Max Planck Innovation: Connecting Science and Business
Seminar
- Date: Jul 9, 2025
- Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Dr. Lars Cuypers
- Max Planck Innovation, Senior Patent & Licensing Manager
- Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle (Saale)
- Room: Lecture Hall Building B
- Host: Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik
Abstract
As the central technology transfer company of the Max Planck Society (MPG), Max Planck Innovation has helped bridge the gap between science and industry since 1970. We advise scientists of the Max Planck Society on the assessment of inventions, manage the filing of patents and market patents, software and knowhow to industry. We also support startup teams from the initial evaluation of the company idea via a detailed business and financing plan through to capital procurement and management searches. Thus we perform an important task: the transfer of basic research results into products, which contribute to the economic and social progress.
Biography
Lars Cuypers studied chemistry at the universities of Oldenburg and Marburg, working in the field of organometallic synthesis during his doctoral research studies. From 2003 to 2007 he gained first business experience working as an R&D manager for the detergent raw materials business at Clariant in Frankfurt-Höchst. Since May 2007 he has been working as a Senior Patent & Licensing Manager for Max Planck Innovation, where he is responsible for technology transfer in MPG's CPT Section.