Twenty professors, among them RESOLV member Professor Clara Saraceno, were honored by UNIPRENEURS for their outstanding commitment to spin-offs and entrepreneurship at universities.
"I'm delighted with this award. I lead my group in a deliberately entrepreneurial way, because research and entrepreneurship differ less than people assume: in both cases it's about setting goals, leading a team, and delivering results,” says Clara Saraceno. “The foundation, however, remains freedom of research – it isn't the opposite of that mindset, it's the precondition for it. That both of these come together at Ruhr University and in RESOLV is not something to take for granted."
The award ceremony took place in Berlin, Germany, with the Federal Minister for Research, Technology and Space, Dorothee Bär, who is co-patron of UNIPRENEURS, which is the highest award for the promotion of entrepreneurship in higher education and research in Germany.
UNIPRENEURS is committed to promoting entrepreneurship at German universities. The distinguished UNIPRENEURS professors are outstanding researchers at their respective universities and, in addition to research and teaching, have made significant contributions to the transfer of innovations to industry. They represent top-level research achievements in engineering, economics, natural sciences, computer science, and medicine.