Are you hoping to start up your own technology-oriented company?

As we guide you through the process of starting up your own business, our intensive consultancy service will provide you with individual, project-related knowledge in fields relating to start-ups and business.

Through our range of workshops and seminars, you can also expand your personal knowledge in the core subjects of research exploitation and early start-up phases.

The range of seminars offered at business plan competitions that we either help to organise (adventureX) or are regional partner for (Best of Biotech, Science4Life) will assist you, by means of valuable workshops, as you devise your written business concept. Workshop topics include industrial property rights, company planning, marketing, law and financial planning.

Collective dates can be found here.

- As a scientist, are you interested in additional, comprehensive business training (e.g. business administration, general management, quality management)?

If so, we will be happy to help you choose the right product. In 2006/07 our training partner, the MCI (Management Center Innsbruck), is offering the following courses and seminars:

Management seminars at MCI

Executive education at MCI

As a researcher, would you also like to consider the option in the future of exploiting your research results commercially?

If so, we have the right portfolio of workshops for you. For example, you will receive information about what you need to bear in mind with regard to industrial property rights (e.g. patents).

Or what you need to pay attention to as early as the actual achievement of scientific results if you want to be successful at research exploitation. Sample subjects include: quality management requirements in medical engineering and biotechnology (Magic Gs = GMP, GLP, GCP).

Collective dates can be found here.

Are you a student at one of the universities in Innsbruck, and are you already thinking about the issue of self-employment as you follow your degree course? Would you like to receive further training for this?

If so, the optional "ABC of starting your own business" course will be of interest to you. This is a course aimed at all students, whatever subject they are majoring in, offered in collaboration with the Institute for General Management, Tourism and Service Economics of Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck.

During the seminar, entrepreneurial thinking and action is stimulated and practised, and students also receive training in key qualifications. Those who complete the seminar will be in a position to draft business plans on their own; they will have acquired knowledge on funding start-ups; they will be informed about key institutions for starting their own business; they will have worked on case studies of successful start-ups; and they will have had discussions with new entrepreneurs with an academic background.

If you have any questions relating to the optional course, please contact Dr. Sandra Rothenberger from the Institute for General Management (office hours: Mon. 10am - midday, Sandra.Rothenberger@uibk.ac.at) or Dipl.-Vw. Bettina Specht at CAST specht@cast-tyrol.com)