Current events in technology transfer

 
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RESEARCH TO BUSINESS live: Smart Labs of the Future

Wednesday, 16 September 2026, 9:30-16:00
KIT Campus Süd und Nord
© Sandra Göttisheim, KIT

How can research laboratories become more efficient, faster, and better connected? “Smart Lab of the Future” represents a fundamental transformation: automated processes, AI-powered analytics, and data-driven development open up new opportunities to significantly speed up innovation. For industrial companies, access to these technologies is increasingly becoming a decisive competitive factor. KIT combines excellent research with concrete application areas, thereby laying the foundation for successful technology transfer.

Our networking event RESEARCH TO BUSINESS live offers you the opportunity to exchange ideas with KIT researchers about technologies related to self-driving labs and to discuss challenges. Join us for a tour of five labs at KIT that are helping to shape the future of automated, digitized laboratories, particularly in materials development. The spectrum ranges from materials synthesis and characterization to coating and sample transport, supported by machine learning.

Organizer
Innovations- und Relationsmanagement (IRM)
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Mail: neuland does-not-exist.kit edu
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Event formats in technology transfer

Meet researchers in their laboratories, talk to companies, learn more about technology transfer - we warmly welcome you to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The Technology Transfer team and our partners offer companies, KIT employees and all interested parties exciting insights into the technology of tomorrow and opportunities for transfer.

Open events

NEULAND Innovationstag KIT
NEULAND Innovationstag am KIT
RESEARCH TO BUSINESS LIVE KIT
RESEARCH TO BUSINESS Live
TRIANGEL Wissenswoche KIT
Wissenswoche am TRIANGEL Transfer I Kultur I Raum

NEULAND Innovation Day

The NEULAND Innovation Day is KIT's event dedicated to the topics of innovation, transfer, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. Students, academic staff, professors and start-up projects meet industry and investors here to get to know each other, launch joint projects and discover potential for a sustainable future. More

RESEARCH TO BUSINESS LIVE

As part of the RESEARCH TO BUSINESS live event series, industrial companies are given an insight into individual institutes or research topics. In half-day workshops, scientific employees present the current status of their research and open their laboratories. The events bring science and business into direct contact with each other and provide an initial basis for future cooperation.

Knowledge Weeks of TRIANGEL Transfer I Culture I Space

At the WISSENSWOCHEN organized by our partner TRIANGEL Transfer I Culture I Space, changing key topics are explored from a wide variety of perspectives over the course of a week. With creative formats and
target group-specific approaches, current discourses can be experienced and understood by everyone. From light fare at lunchtime to activating hands-on formats and workshops to in-depth discussions in the evening - the WISSENSWOCHE concept offers a wide range of opportunities to discover and explore a topic. More

 

Events for employees

Bridge the Gap

Why is it worth getting in touch with business and society, what are the challenges and how can I get started? These and other questions are answered by various teams from the Innovation and Relations Management service unit at KIT's internal Bridge the Gap format. Here, scientific employees learn more about the possibilities, opportunities and framework conditions of knowledge and technology transfer.

IP-Talk at the Institute

Would you like more basic knowledge on how to deal with intellectual property, for example inventions, patents or software at KIT, and how to license it out? Then get in touch with us!  The experts in Intellectual Property Management will be happy to answer your questions in in-house seminars for academic staff at your institute. Inquiries

Marketplace for new KIT employees

The Innovation and Relations Management service unit presents its services and offers for employees at KIT's Welcome Day for new employees. More

 

Networking events

Theme days for members of the KIT Business Club

At the theme days of the KIT Business Club, representatives of member companies exchange ideas intensively with KIT scientists on various topics, such as data science, sustainable industrial products, medical technology of the future and many more. Exciting impulses and lively discussions characterize this networking event, which takes place alternately digitally and at KIT.

Fireside evenings for members of the KIT Business Club

The KIT Business Club has set itself the task of bringing science and business together so that they can benefit from each other effectively. The value of the personal network is particularly noticeable at the fireside evenings: representatives of member companies, scientists and science managers from KIT come together with members of the Executive Board to talk at eye level about transfer-related topics.

Transfer for Dessert for KIT Industry Experts

Transfer for Dessert is a digital, one-hour lunch talk. Members of the KIT Industry Experts can participate. In an open and lively round, the exchange with innovation managers and/or scientists is dedicated to exciting topics of our time. For scientific employees, Transfer for Dessert offers an opportunity to present their technology to companies in a confidential and protected space and to obtain feedback.

Network meeting of the KIT Industry Experts

Experience community, online and on site. This is the motto of the network meetings for members of KIT Industry Experts. At least once a year, the network comes together in a relaxed atmosphere. There is time to get to know each other and exchange ideas as well as information and discussion on an exciting specialist topic.