Crash Test for Ideas

Research to Market Challenge Competition: This Year Organized Jointly by Three Major Berlin Universities and Charité - Universitätsmedizin / Application deadline: May 6, 2018. No 058/2018 from Apr 06, 2018 The ideas competition "Research to Market Challenge" is entering a new round. For the first time, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin are holding the competition together. Members of these universities as well as alumni are invited to submit proposals for ideas for start-ups stemming from their research. Sketches of their ideas and first steps for implementation written on at most three pages may be submitted until May 6, 2018. Prize money totaling 9,000 euros will be awarded in the three categories "Digital"; "Social & Cultural"; and "Life Sciences & Technologies." In each category ten participants or teams will be selected to develop their ideas further with the support of experts in a day-long workshop on business model development. The revised sketches will be submitted and tested by a panel for their innovative content, feasibility, and customer value.