Max Planck celebrates 50 years of technology transfer
With guests from politics and science, Max Planck Innovation (MI) was celebrating 50 years of successful technology transfer yesterday in Berlin, after a two-year, pandemic-related, delay. Since the Max Planck subsidiary was founded in 1970, the company has supported more than 4,800 inventions and around 180 company spin-offs, as well as concluding more than 2,900 exploitation agreements. "These science-based spin-offs have created more than 9,250 skilled jobs and contributed to Germany's innovative strength as a business location with their products and services.