Knowledge and technology transfer

Knowledge and Technology Transfer at TIB centres on transforming scientific and technological innovations into practical applications benefiting society.

Knowledge and Technology Transfer at TIB strategically implements the mission statement of the Leibniz Association, systematically integrating the Pact for Research and Innovation. Fostering multidisciplinary collaboration, TIB meaningfully contributes to national, European and international networks, actively engaging stakeholders from business, politics, science and society. Thus, TIB’s technology transfer implements diverse methodologies to develop and exchange knowledge in a plethora of specialist areas, facilitating interfaces for international exchange and collaboration. Tech transfer’s domains of activity encompass communication and commercialisation of research results in business, politics and society, provision of consulting for specific interest groups, reinforcing the application and transfer of scientific knowledge.

Politics

TIB contributes its expertise to committees and working groups and provides advice to policy-makers on domains such as AI,  knowledge graphs, semantic technologies and open science, thus hands-on supporting the digitalisation of diverse industry sectors. Moreover, TIB actively supports the goals of Germany’s federal and state governments within the framework of the Pact for Research & Innovation, as well as initiatives such as the Excellence Strategy and the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).

Our activities - a selection:

  • Member of the German Council for Scientific Information Infrastructures (Professor Dr Sören Auer)
  • Member of the “Open Science/Open Access” committee of experts of the State Ministry of Science and Cultural Affairs of Saxony (Professor Dr Sören Auer)
  • German Council of Science and Humanities: evaluation of the higher education system in the Federal State of Brandenburg
  • Consultation of the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence in the German Bundestag
  • Collaboration in Leibniz Strategy Forums such as Open Science, Technological Sovereignty, and Digital Transformation
  • Science meets Parliament: participation in formats such as Leibniz in the Bundestag and Leibniz in the State Parliament of Lower Saxony
  • Participation in delegations, delegation visits (Deutscher Frühling in Estonia) and ministerial tours (Great Britain, Finland and Estonia) for the development and strengthening of collaboration at home and abroad
  • Participation in series of events organised by the Leibniz Association and various ministries

Library community

TIB uses its leading role in the library community to actively support the digital transformation of the information infrastructure. Our initiation and development of open digital formats creates platforms for discourse with other stakeholders in society. Moreover, TIB is constantly developing its synergies within the Leibniz Association & with non-university institutions.

The TIB's extensive and heterogeneous data stock and the needs of users give rise to application-related research questions that are being researched by the VA in the areas of digital libraries, research data and media archives and databases.

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Science

TIB is considered one of the most influential scientific instances both in Lower Saxony and Germany-wide. Given this influential position, TIB hosts many international conferences, specialist forums and workshops, providing opportunities for networking and information sharing within the scientific community all over Germany and Europe.

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Society

TIB maintains an intensive and continuous dialogue with society in the context of current challenges, such as the digital transformation in science and other areas. TIB conducts intensive dialogue work with members of the society, enables citizens to participate in citizen science projects and presents its research activities at public and international exhibitions. TIB is tackling big social challenges by utilizing its research results, acquired knowledge and ideas.

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Business and industry

Advancing the digitalisation in diverse domains,TIB fosters research and industry collaboration at regional, national, European and international levels.This is achieved by project acquisition, development of innovative digital tools, infrastructures and platforms, while also offering counselling and coaching to promote sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship. Moreover, TIB and the L3S Research Center of LUH combine research and technology competencies in the domains of big data analytics, machine learning and semantics, expanding TIB’s project portfolio and provision of scientific and technical services for third parties.

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Media and public

TIB provides media representatives and multipliers as well as interested parties with information and helps them to form an opinion on current developments, whereby it is involved in multilateral contexts and global networks.

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Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship

With its specific know-how, the TIB makes a significant contribution to the continuous optimisation of innovation capability and thus also to complementing the Leibniz Citizen Science strategy. In the field of entrepreneurship, the TIB is dedicated to technology-based, growth-orientated spin-offs and advises prospective founders with unique and sustainable business ideas. The TIB has specialised in particular in innovation in technology management.

At TIB, we are committed to nurturing the next generation of data-driven entrepreneurs through our comprehensive mentoring and consulting services. We specialize in the incubation and acceleration of startups and SMEs, providing tailored support to meet the unique needs of technical and data-focused entrepreneurs.

By comprehending the specific challenges and opportunities faced by each entrepreneur, we offer customized mentoring and consulting, helping entrepreneurs develop essential skills such as crafting robust business models, effective customer acquisition strategies, and impactful marketing plans. Our consulting services further enhance this support by offering strategic insights and practical solutions to drive business growth. Through our dedicated efforts, we empower entrepreneurs, researchers and project partners to transform their innovative ideas into successful, data-driven enterprises, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of technological advancement and entrepreneurial success.

 

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Services and consulting offered by the TIB

We provide the following scientific or technical services to third parties for a fee, based on our own knowledge or using our own infrastructure.

With its recording service, the TIB offers a comprehensive package from recording and live streaming to publication in accordance with scientific standards in the AV portal or on a platform of your choice. This service is aimed at conference organizers from science and industry who would like to have their conferences recorded and make them available for the community. We also support scientific institutions and researchers in making their work accessible to a wider audience. In addition to conference recordings, we produce Infoclips and Video Abstracts.

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The TIB offers various service components in the context of digital long-term archiving, depending on the source material, which take into account the licensing, organisational and technical requirements for the materials. We give you Advice and support on all data structuring issues and on Creation of a uniform data schema also for further use in own systems. With the Digital Preservation-as-a-Service we offer a Full-service for all those who cannot or do not want to carry out long-term archiving themselves

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VIVO is an open source software and ontology for representing science. We support you in implementing this Linked Data-based research information system at your institution, including mapping data to the VIVO ontology and the VIVO core dataset research extension, developing local ontologies for research information, and integrating controlled vocabularies. Test deployment of current VIVO systems can take place on TIB's own systems or on third-party systems.

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Book Sprints are a method of agile knowledge generation and knowledge transfer. The TIB –has several years of experience with the successful implementation and support of Book Sprints. We can help with the systematic conversion of individual expert knowledge into structured knowledge – in the form of digital or printed manuals, documentations or teaching/learning materials.

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The Knowledge and Technology Transfer Unit

The Knowledge and Technology Transfer Unit enriches transfer activities with transdisciplinary approaches for the sustainable uptake of research and innovation. Through customised services and consulting portfolio, transfer at TIB promotes, supports and networks scientists, thus facilitating scientific spin-offs, project acquisition and implementation.

Alexandra Garatzogianni

Alexandra Garatzogianni

Head of Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Coordinator of EU Projects

Email: alexandra.garatzogiannitibeu
Phone: +49 511 762-14694

Michael Fribus

Project Manager, Business Developer and Communications Manager for EU-funded projects

E-Mail: michael.fribustibeu

Phone: +49 511 762-14054

Knowledge and technology transfer in the Leibniz Association

The Leibniz Association supports the activities of its institutions – through its Start-Up Advisory Service, the Leibniz Transfer funding programme within the Leibniz Competition, instruments for strategic networking, the Leibniz Research Alliances and Leibniz ScienceCampi, and a range of discourse formats.

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Knowledge and technology transfer at Leibniz University Hannover

uni transfer supports the cooperation between university and industry in the domains of knowledge and technology transfer and is the contact point for companies and scientists.

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