Is Founding of the New German Agency for Transfer and In-novation(DATI)an Opportunity for Profile-building Universities of Applied Sciences?
The German ecosystem of state research,transfer and innovation funding is being expanded to include another state funding institution.While the German Research Foundation(DFG)traditional-ly supports basic research at German universities,the German Agency for Transfer and Innovation(DATI)is intended to specifically target its funding instruments at the regionally rooted universities of applied sciences that cooperate closely with corporate practice.With its founding,the federal govern-ment is pursuing the goal of transferring knowledge and innovation more quickly into applications,companies and new business models.The article presents the conceptual key points and initial fund-ing lines of the DATI,differentiates it from the Federal Agency for disruptive Innovation(SPRIND)and examines the opportunities for further profile-building processes that the founding of DATI brings with it,especially for universities of applied sciences.
German Agency for Transfer and InnovationDATIapplication-orienteduniversity of ap-plied sciences