News : TU Dresden, TUDAG and SpinLab launch new high-tech accelerator in Dresden

Sax­ony’s Minis­ter of Eco­no­mic Affairs Mar­tin Dulig today pre­sen­ted the foun­ders of the new Dres­den acce­le­ra­tor »Exci­teLab« with a fun­ding decis­ion amoun­ting to almost 763,000 euros. Last year, the Saxon cabi­net pas­sed the »Acce­le­ra­tors fun­ding gui­de­line«, a uni­que offer to streng­then the start-up land­scape in Saxony.

Minis­ter of Eco­no­mic Affairs Mar­tin Dulig »The con­crete coope­ra­tion bet­ween part­ners from the more tech­ni­cally ori­en­ted Dres­den and the entre­pre­neu­ri­ally ori­en­ted Leip­zig is a stroke of luck for Sax­ony. This coope­ra­tion enables enorm­ous synergies.«

Exci­teL­a­b’s pro­gram focu­ses on key tech­no­lo­gies such as the Inter­net of Things, semi­con­duc­tors, robo­tics, sen­sors, semi­con­duc­tors and quan­tum tech­no­logy. Start-up teams receive indi­vi­dual sup­port and access to glo­bal com­pa­nies and inves­tors. Exci­teLab builds on the pro­ven exper­tise of Leip­zi­g’s Spin­Lab, which was recently named one of Euro­pe’s lea­ding start-up cen­ters by the Finan­cial Times and Sta­tista. The aim is to estab­lish Dres­den as a lea­ding Euro­pean metro­po­lis for high-tech start-ups and to streng­then the IP trans­fer and spin-off acti­vi­ties of TU Dresden.

On the way to becoming Europe’s leading high-tech location

The com­bi­na­tion of inno­va­tive rese­arch and fast-gro­wing indus­try attracts inter­na­tio­nal com­pa­nies and start-ups from various sec­tors to Dresden.
This is demons­tra­ted, for exam­ple, by Infi­ne­on’s invest­ments, the new buil­ding for the tech­no­logy group Jen­op­tik and the plan­ned major pro­ject for the relo­ca­tion of TSMC.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Pink­wart, Direc­tor TUD|excite: »With Exci­teLab, a top-class acce­le­ra­tor is being laun­ched in Dres­den. TU Dres­den and the Leip­zig Spin­Lab are alre­ady among the lea­ding insti­tu­ti­ons of their kind in Europe and, with the invol­vement of TUDAG, will spe­ci­fi­cally streng­then their poten­tial in the field of high-tech start-ups in the future through cooperation.«

Udo Wer­ner, CEO of TU Dres­den Akti­en­ge­sell­schaft (TUDAG): »As a long-stan­ding spin-off part­ner of TUD, we are loo­king for­ward to the inten­si­fied coope­ra­tion with TUD|excite. Our joint ven­ture with the multi-award-win­ning Spin­Lab can and will deve­lop into an excel­lent engine for tech­no­logy trans­fer in Dresden.«

Eric Weber, foun­der and mana­ging direc­tor of Spin­Lab: »With Exci­teLab at the lea­ding Euro­pean microelec­tro­nics loca­tion Dres­den, we are expan­ding our the­ma­tic coverage to new, pro­mi­sing areas. Our regu­lar ran­king as one of the lea­ding startup sup­port­ers in Europe shows that the approach of spe­cia­li­zed pro­grams in sui­ta­ble loca­ti­ons based on a pro­ven prin­ci­ple is extre­mely successful.«

Spin­Lab Mana­ging Direc­tor Mar­cus Haber­stroh: »With Exci­teLab, we are crea­ting ano­ther important buil­ding block in the inno­va­tion eco­sys­tem of our Free State, in which Saxon metho­do­lo­gi­cal, pro­ce­du­ral and invest­ment exper­tise is com­bi­ned at a level never seen before in the high-tech sector.«

The six-month acce­le­ra­tor pro­gram starts for the first time in Octo­ber. Appli­ca­ti­ons are pos­si­ble from now until August 27, 2024.

In the photo: from left to right: Dr. Mar­cus Haber­stroh (Spin­Lab), Dr. Eric Weber (Spin­Lab), Alex­an­der Türpe (Exci­teLab), Mar­tin Duhlig, Udo Wer­ner (TUDAG TU Dres­den Akti­en­ge­sell­schaft) and Prof. Dr. Andreas Pink­wart (TUD|excite).

Photo copy­right: ExciteLab