LOCOMOTIVE FINAL CONFERENCE

Hamburg 5-6 June 2007

Helmut Thamer

Managing Director TuTech Innovation GmbH and Hamburg Innovation GmbH

After studying physics at universities of Giessen and Kiel and completing his doctoral thesis at the TH Darmstadt on questions of chaotic physical systems, Dr. Thamer was from 1981-85 Assistant to the founding President of the new Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg. In 1985 Dr. Thamer became head of the liaison office of TUHH where he developed and realized the concept of TuTech, which in 1992 was outsourced as the first private transfer company of a German university. Dr. Thamer is heavily involved in regional innovation development both at a strategic and operational level. In 2004 in addition to retaining his position of the re-organised TuTech Innovation, Dr Thamer also became MD of Hamburg Innovation a technology transfer company owned by and serving the majority of Hamburg’s institutions of higher education.

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