Co-Innovation

Some challenges are too complex for a purely internal solution. They affect entire value chains, require new technologies, or call for partners with different perspectives. This is exactly where co-innovation comes in. UnternehmerTUM brings the right players together, structures the collaboration, and makes sure shared ideas turn into concrete results. Depending on the challenge, we develop pilot projects, test startup solutions, build prototypes, or set up programs with talents and students.

Joint Innovation Projects

We connect organizations that can achieve more together than alone.

• Project setup: We define goals, roles, decision paths, and the right project structure.
• Partner orchestration: We bring together companies, startups, research, public institutions, and other players in a targeted way.
• Implementation with impact: We develop solutions that go beyond individual ideas and can be tested in practice.

Venture Clienting – Put Startup Solutions to Work Fast

You test and integrate external solutions for your specific challenges.

• Targeted identification of relevant startups from our network
• Pilot projects for fast validation: technology, fit, and impact
• Support with integration and scaling through to permanent use

Student Hackathons, Sprints & Programs

The next generation solves your challenges — with fast results instead of long lead times.

• Access to interdisciplinary teams in engineering, design, and business from the Technical University of Munich
• First validated solution prototypes within a few days
• Digital Product School: a three-month program in which an international team of talents works exclusively on your digital challenge — from problem definition to finished prototype
• Innovation Sprint: in five days, interdisciplinary student teams develop solution ideas for your specific challenge — hands-on, structured, and with a pitch at the end