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The Center for Entrepreneurship & Transfer (CET) at TU Dortmund University supports and accompanies start-ups in all phases, offers courses and workshops on entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation, and encourages the transfer of technology and knowledge from science to practice. 

The foundation for today's start-up support structures at TU Dortmund University was laid in 2012, when we secured funding for the German government's “EXIST Start-up Culture: The Start-up University” program. With this initial funding, we established the “tu>startup” start-up initiative and systematically anchored start-up support in the university's structures. Together with other milestones such as the Entrepreneurship School at the Faculty of Economics, a noticeable start-up culture subsequently developed on campus.

Another decisive step on our path to excellence was the founding of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Transfer (CET). With this unique university-wide institution, we laid the foundation for long-term successful start-up support in 2017. Since then, the CET has been pooling and managing all of the university's start-up and transfer activities, bringing together science, service, and administration under one roof.

Two years after its founding, the CET was awarded the rating “excellent”: at the beginning of 2019, it was approved as an Excellence Start-up Center (ESC) by the NRW Ministry of Economic Affairs. The associated funding of 14.2 million euros over a period of five years creates ideal conditions for further expanding our activities.

The CET - First point of contact for start-up and transfer: This brochure provides you with a quick overview of the CET's services.

Do you feel like founding a company? We will help you! The CET start-up consulting presents its service portfolio.

Room for good ideas: Get to know our infrastructure!

Innovation meets experience: We connect you with important players in the region. Find out how in this flyer.

Sparking idea? Patent it now! The CET advises you on questions concerning patents and industrial property rights.

Start-up programs: In the programs of the CET, start-ups are intensively trained and accompanied.