Startup Support
MCEI has several support schemes that can help you and your business grow - no matter whether you are a student, alumnus/alumna of the University of Mannheim or not. Depending on your goals and objectives, we will help you accelerate your venture from scratch to growth stage with a variety of MCEI support schemes. What is more, we have a strong partner network to rely on which perfectly matches our support with even more opportunities and industry expertise. Find more information in our MCEI Support and Partner Support categories below and have a look at how we can help you advance!
INTEGRA student consultants assisted the Mannheim Pharma & Diagnostics GmbH in refining der business model and adapting their pricing strategy. They developed a highly sophisticated and responsive pricing model. The Mannheim Pharma & Diagnostics GmbH is developing innovative test patches which can make the detection of kidney and liver dysfunctions much cheaper and easier than before. The technology was initially designed…
To support young startups and give students a chance to leverage their skills, we created “Inside the Venture” – a format where students act as consultants and solve pressing issues for early stage ventures. Concerning this offering, we owe a lot to the student consultancy INTEGRA e.V. They have conducted several consulting projects at young ventures by now, which always…
Annika participated in an “Inside the Venture” project at contagt. “Inside the Venture”-projects are not only useful to the involved startups – they also offer student consultants great chances to evolve and get incomparable hands-on experiences! Here’s a personal report from Annika Wiecek, who conducted market analyses and PR measures for contagt together with Lisa Schellhorn: "You want to know how theory relates…
Assessing the market prospects for electroluminescent foils Master student Phillip Haake has conducted an Inside the Venture Master thesis project in collaboration with the InnovationLab (IL) in Heidelberg. He assessed the prospects for commercialization of electroluminescent foils, which are produced with a revolutionary production technology. The assessment involved market research of various current and future application markets and an analysis…
“Inside the Venture”-projects can take different forms. Besides our great projects in cooperation with Integra and students projects, we also send excellent students with business expertise into Startups to support them. This is is then, next to a theoretical element, part of their master thesis work. As a major part of his master thesis at MCEI, Patrick Bach developed the business…
