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IABG to bundle security expertise in south-eastern Munich

IABG is initiating a new security cluster in south-eastern Munich. This way announced by Thomas Dittler, managing director of the high-tech company on 25th January at the “TBU on tour” event in IABG’s new technology centre. Clusters are spatial and thematic pools of scientific and industrial capacities whose purpose is to promote technology transfer. There are, for example, clusters for aerospace and aeronautics, satellite navigation and biotechnology in Bavaria, within which bundled strengths are used for innovative new developments.

“Security will play an increasingly important role in the future,” says Dittler explaining his approach. This refers to both the external and internal security of the company as well as the safety of technical systems. IABG, as a Bavarian technology company, contributes to both fields with simulations and tests. “Simulations and tests are the hubs for technology transfer,” Dittler said.

In the presence of Ottobrunn’s Mayoress Prof. Sabine Kudera and Taufkirchen’s Mayor Eckhard Kalinowski, Dittler said that IABG’s new technology centre could be part of the new cluster for security. “Here we have one of the largest safe working environments at our disposal,” he said. Excellent scientific institutions such as the University of the Bundeswehr Munich in Neubiberg would have to be included in the cluster. IABG and the Armed Forces’ university have already been practicing technology transfer for years. Prof. Walter Waldraff (UniBwM) and Manfred Braitinger (IABG) illustrated this in a cooperative presentation on the example of networked modular simulator technology.

“We must interconnect the expertise of universities and companies more extensively,” explained the Head of Innovation for the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) for Munich and Upper Bavaria, Dr. Frieder Schuh. The so-called “transfer points” of the ten Bavarian universities served this purpose, joining together in the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Transferstellen Bayerischer Universitäten” (Study Group of Transfer Points, Bavarian Universities, TBU). Their spokesman Dr. Thomas Schmid from the University of Würzburg encouraged companies at the IABG event to interact with the TBU. “We see ourselves as a cooperation manager between science and business,” he said.

Using specific examples, Dr. Frank Strathmann, Head of the Contact Point for Research and Technology Transfer at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, provided a glimpse into the way the transfer points work: “We provide assistance, for example, when the manager of a biotechnology firm is looking for a project partner from the sciences.” Vice versa, the contact point is also available to scientists who are launching an enterprise and want to market the results of their research. Alongside the help provided for research cooperations and establishing firms, the transfer points of the Bavarian universities also provide support for marketing of research, patent advising and vocational training.

The cooperative event put on by IABG and TBU was titled “Successful cooperation between business and science.”