WIUS is involved in various ways in the field of entrepreneurship and aims to promote a culture of start-ups within the university environment and among students. Below is a list of selected initiatives in which we are promoting funders in the context of the software- and data-intensive business.
Unterstützung von Existenzgründungen aus der Wissenschaft (EXIST)
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In close cooperation with the Technology Transfer Initiative (TTI) GmbH at the University of Stuttgart, the chair supports students who are interested in and willing to start their own business on their way to self-employment. In this context, we specialise in mentoring within the framework of the so-called EXIST start-up grant from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
- Students at the University of Stuttgart who are interested in starting their own business are welcome to contact Dr Dimitri Petrik or Prof. Georg Herzwurm by email or telephone to obtain further information about possible support within the framework of an EXIST application.
Courses offered in the field of intrapreneurship
The chair provides specific teaching content on start-up management for IT companies within the Business Administration (M.Sc.) and Business Informatics (M.Sc.) degree programmes at the University of Stuttgart with the course Management of IT Companies.
Changing events on the topic of start-up management
WIUS organises and supports various events on the topic of start-up management in the region.
Research projects with industry partners in the context of entrepreneurship
Cooperation with ChargeIQ
- We are currently cooperating with the mobility start-up ChargeIQ. Prof. Georg Herzwurm and Dr. Dimitri Petrik successfully guided the company through the start-up phase as part of the Exist funding programme and subsequently successfully secured several funding projects together.
- ChargeIQ's value proposition is to make charging stations ‘smart’ by turning them into digital platforms. With the help of open hardware and software, an IoT platform with an app store concept was created to provide e-mobility users with digital services in the context of e-mobility and intelligent charging processes in an innovative and intuitive way.
- The ‘VERENA’ project was launched as part of the current funding programme under the Baden-Württemberg innovation funding guideline ‘Invest BW’. The ‘VERENA’ innovation project is developing an IoT platform for the manufacturer-independent connection of software products to charging stations in order to network the energy system with the charging infrastructure. By integrating IoT technology, charging stations can be expanded independently and used more efficiently to meet various requirements. As part of the project, a research article was presented at the 30th IEEE ICE Conference in Madeira.
Cooperation with MatchRiderGO
- We also cooperate with the young company Match Rider. The product of the same name (MatchRiderGO) is a new dynamic carpooling portal on the Internet, which aims to make offering and searching for carpools as easy as possible with the help of a driver-oriented approach.