Technology and Innovation Consultant

The innovation consultant's services are aimed at companies that are planning their own research and development activities and want to protect inventions or bring their innovations to market.

The tasks of the technology and innovation consultant are:

• Promoting and facilitating cooperation between universities, non-university research institute and in particular, knowledge-based and innovative companies in the state.

• Facilitating access to the regional research community.

• Initiation, support services, and thus increase in research and development cooperation.

• Stimulating knowledge exchange within existing networks, coordinating joint activities, and effectively exploiting research results.

• Early establishment and mediation of contacts with junior academic staff.

• Contact persons, contact mediators from companies to professors, academic staff, and students of universities, and equally, acquisition of business contacts for university employees.

The position of technology and innovation consultant at Wismar University of Applied Sciences, in cooperation with the Schwerin Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Schwerin Chamber of Crafts, is funded in part by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).