= <span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#333333; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span><br/> =
= <br/> =The faculty at TU Hamburg is encouraged through multiple collaborations with inoovative companies in Hamburg. One way this unfolds is that a lot of PhD Students wirte their thesis with a company to have a direct impact in the economy and the university lectures will then be enriched by the research. Further more, faculty can also work on projects at the Start Up Dock and possibly create their own start-ups. Some collaborations are also with research facilities as well, may that often be fundamental research. This might not create a start up at first, but it opens the university to a greater spectrum of technnical possibilites that will spark conversations and collaboration at the university itself.
= <span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#333333; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span><br/> =