Max Planck Innovation
As the central technology transfer company of the Max Planck Society, Max Planck Innovation has helped bridge the gap between science and industry since 1970. We advise and support scientists of the Max Planck Society in the assessment of inventions and filing of patents. We also market patents and technologies to industry, while coaching founders on how to build up new companies based on the research results of the Max Planck Society.
Track record
Since our foundation, we have accompanied over 5,100 inventions and concluded more than 3,100 commercial contracts. Since 1990, 200 newly founded companies (spin-offs) have emerged from the Max Planck Society. Max Planck Innovation advised the vast majority of them. The total revenue for the inventors, the Max Planck Institutes, and the Max Planck Society currently amounts to around 570 million euros. On average, 140 new invention disclosures, as well as 80 patent applications, are added each year.
This record makes Max Planck Innovation one of the world’s leading technology transfer institutions.
International Network
Max Planck Innovation has been in business for about 50 years. During this time, it has shaped technology transfer substantially. We have established a strong network within the scientific community and industry, comprising professional investors, lawyers, patent attorneys and tax consultants, as well as scientific experts and company representatives from various sectors of industry. We have closed contracts with more than 200 different companies and negotiated seed funding rounds for spin-offs from the Max Planck Society with more than 35 investors.
Our experience and contacts are the fundamental components of our success. We use them to provide optimal support for the scientists and company founders of the Max Planck Institutes, but also to contribute to political debate. In this respect Max Planck Innovation has contributed to novel concepts of the federal government in order to improve the innovation strength of Germany.
Likewise, we are in close contact with other technology transfer institutions, exchanging ideas for the development of professional standards and advancing novel instruments for technology transfer – both at national and international level – for example, as members of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), the Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP), the Licensing Executives Society (LES), and TransferAllianz.