Toolbox - Your toolbox for innovative methods and implementation

"Makers of Tomorrow" is an online course for students at German-speaking institutions of higher education on the topic of entrepreneurship. However, this is no ordinary course, but a real "masters class" in which students can learn from non-examination-based activities you have undertaken in preparation for higher education.

In the first season, we tell 10 inspiring founder stories. In it, entrepreneurs from Germany and Silicon Valley talk about their personal experiences, their successes, but just as honestly about their failures and mistakes. And they give practical tips for the first steps of a start-up.

Further information and registration for the free online course: makers-of-tomorrow.de/

Would you like to gain an exclusive insight into prominent German start-ups and, above all, get to know the people behind them?

The "Startup Date" talk series gives you an exclusive look behind the scenes of prominent German start-ups and shows you the people, personal stories and formative experiences behind the well-known companies, products and brands.

Visiting entrepreneurs talk about their experiences and the ups and downs of building their start-ups and answer questions from viewers.

"Startup Date" is a cooperative series of events organized by German institutions of higher education and universities:

For more information on the "Startup Date" series and registration for future dates, visit startup-dates.de

Books and materials from the Startup Campus on loan1.42 MBPDF

• Current literature for those interested in founding a company and start-ups can be viewed and borrowed on loan, loaned from the Gründungscampus office (Aalen University of Applied Sciences, building Beethoventraße 1, office 2.56).
  
  To make an appointment: gruendungscampus[at]hs-aalen.de
  
  
  
• Books for start-ups & entrepreneurs & companies
  (Literature tips: Matthias Gutbrod, external lecturer in the field of Business Model Validation at the start-up campus of HS Aalen)
  
  External contents: www.lean-workshops.de/otbooks/

Coaching guide "Customer-centered business model development" __AIS_TBL_PIPE__ Gründungscampus (6.18 MB)6.18 MBPDF

ASAPASAP BW Playbook 3.0 - Guide in total (11.47 MB)11.47 MBPDF

Download individual challenges:

ASAP BW Playbook 3.0 - Challenge 1: Problem Solution Fit (1.85 MB)1.85 MBPDF

ASAP BW Playbook 3.0 - Challenge 2: Product Market fit (1.51 MB)1.51 MBPDF

ASAP BW Playbook 3.0 - Challenge 3: Market fit (1.42 MB)1.42 MBPDF

ASAP BW Playbook 3.0 - Challenge 4: Traction (3.14 MB)3.14 MBPDF

ASAP BW Playbook 3.0 - Challenge 5: Business Model Fit (1.83 MB)1.83 MBPDF

Understanding Problems & Target Groups(s)

Ground Rules For Interviewing Template By Strategyzer (0.11 MB)113 KBPDF

User Profile Canvas Template (0.12 MB)119 KBPDF

Empathy Map Template (0.25 MB)260 KBPDF

Market and Competition

Channels & Traction - Bullseye Framework (0.58 MB)591 KBPDF

Petal Diagram (0.19 MB)195 KBPDF

Validation

Test Card Template (0.32 MB)324 KBPDF

Learning Card Template (0.16 MB)161 KBPDF

Experiment Library Template by Strategyzer (0.36 MB)364 KBPDF

Business model

Gassmann/Frankenberger/Csik (2017): 55 innovative concepts with the St. Gallen Business Model Navigator (1.57 MB)1.57 MBPDF

Idea profile Idea Napkin (0.09 MB)88 KBPDF

Lean Canvas (0.42 MB)431 KBPDF

Value Proposition Canvas (0.14 MB)140 KBPDF

Business Model Canvas (0.43 MB)442 KBPDF

Customer Factory Template (0.7 MB)717 KBPDF

The start-up platform is a student organization of the federal ministry of economy, business and energy as well as the KfW and helps you as a "construction kit for your business" to develop your idea to implementation: gruenderplattform.de

You want to get a comprehensive picture of all the important topics relating to business start-up and Strategic Management? The BMWi's business start-up portal will help you find your way around with well-founded information, practical tools and further offers: existenzgruender.de

• Further information on the DPMA and intellectual property rights at www.dpma.de
• DPMA information material for download

Information page of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office:Patents

Information page of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office Utility models

Information page of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office Trade marks

Information page of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office Design

Would you like personal support in the concrete planning and implementation of your start-up project from experts at the IHK/ HWK, especially in the areas of business plans, financing, funding and the formal start-up process?

By registering on the digital platform, you can get in direct contact with the regional experts from the IHK/ HWK: gruendungswerkstatt-baden-wuerttemberg.de

Get started with your idea in the hospitality industry!

