Every year, RWTH Aachen University honors particularly innovative ideas emerging from the university’s environment. The Innovation Award is given to inventors and researchers with innovative ideas and technologies, while the Spin-off Awardhonors founded start-ups. The winners can officially present themselves with this award, which is gaining more and more importance beyond the borders of Aachen.
Innovation Award
The Innovation Award is aimed at researchers, students, and employees of RWTH Aachen University or the Jülich Research Centre who contribute to the innovation and appeal of the Aachen region with their ideas. The goal is to embed the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship across the university, to support and bring to market good ideas from research that have societal benefits. The ideas are evaluated based on the degree of technological innovation, the societal relevance of the technology field or application area, the technological maturity, development plan, market potential, and overall impression.
The Spin-off Award is the only official award for outstanding spin-offs at RWTH Aachen University. With this award, we give our spin-offs the opportunity to advertise with reference to RWTH Aachen University and thus to successfully start into the time after the foundation. The application is open to all spin-offs from RWTH Aachen University that are already formally founded at the time of application. At the same time, the year of foundation may not be more than two years ago. The award winners will be listed on the RWTH Aachen University website, making them easy to find, for example, for potential business partners.
