Enterprising spirit at Technische Universität München (www.tum.de) means promoting and bringing together a wide range of diverse talents. In the context of top-level research (16 Nobel prizes so far) this means combining a maximum of individual freedom with a functioning, science-friendly administration.
The TUM Entrepreneurial University aims at achieving a level of academic research that benchmarks well with the best international standards through facilitating ground-breaking science, promoting diversity, entrepreneurial culture, open innovation in public-private partnerships, and sustainability investment.
The TUM carries out its EIT ICT Labs activities in close cooperation with its associated transfer and innovation centers
* fortiss, the research and transfer center for software-intensive systems at the TUM.
* UnternehmerTUM is a start-up facilitator and a center for entrepreneurial education.
* The Center for Digital Technology and Management offers master-level studies in technology management and interdisciplinary education with a focus on ICT and entrepreneurship.
The EIT ICT Labs activities at the Technische Universität München and its associated institutes integrate research, innovation, and education activities in cyber-physical systems (CPS) for accelerated innovation and sustainable impact. The activities at the the EIT ICT Labs regional innovation center in Munich are coordinated through fortiss.
These activities build on existing strong research on cyber-physical systems such as the national innovation alliance on Software Platforms for Embedded Systems (spes2020.informatik.tu-muenchen.de) and educational programs at TUM. They are complemented with carefully selected , EIT-funded activities for enabling and continuously improving the EIT ICT Labs innovation process for cyber-physical systems.
In 2011/2012 the EIT ICT Labs activities at the TUM and its associate institutes concentrate on the EIT ICT Labs action lines on smart energy systems and smart spaces.
