Humboldt University of Berlin has promoted Thomas Wagner (pictured), one of the venture managers at its tech transfer arm Humboldt-Innovation, to become head of the unit’s Venture Service.

Venture Service is jointly run by Humboldt-Innovation and the university’s research hub, Servicezentrum Forschung im Überblick, to form student, alumni and researcher-led startups.

Since launching in 2005, Venture Service has been involved in generating at least 66 companies with a total of 550 staff between them.

Wagner began the position earlier this…