WWU-Excellence Start-Up Center NRW

The Rector of the University of Münster, Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels, successfully defended the proposal for a WWU-Excellence Start-Up Center NRW in front of a high ranking jury. The University of Münster is one of six – along with Aachen, Bochum, Dortmund, Köln, and Paderborn – which will receive a total of 150 Million Euro over the next five years to support the development of a start-up friendly “ecosystem”. The money is meant to expand existing support and service units of the university and to develop new ones. The idea is to create an environment that is more open to innovation and that offers better conditions for the transfer of promising ideas from university to industry and society by the creation of spin-off companies. The business start-up support of the Innovation Office is part of the project, which is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Thorsten Wiesel, Marketing Center Münster at the School of Business and Economics, University of Münster.