Get support with all operational, economic, business and financial questions and benefit from numerous funded offers for entrepreneurs in the hospitality industry: dehogastartupbox.de

A special offer from the DESIGN CENTER Baden-Württemberg for small and medium-sized companies from Baden-Württemberg is the individual DESIGN1ST ADVISORY.

It provides companies with information on design issues relating to product and graphic design. They are given advice on the various cooperation options with designers and on how to integrate design assignments, credit, performance into their product development process. Experienced designers offer advice on awarding contracts, briefing designers and providing a rough estimate of assignments, credit, performance, time and costs.

As part of the DESIGN1ST advisory service, start-ups and companies can obtain information free of charge on issues such as collaboration, cooperation with designers: design-center.de

Are you looking for financial support for your scheme, enterprise, aim, goal? Here you can find well-founded information on the current funding programs of the Federal Ministry, the federal states and the European Union: foerderdatenbank.de

EXIST start-up grants are intended to support entrepreneurs at institutions of higher education and research institutions in the phase before and at the beginning of their innovative business start-up, in particular in the preparation of a viable business plan, the development of marketable products and innovative services.

Funding in the EXIST start-up grant is open to all topics and technologies. The EXIST start-up grant is intended to help support innovative and sustainable start-ups with high market relevance and implementation dynamics, whose start-up idea originated in the environment of the institution of higher education or research institution and in which, in particular, the field-specific, subject-area specific, subject-specific knowledge acquired there as well as any research and development work carried out have been incorporated.

The start-up teams receive an EXIST start-up grant at attractive conditions for a period of 12 months to draw up a business plan and prepare for their business start-up with the support of their institution of higher education or research institution.

The most important prerequisite(s) is that the planned business idea is an innovative, technology-oriented or knowledge-based product with significant unique selling points and good prospects of commercial, economical, financial, cost-effective success. Services are also funded under these prerequisites(s).

The application, request is submitted via the institution of higher education or research institution via the EXIST start-up network on campus in Aalen:

Innovation Center at Aalen University of Applied Sciences

Anton-Huber-Straße 20
D-73430 Aalen

Phone: +49 7361 633 908-0
E-mail, email: info[at]innoz-aalen.de

Further information on the EXIST start-up grant can be found at: www.exist.de and through the Innovation Center at Aalen University of Applied Sciences

EXIST Transfer of Research is intended to support entrepreneurs at institutions of higher education and research institutions in the preparation and implementation of technically particularly risky and complex development work, the results of which form the basis for a commercially, economically, profitable, financially, cost-effective business start-up.

EXIST Transfer of Research funding is open to all topics and technologies. EXIST research transfer is intended to help mobilize innovative and growth-oriented start-ups in the high-tech field (of), to transfer the latest results from academic research into application and thus to carry out a particularly effective form of knowledge and technology transfer. Preference is given to areas of technology with relatively long development times and high technical implementation risks.

The application, request is submitted via the institution of higher education or research institution via the EXIST start-up network on campus in Aalen:

Innovation Center at Aalen University of Applied Sciences

Anton-Huber-Straße 20
D-73430 Aalen

Phone: +49 7361 633 908-0
E-mail, email: info[at]innoz-aalen.de

Further information on EXIST research transfer can be found at: www.exist.de and through the Innovation Center at Aalen University of Applied Sciences

EXIST-WOMEN is intended to support women at institutions of higher education and research institutions who are interested in and interested in founding a company in the phase before founding a company, especially in the development of their entrepreneurial personality and the further development of their start-up idea.

Both women who are already pursuing a specific start-up topic and those who would like to identify a suitable start-up idea as part of the funding are addressed.

The funding is open to all topics and technologies. EXIST-Women is intended to encourage women to venture into entrepreneurial independence and to increase the proportion of women as managing directors and shareholders of innovative start-ups.

The application, request is submitted via the institution of higher education or research institution via the EXIST start-up network on campus in Aalen:

Innovation Center at Aalen University of Applied Sciences

Anton-Huber-Straße 20
D-73430 Aalen

Phone: +49 7361 633 908-0
E-mail, email: info[at]innoz-aalen.de

Further information on EXIST-WOMEN can be found at: www.exist.de and through the Innovation Center at Aalen University of Applied Sciences

The "Young Innovators" funding programme supports young academic staff members from institutions of higher education, non-university research institutions and academies in becoming self-employed with the production and sales of innovative products or business models.

Eligible for funding are preparations for business start-ups involving products, processes, procedures or services based on inventions made by start-ups, software developed by them or their technological know-how.

The program aims to create an alternative to dependent employment and at the same time to fund the knowledge and technology transfer from the institutions of higher education to the economy, business.

Further up-to-date information on how to apply and submit the required, necessary documents can be found at www.junge-innovatoren.de/infomaterial