Entrepreneurship at PSI
PSI's commitment to entrepreneurship focuses on creating favorable conditions for entrepreneurship and is aimed at doctoral students, postdocs, scientists, or engineers who are interested in embarking on the path to entrepreneurship.
However, from a promising research result to a market-ready, innovative product, it is often a long journey that requires a high degree of initiative, responsibility, and willingness to take risks. Potential entrepreneurs face entrepreneurial challenges such as analyzing target markets, developing technology into products, as well as deepening the business idea and developing a business concept.
The Founder Fellowship Program at PSI, known as PSIFF, supports potential founders in developing their business ideas based on PSI know-how or technologies at PSI and turning them into commercial products or services. Thus, the PSIFF acts as a bridge between a scientific career and the founding of a spin-off.
The PSIFF is awarded annually as a competitive scholarship and aims to further develop the entrepreneurial thinking of the fellows and further mature commercially viable PSI technologies.
Several spin-offs have already emerged from the PSIFF program, including the successful biotech startup "Araris Biotech AG".
PSI - Spin-offs
A spin-off of PSI is a newly founded company, a startup, which is based on technologies or know-how developed at PSI. In the context of technology transfer, spin-offs are a very efficient way for the commercialization of research results, know-how, and intellectual property. The activities in research and technology at PSI offer various opportunities for commercial exploitation.
PSI supports and promotes the founding of spin-off companies through consulting and coaching by the Technology Transfer team and various funding instruments, such as the PSI Founder Fellowship Program.
An important funding instrument of PSI for the spin-off formation is the "PSI Founder Fellowship," or PSIFF for short. This funding enables potential founders to pursue the realization of their business ideas at PSI and is primarily aimed at researchers, engineers, etc., with an entrepreneurial spirit.
Below is a list of our spin-offs:
The most recent spin-off companies of PSI
Tandem Therapeutics
Founding year: 2023
Website: https://www.tandem-tx.com/
Contact: info@tandem-tx.com
Astra Therapeutics
Founding year: 2023
Website: https://www.astratherapeutics.com/
Contact: contact@astratherapeutics.com
Focal Biosciences AG
Founding year: 2022
Website: https://focalbiosciences.com/
Contact: contact@focalbiosciences.com
XRnanotech GmbH
Founding year: 2020
Website: www.xrnanotech.com
Contact: Florian Döring, florian.doering@xrnanotech.ch
Araris Biotech AG
Founding year: 2019
Website: www.ararisbiotech.com
Contact: Philipp Spycher, pspycher@ararisbiotech.com
RADEC GmbH
GratXray AG
novatlantis gmbh
novoMOF AG
InterAx Biotech AG
leadXpro AG
Treatech
Founding year: 2015
Website: https://trea-tech.com/
Contact: info@trea-tech.com