Innovation and collaboration opportunities:
At ITU we support researchers who want to explore commercial and innovative opportunitites. Through sparring, licensing agreements, help with spinouts, innovation courses and events, we support innovation at the ITU.
COMMERCIALIZATION: Spinout Journey
Discover
Discover new research audience and explore the opportunity for creating a spinout.
FUNDING: ITU Discovery Grants
Prototyping
Create a Value Proposition, build your first deliverable, test your new customers and business model.
FUNDING: InnoExplore
FUNDING: Spinouts DK
Accelerate
Scale your business to new Markets
COLLABORATION: Networks & Business Partners
Explore opportunities for new corporate collaborations and research data collection. These partners offer you the opportunity to do innovation collaborations through sector specific national grant stakeholders and corporate collaboration partners:
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
ITUs legal team offers help and support on IPR matters such as; inventions, patents, utility models and software of commercial value. Furthermore, the legal team can assist on drawing up and negotiating agreements, including determining ownership on any IPR generated during a research project with one or more parties.
The legal team also offers advice on how to commercially exploit inventions in collaboration with ITUs separate legal entity, ITUs Business Development A/S, evaluating the commercial potential of an invention created by researchers and PhD students, where some go on to become attractive licensing opportunities or the basis for new spin-outs.
If you, as an employee at ITU, have made an invention, ITU has the right to have the invention assigned to it. Therefore, you are required to report the invention to ITUs legal team. Please use the following link: Invention Disclosure Form. The legal team will then initiate a process to evaluate the commercial potential of your idea.
In the links below you can find information about the ITU procedures, rules and guidelines related to inventions made at ITU.
If you have an specific IPR questions, please feel free to direct them to legal@itu.dk
Business Partners
The National Marketing Consortium
Regional Light Houses
Domain Experts and Business Mentors
Innovation Funds
The European Research Council
We support two types of INNOVATION & COLLABORATION tracks:
SHAPE
A large portion of ITU’s research lies within “Social Sciences, Humanities & the Arts for People and the Economy” - in short SHAPE
This research is super important and more of it should be utilized in creating Societal Impact. Traditionally, SHAPE has not been a focus area for innovation efforts at the universities, but this will be changing in the future. In InnoCollab we are working diligently to establish models of support for SHAPE innovation cases, and we are members of a cross-university task force.
Under the Open Entrepreneurship Program, whose role is to find ways to better support the SHAPE Innovation Journey. Such endeavors may for instance include software supported services, consulting offerings and innovation projects with existing companies.
Among the other activities the task force will be promoting the value and importance of research in these disciplines across different audiences: policy-makers, industry, funders, employers, and the wider public.
STEM
IT related STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) research is also prevalent at ITU particularly from the Department of Computer Science.
STEM research is the source of many Deep-Tech/Hard-Tech spinout and startup companies - a classification used to describe organizations who provides technology solutions based on substantial scientific or engineering research. These companies often require tricky technical development and large capital investment before successful commercialization, while they enjoy valuable intellectual property rights and are hard to reproduce. Hence, risks are often technical in nature, while market related risks may be lower due to clear overall value propositions and significant potential for societal impact (such as many climate and energy related solutions).
STEM research is also the source of many software companies where an application is based on complicated algorithms or deep mathematical understanding (such as in cybersecurity, multiparty computing is or software verification).
CASE: Cluster Innovation Grant
Disincentivizing Out-of-band Attacks & Improving the Efficiency of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms for Blockchain Systems
Blockchain technology is the primary underlying system in all digital cryptocurrencies and distributed ledgers yet inherently engineered for robust security and resilience against the majority types of attacks. Nevertheless there are some treats to the security of blockchains and two of these treats are the focus of this project led by Esra Yeniaras at the IT University of Copenhagen together with a consortium of five companies.
Events
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TechBBQ
September 11th and 12th
We will part of the Open Entrepreneurship booth
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DTS 2024
October 30th and 31st
We will part of the IT-University booth
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Innovation Fair
September 23rd
We will participate and are available for 1:1 bookings
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FinTech Week
September 25th
We will participate and are available for 1:1 bookings
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Danish Digitalization, Data Science and AI 2.0
October 22nd and 23rd
This conference will bring together researchers, students, and professionals from diverse disciplines to share cutting-edge research and insights, gain new knowledge, exchange ideas, and build valuable connections across geographical, scientific, and specialized domains.
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Discover New Audience
October 29th from 13.00-14.30
Are you interested in increasing impact for your research? Then join us for this cross-university webinar on how to identify new audiences.