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Are you curious about insights from our start-up teams?
Want to learn more about our Max Planck incubation program
from start-ups that have already taken part?
Are you looking for ideas, inspiration and support
to develop your company based on your research?
Then our blog is the perfect place for you!
The Power of Networking & Stakeholder Management: Your Key to Start-up Success
Whether you're looking for your first investor, a trusted advisor, or even your future co-founder – your network can be the difference between potential and progress. At MAX!mize, we help you tap into an exclusive community and learn how to manage your stakeholders.
Start-up Mindset Before Masterplan: The FlyVoTech Story
This start-up journey shows that you don't necessarily need a perfect idea or a business plan to start a company - curiosity, courage and the willingness to break new ground are much more important.
What started as a postdoc initiative within the Max Planck Society grew into a start-up team with a clear vision, practical support from the MAX!mize incubator and a mission to transfer scientific knowledge into the real world.
Batch #5: What innovations are driven by our start-up teams?
Discover what research-based topics are driven by our Max Planck start-ups in Batch #5. From deep tech to human sciences, each team is working on innovations that have the potential to shape our future.
Easy-to-use tools for advanced gene editing: Meet CRISPR Plug and Play
The Max Planck start-up project CRISPR Plug & Play, participating in the start-up incubation program MAX!mize, develops easy-to-use tools for advanced gene editing.
How to start-up? Your start-up guide from idea to successful business!
From idea and teambuildung to business model and branding - step by step to your science-based start-up.
Revolutionizing hardware development: Meet SimBricks & gain first-hand Bootcamp insights
Insights into the three-day Bootcamp from the perspective of the start-up SimBricks and how they develop their future science-based company.
Revolutionizing computer graphics with AI: Meet NeurCG
The world of start-ups is diverse. And so are our participants in the MAX!mize incubation program. There is a wide variety of concepts,...
Three possible questions to find out if you have an innovative business model
Inside the Bootcamp: How future sciencepreneurs win a spot in Phase 1 After submitting a promising application, selected start-ups enter...
Benefits of scientists deciding to become entrepreneurs 🚀
Basic research at the highest level and its transfer into practical applications are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, scientific...
Top 3 things aspiring Max Planck founders should do before the application window closes
In 2025, two new batches will start. Batch #5 has already kicked-off. A total of 10 teams were able to convince the Bootcamp jury and are...
Optimizing compound screening with high-throughput scanning in fruit flies: Meet FlyVoTech
Two members of the start-up team FlyVoTech, Guy Reeves and Dušica Briševac. Yellow post-it notes labeled with thick black felt-tip pen...
Developing home blood tests for patients with chronic diseases: Meet QuantiLight
The start-up project QuantiLight of Max Planck Institute for Medical Research is developing home blood tests. To pave the way for a...
Building an unified scientific ecosystem: Meet sci-an
The start-up team sci-an is working on a unified scientific ecosystem. Their goal is to modernize scientific communication and networking...
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