Insights into the three-day Bootcamp from the perspective of the start-up SimBricks and how they develop their future science-based company.

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, plans and goals. Different personalities, opportunities and challenges. No two entrepreneurial paths are the same. But they all have the same goal: To work on their foundation with passion and commitment. And it is precisely this goal that Partha Ghosh, Valentina Rodriguez Pasmino and Kamil Adamczewski have now achieved. We would like to cong

Inside the Bootcamp: How future sciencepreneurs win a spot in Phase 1 After submitting a promising application, selected start-ups enter a three-day Bootcamp where their ideas are challenged, refined, and tested from every angle. But only those that convince the expert jury on the third day of the Bootcamp make it to Phase 1. Curious how the decision gets made? Get an interesting glimpse into the process from a jury member’s perspective. As an expert in the innovation of busi

Basic research at the highest level and its transfer into practical applications are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, scientific excellence and commercial success often go hand in hand, as many Nobel Prize winners from Max Planck Institutes who are involved in business start-ups or innovations have shown. This is precisely where we want to pick up and use MAX!mize to encourage and enable researchers at the Max Planck Institutes to successfully transfer their scientifi

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 now in Phase 1. If you are also thinking about applying for our start-up incubator with your research-based start-up idea, you are welcome to do so from 17th of March until 7th of July, where the application window for Batch #6 opens. We collected three top things for aspiring future Max Planck founders to do right now. Rights: Kimberly Kob

Two members of the start-up team FlyVoTech, Guy Reeves and Dušica Briševac. Yellow post-it notes labeled with thick black felt-tip pen writings glide across the table. The words "Drosophila," "contract company," and "drug discovery" catch the eye. Dušica Briševac is organizing notes into different piles labeled "essential," "nice to have," and "negative." The 35-year-old postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, is currently faced with the task of prioritizin

The start-up project QuantiLight of Max Planck Institute for Medical Research is developing home blood tests. To pave the way for a potential spin-off, the two "founders-to-be" Estelle Bonedeau and Corentin Gondrand, have been participating in the MAX!mize start-up incubation program since 2022. Blood tests play an essential role for many people One example is chronic diseases that require daily medication. Here, regular examinations of the medication level are necessary. So-

The start-up team sci-an is working on a unified scientific ecosystem. Their goal is to modernize scientific communication and networking by making it more inclusive, efficient, and sustainable. The Idea of sci-an The key to a modern scientific communiation and networking is the combination of virtual conferencing, hybrid discussion, and a peer-based content review system within the same online platform. First Participants in Batch #1 Phase 1 The four scientists Jacob, Oliver