Universities always have been breeding places for new ideas and new horizons, while the applications are not always there. Industry is permanently looking for new ways to ensure continuity, a process in which new technical and technological ideas can be important. A systematic setup of channels for transfer of ideas between those different worlds is necessary. Inventing institutes not always realize themselves that serious new ideas in many cases ask for high initial costs and a sophisticated organizational setup before any result can be booked. Therefore Technology Transfer is the result of an integral approach in which technical ideas have to be combined with managerial insight and financing capabilities.  more