As the central point of transfer of technology and knowledge in the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg, TuTech Innovation GmbH (TuTech) offers a wide variety of services to support innovation, besides being responsible for initiating and managing cooperation projects between academia and industry.

Working together with our sister company Hamburg Innovation GmbH and all of Hamburg’s institutions of higher education, TuTech views itself as the connecting link between business, academia and politics. TuTech offers support in the formation of regional and technology oriented clusters.

The scope of services offered by TuTech includes: consultancy on the evaluation, launch and marketing of new technologies and products; acquisition of grants and public funding; patent exploitation and usage; assistance in the search for suitable partners; project management support, as well as a range of offers for customised staff qualification.

Services are provided irrespective of whether you are a one-person operation, a business start-up, a small or medium sized enterprise, or a fully fledged corporate group. In addition to being able to support assessment of the state of the art and potential of a technology, we also provide consultancy on economic aspects such as cost and market analysis.

The services we provide are characterised by a very high degree of flexibility and an ability to tailor what we do to the needs of the client. Services range from the practical – finding funding – to the strategic – giving policy advice. We often work in cross-functional teams.

We are organised in the following core service departments:

• R&D collaboration

• International cooperation & EU office

• Social media & open innovation

• Patenting & licensing

• Business start-ups & innovation funding

• Training & continuing professional development

• Management & services

We are not too proud to recommend other service providers if we think they are the best option. We have a very extensive European and international network.

In association with their scientific partners, TuTech Innovation and Hamburg Innovation are especially active in the following fields: 

• biotechnology
• civil engineering
• information and communication technologies
• system technology
• medical engineering
• physical technologies
• materials technology
• production and manufacturing technology
• aviation
• maritime technologies
• transport and logistics
• applied sciences
• economics and social sciences
• environmental technologies
• process engineering and energy technology

TuTech’s offices provide an open and friendly working space, not only for our own staff but also for many start-up companies that use TuTech as an incubator.

We provide good facilities with full service support for organising and hosting workshops, in-house exhibitions and small conferences. We also have the TuTech INNOVATIONLOUNGE for meetings of a more exclusive nature.

TuTech acts as a Business Incubator for the starting phase of technology-orientated enterprises. With the aid of R&D-results and the technological know-how of its scientific partners, TuTech puts the various business ideas into commercial effect. Successful business fields are spun off into independence, in which case TuTech participates during the seed phase. 

In addition to this, TuTech meets all requirements that founders of innovative new businesses, in particular, could have with regard to a technology centre, for instance:

• Facilities and infrastructure
• Office communication and IT-services
• Purchasing and bookkeeping services
• Conference and congress facilities
• Telephone, postal and dispatch services

Our business model is to be self-sustaining and supportive of people and processes that underpin the economy. We think of ourselves as a private company with a public mission. We receive little direct public funding, but use what opportunities there are to maintain our economic viability. This means we can operate independently of any specific political or private interest.

TuTech has a core staff of about 50 and a turnover of €16 million. The company was founded in 1992.

TuTech comprises people with many different sets of skills who are used to working as individual consultants and in teams to provide tailor-made support. Our work on many different assignments means we are very well networked both as individuals and as an organisation.

TuTech’s home base is Hamburg University of Technology, for which we provide continuous support, especially for research contracts with industry and European-funded projects.

We also serve many external clients in the private and public sectors in Hamburg and further afield. These include multinationals, small companies (both mature and start-ups), regional, national and European institutions, NGOs, public and private research organisations and, not least, other universities.

TuTech has an exclusive cooperation agreement with the following organisations in the fields of technology transfer and contract research:

If your university is interested in cooperating with TuTech, please contact us.