Linking University & Industry

Scope

The goal of this nonprofit organization is to bring basic research carried out at the university one step further and link it to industrial predevelopment.

Exciting new scientific results and processes developed at the university will be carried on to a level, where companies can take over in order to actually develop commercial products.

In the future, there will be close collaboration between the University of Cologne and the COEC. In collaborative R&D projects, the University will focus on research while the COEC will focus on development.

The work will be carried out in independent office/laboratories. Due to close cooperation with the university (Meerholz group), COEC will have access to specialized measurement equipment.

Organization

The COEC has two shareholders Verein zur Förderung des ZOEK e.V., with different research institutions, small and medium-sized enterprises, major enterprises, and financial institutions as members, and the Ideas Factory Cologne (IFC), a subsidiary of the University of Cologne.