On May 26th, the non-profit Rudolf Sallinger Fonds awarded the S2B (Science To Business) Award to entrepreneurial scientist for the first time. Additionally, interdisciplinary students teams were honored for their entrepreneurial ideas as part of the Future Founders Challenge.
Aim of this initiative is to anchor entrepreneurship even more in the Austrian higher education landscape and to sustainably strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit, especially among young academics. Crowd voting and the opinions of an expert jury were used to identify the winner team in a process lasting several weeks.
The winning team „Cubicure“ from TU Wien was pleased to receive the S2B prize money of 20,000 euros. “We are developing new polymers for the use in high-end 3D-printing machines. This allows us to extend traditional industrial production methods, such das injection molding, with the unique capabilities of 3D-printing,” said Prof. Dr. Jürgen Stampfl from the Institute for Material Science and Technology of TU Wien. Dipl.-Ing. Robert Gmeiner goes on to explain: “Not only can components with complex geometries be manufactured easier and cheaper, but production advantages can also be achieved through more flexible, tool-less and individualized production.” (APA)