Innovation isn’t just about speed and money. It’s about impact.
We talk a lot about innovation in Europe: technology, funding, scale. But not enough about what it actually gives back to our society.
Too often, innovation is reduced to KPIs and valuations.
But real innovation is when science solves a problem that matters. When a breakthrough reaches the people it was meant to help.
When we started NanoTemper, our goal wasn’t to chase the next big round.
It was to develop tools for drug discovery: so better biotherapeutics could reach patients faster.
Our dream: to help cure cancer.
My personal motivation: mother & father having cancer.
That’s what innovation should do:
improve lives, strengthen communities, move humanity forward.
Now, as Vice President for Entrepreneurship at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, I want to help researchers and founders build companies that matter: not just because they generate a lot of revenue, but because they make a difference.
Innovation isn’t just a race.
It’s a responsibility.
P.S.
Stefan and me founded NanoTemper during our PhDs at the LMU. Now I’m back to give back.
