Turning cutting-edge research into a successful business is rarely a straightforward journey. For the team behind C4Value, consisting of Frederike S. Heinen, Maurice Belleflamme, and Jonas Gerber, the challenge extended beyond developing an innovative technology to transforming scientific excellence into a solution with real market impact. Creating Sustainable Value from Renewable Resources C4Value started their journey with a clear mission: to develop scalable catalytic tech

This Max Planck start-up project is tackling a very human challenge: helping vocal musicians and DJs connect better with their audiences.

Anjana Pisharody Unni and Somasundar Arumugam, the founders of SuziTrap, are taking on a tiny but destructive enemy: the spotted wing drosophila.

Ecodylic Science is building a software ecosystem that makes complex behavioral data analysis accessible, scalable, and scientifically powerful.

This team is a prime example of how a simple research solution can ignite a powerful business idea with real-world impact.

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.

The Max Planck start-up project ClearCut Biolabs, participating in the start-up incubation program MAX!mize, develops easy-to-use tools for advanced gene editing.

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

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 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