START Berlin Panel Talk: "From Labs to Launchpads" 🚀
​🚀 Why do so many great ideas never turn into real startups?
​Many promising research projects never leave the lab.
Lack of funding, heavy bureaucracy, limited risk appetite, and little collaboration between research and business: the barriers are endless.
​👉 According to the German Innovation Report 2024, only 6 out of 100 scientific discoveries in Germany are turned into market-ready innovations.
​👉 More than 70% of researchers say the path from lab to market is “unnecessarily complicated.”
​To truly change that, we need universities, policymakers, venture capital, and startups at the same table -> talking, challenging, and shaping the ecosystem together.
That’s how we build an innovation-driven Germany, where ideas grow, get funded, and startups can actually thrive.
​🎯That’s exactly what we’re doing at START Berlin.
​On November 11th at 7 PM, we’re hosting our panel talk “From Labs to Launchpads” at SAP Berlin, bringing together key voices from research, politics, VC, and startups:
​🇩🇪 Dr. Lina Seitzl, Member of the German Parliament
​🇩🇪 Julian Joswig, Member of the German Parliament
​🎓 Prof. Dr. Ziegler, President of Freie Universität Berlin
​💡 Elisheva Marcus, VP Communications at Earlybird VC
​and more incredible guests from Berlin’s StartUp ecosystem tba 👀
​📍Location: SAP SE, George-Stephenson-Str. 7–11, Berlin
​🕡 Time: Tuesday, November 11 | 6:30–9:30 PM
​Hosted and sponsored by SAP.
​18:30 – 19:00 Arrival & Check-in
Registration & Welcome-Drinks
​19:00 – 20:15/20:30 Panel Discussion + Q&A
20:30 – 21:30 Networking & Drinks