The services

We offer networking and communication services tailored to your company’s interests to facilitate access to the TUM ecosystem and collaboration between research and industry. In addition to communication and networking, the focus is on strategic planning and alignment of the partnership.

Key Account Manager

Trusting relationships are the key to successful cooperation. The personal key account manager forms the bridge between the industry and TUM. He proactively shares relevant information about the TUM ecosystem. Through close contact with all relevant TUM Schools, Departments, and Chairs, a broad range of interdisciplinary topics is continuously shared focus and new areas of cooperation can be optimally explored. Here, the interests and needs of the company are always the focus. Your key account manager will advise you on how best to collaborate with universities and research institutes, how to implement your innovation strategies, and will define suitable research strategy focus topics with you.

IEP Insights into the TUM Ecosystem

Via a regular newsletter, the Industry Engagement Program provides information on all new developments at TUM, such as TUM-wide infrastructural developments, current appointments, strategic innovations, highlights on technology spin-offs and innovative research focuses.

We proactively inform you about participation opportunities at TUM that are relevant to your corporate strategy. This includes, for example, information about new programs and funding announcements, new professorships in relevant subject areas, and participation opportunities specifically for your company across different departments.

IEP Talents & Networking

We bring your company together with TUM talents. There are various opportunities at TUM to meet our young talents, for example at events, workshops, poster sessions, or research colloquia where students, graduates, PhD students, start-ups, and company representatives can meet and exchange ideas. We can help you find the right format.

Get to know our talents through joint research projects and increase your company's visibility by building a long-term relationship with TUM!

Receive information and invitations to selected TUM events with thematic and representative relevance for your company. These include, for example, invitations to the TUM Sustainability Day and the TUM Entrepreneurship Day.

IEP Research & Future Technologies

TUM has more than 600 professorships with a wide range of expertise - and new ones are constantly joining. We assist in finding the right scientists and academics, provide personal consultations to companies, and facilitate contact with the relevant areas of expertise and the professorships that possess specific know-how for problem-solving.

We organize exploratory workshops with our scientists to explore new innovative fields, rethink crucial research questions, or further advance established development topics. As a close cooperation partner with a wide range of expertise, we can significantly and reliably support identifying new research topics.

An early insight into TUM Intellectual Property gives you exclusive access to selected yet unpublished patent applications. If you are interested, we arrange meetings with the inventors and our department for patents and licenses.