With more than 1,500 participants, 100 national and international start-ups, 30 top investors, and several industry-leading corporate partners in Aachen, ATEC23 is not just the top event of the STARTUP WEEK AACHEN, but also the flagship event for innovation in the tri-state region of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

The story of Elevear illuminates the inspiring journey of excellent researchers becoming revolutionary entrepreneurs and of innovative IP becoming life-changing innovation with impact.

Artificial Intelligence is a potent instrument to increase efficiency and sustainability in the mobility sector.

Prototyping application-oriented solutions to real problems

The start-up from Baesweiler has been acquired by US branch expert Scientific Bioprocessing

4 big business speakers, including 2 KAM partners, talk about their failures 

Social Entrepreneurship from Aachen in action for international educational justice.

In times like these, innovative ideas and technological progress are more important than ever. Therefore, it is of vital importance to make sure that outstanding research results find their way into Society.

Upon establishing a key account at RWTH Innovation in November 2020, the VOSS Group is now en route to intensify their innovative research and development projects in Aachen within a strategic partnership with RWTH Aachen University.

Today, embedded systems – computer chips controlling other electronic or mechanical devices – run every part of our daily lives. We as customers rely on these systems being thoroughly tested and approved – no matter if we are boarding a plane, driving a car, or using any other industrial product.  

RWTH Aachen University and the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK Aachen) have joined forces to take the Aachen-based start-up to the next level.

Like everything this year, the annual get-together of Siemens and RWTH Aachen University was a bit different than usual. For safety reasons, we held a virtual conference but at least some of our speakers and the moderator were able to join us in our little “studio”.

Der Collective Incubator bezieht ab September 2021 über 4.000qm mit allein 1.000qm Werkstattfläche für Prototyping.

What do founder, investor, author and TV personality Frank Thelen, triathlete, Olympic champion and Ironman record holder Jan Frodeno, and NRW Minister for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitisation and Energy Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart have in common?

The partnership agreement was signed by the Vice-Rector for Industry and Business Relations of RWTH Aachen University and Managing Director of RWTH Innovation GmbH, Professor Malte Brettel, and the Managing Director of German Entrepreneurship GmbH, Matthias Notz.

When choosing a location for founding a start-up, opting for one of the most innovative and fastest growing regions in Europe is not only natural, but also critical to the success of the company. For international entrepreneurs, starting a business in the Aachen region just got easier.

For an initial period of one year, a contract has been signed with five companies of the Saint-Gobain Group, the Saint-Gobain Weber GmbH, the SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER G+H AG, the Saint-Gobain Rigips GmbH as well as with NOVA by Saint-Gobain and Saint-Gobain Research Germany. Prior to this, RWTH Aachen and the French business group Saint-Gobain had already collaborated on various projects. The new strategic partnership aims to intensify the existing cooperation and to merge synergies. Within the new key account partnership, the RWTH Innovation GmbH will support the company as a central scientific transfer unit at the university and beyond.

Our ESC.NRW partner fab Lab of RWTH Aachen University makes its 3D printers, laser cutters and other digital production machines available for the rapid production of urgently needed parts in the medical sector.

Which skill-set do the “Engineers of the Future” need? Will they be multidisciplinary jacks-of-all-trades? Or software specialists using every modeling, simulation and construction program on the planet? During an exploratory workshop, experts from Ford, Siemens and RWTH Aachen University sat together to discuss the challenges and opportunities that lie within the work of an engineer and the implications those developments have on the educational system.

Every year, the RWTH Innovation Award is given to particularly innovative ideas from the RWTH Aachen University environment. The aim of the award is to anchor the idea of innovation and entrepreneurship throughout the university in order to support good ideas from research to market entry. Three outstanding projects are honoured by a top-class jury.

If you’ve spent the last ten years working to initiate change in your own industry with full conviction, it can happen that you evolve from intrapreneur or “internal weirdo” to full-fledged entrepreneur.

RWTH Innovation was able to win the Aachen-based company Utimaco GmbH as a new key account partner. Utimaco has been offering professional IT security solutions worldwide since 1983. Their products protect people all over the world from terrorism and organized crime and secure private and sensitive data from theft or misuse.

How to connect corporates with university start-ups? – This was the motto of this year's Aachen Technology and Entrepreneurship Conference (atec) which took place on October 28, 2019. Hosted by RWTH Innovation in partnership with digitalHUB Aachen, the atec is the biggest entrepreneurship conference in the region. For the 9th time, corporates, investors, founders, researcher and students gathered to benefit from this platform for exchange, discussions and networking with the focus on entrepreneurship.

Together with her research team, Valentine recently won the Innovation Award of the State of NRW in the category "Young Talent" for her newly developed technology in the field of medical technology, as well as the AC2 Business Plan Competition of the Gründerregion Aachen. Since she was 14, Valentine has dreamed of founding her own company... With her start-up project PerAGraft, she is now on the threshold of realising this vision. Reason enough to exchange ideas with her about her future plans...

Even though Aachen is famous for its rainy days, participants were bathing in the sun on this year’s Siemens Day in front of the SuperC, one of the central buildings of the RWTH Campus.

Innovative semantic software that understands what you actually mean? This is not a future vision any more, thanks to Cognesys GmbH – an RWTH spin-off that won in the category innovation 2019. Congrats!

Generating future-relevant research results in the shortest possible time is the aim of the joint seed funding initiative between Ford and RWTH Aachen University Chair for Digital Additive Production DAP. In Aachen's Photonics Cluster, eight DAP scientists introduced their project ideas from various Additive Manufacturing areas to Ford employees in a casual atmosphere.

“Our vision is to establish a new and integrated way of enabling innovation and start-ups in the RWTH Aachen ecosphere” said Bram Wijlands, Managing Director of RWTH Innovation GmbH after the announcement of the "Exzellenz Start-up Center.NRW".

To achieve this goal, RWTH Aachen University will be funded by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitization and Energy until 2024. The goal is to establish Europe's largest fully integrated tech incubator powered by RWTH Innovation.

We are looking forward to work together with our future entrepreneurs and partners!

To provide effective access and a better overview of RWTH Aachen University's complex R&D landscape, we were able to win over Total as the new contract partner of RWTH Innovation and as RWTH Aachen University's strategic partner. Total is one of the world's largest companies in the energy sector. As part of existing and planned projects at RWTH Aachen University, the research will be focused on the topics of fuels, lubricants, energy storage and alternative energies.

Through the panes of the all-glass atrium, the 80 invited guests could glance into the buzz of the neighboring research laboratories – filled with whirring 3D printers and an e-car charger prototype. But no one needed to set their foot into the labs to learn what was going on – because the colorful MindSphere dashboards directly in front of the audience showed every detail of their operation: The magic of the Internet of Things could be felt strongly on this opening day of the Siemens MindSphere Lounge at RWTH Aachen University.