FamilienUnternehmerTUM aims to pool the expertise and experience of UnternehmerTUM for the target group of medium-sized companies: from the development of a new product, the construction of a prototype in the high-tech workshop Makerspace, to tech and StartupScouting, hackathons, seminar series, and teaching programs. Interested family-run businesses will be connected with innovation and technology experts from academia and industry, startups, and established industrial companies from the UnternehmerTUM ecosystem. This will help develop new ideas, technologies, and business models.
FamilienUnternehmerTUM aims to combine innovation and sustainability
"Family businesses find not only startups with us, but also space for experimentation. How, for example, can artificial intelligence be used? They find answers in a joint project. And founders, in turn, find partners, mentors, and investors with staying power,"
says Susanne Klatten, entrepreneur and chairwoman of the supervisory board of UnternehmerTUM.
"I hope we can help create a new awareness for entrepreneurial families who embrace innovation while still thinking long-term. And our founders, filled with a spirit of change, can learn about the value of long-term thinking. This combination—innovation and sustainability—is the future."
Christian Mohr, head of the initiative and member of the management at UnternehmerTUM, sees FamilienUnternehmerTUM as a unique opportunity to “specifically strengthen the innovative power of family-run businesses and thus the backbone of our economy”:
"This is the only way we can do justice to our position as a center of innovation and thus our holistic responsibility for future generations. Family businesses are looking for talent, startups, and knowledge – but here they are already available. It's a self-sustaining system."
