The new German Agency for Transfer and Innovation (DATI) will help the academic research base to create spinouts.

Germany’s new government plans to set up a national technology transfer agency, according to news provider Science Business.

Bettina Stark-Watzinger (pictured), the incoming education and research minister and a former research manager, agreed to set up the German Agency for Transfer and Innovation (DATI), according to the 178-page coalition agreement, Mehr Fortschritt Wagen (“Dare to make more progress”), released last week by the three parties making up the…

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