Web Summit 2023German Exhibitors WORLDFACTORY Start-up Center - Ruhr University Bochum

WORLDFACTORY Start-up Center - Ruhr University Bochum

Booth number: E230-B3-T3.02
www.worldfactory.de/en

About us

Knowledge is an excellent reason: The WORLDFACTORY Start-up Center (WSC) is the central hub at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) for everything to do with start-ups and transfer. With its services, the WSC taps creative potential and prepares individual paths to entrepreneurship for clever minds. WORLDFACTORY International crosses borders in the minds and on the map. It bundles the international start-up and transfer activities at Ruhr University Bochum and uses global networks and partnerships to create space for start-ups without borders. To shape the world of tomorrow, WORLDFACTORY International prepares RUB founders for a smooth entry into the global market and invites international founders to discover the local start-up ecosystem Ruhr.

Address

WORLDFACTORY Start-up Center - Ruhr University Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum
Germany

Phone:  +49 234 3229626

Contact person:

Vanessa Vaughn
Project Manager and Start-up Coach at WSC/RUB
E-mail: vanessa.vaughn@rub.de
Phone: +49 234 3229626

Anne Plitt
International Network Manager at WSC (Cube 5)/RUB
E-mail: anne.plitt@rub.de
Phone: +49 234 3225890

Products & Services

Education

WORLDFACTORY international offers…

  • an advanced training programme for international start-ups and early career researchers interested in founding a company to implement business ideas
  • advice and support for the establishment or internationalisation of start-ups
  • tailor-made support from Incubators in the fields of IT security (Cube 5), chemistry (Start4Chem), materials science (Materials), product-service systems and smart products (Smart Systems) and health science (Health+)
  • international start-up events for networking with regional companies, start-ups, investors and the regional ecosystem
  • a guest programme for international researchers interested in starting a business, in order to explore transfer potential from research and to deepen collaboration
  • a global partner network with strong research and transfer capabilities

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