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08/31/2016 | Pressemitteilung

Jörg Froharth is the new managing director of Science Park Kassel

Science Park Kassel has another managing director: As of September 1, 2016, Jörg Froharth will be managing the start-up and innovation center on the Holländischer Platz campus of the University of Kassel together with Dr. Gerold Kreuter. Froharth represents the university on the management board; he thus takes over the position from Dr. Oliver Fromm, who was appointed Chancellor of the University of Kassel in July 2015 and resigned from his position as Managing Director of Science Park Kassel GmbH.

Jörg Froharth was born near Bremen in 1966 and studied sociology, psychology and education at the University of Kassel. Since 1998, he has been intensively involved with the topic of "Entrepreneurship and Higher Education". He has not only long been associated with the University of Kassel's academic start-up support, he has also played a decisive role in shaping it. Since 2005, he has been head of the University of Kassel's start-up support, the UniKasselTransfer Incubator. In this role, he was instrumental in developing the profile-giving strategy for start-up promotion and was involved in the conceptual planning of the Science Park Kassel on the North Campus. In January 2013, the University of Kassel received an award from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy as an "EXIST Gründerhochschule" for its overall concept.

 

Froharth is looking forward to the tasks ahead. In his dual role as managing director of Science Park Kassel GmbH and head of the UniKasselTransfer incubator, he would like to further expand synergy effects; above all, he sees the Science Park with its multi-faceted spatial concept and support services as a hotspot for new ideas: "For me, the Science Park is an open place for the development of new ideas. Start-ups, companies and the university form the exciting potential for innovation, cooperation and networks," says Froharth, and continues: "My goal is to establish the Science Park in the region as a strong partner for companies, but also for social and cultural institutions, and to anchor it as an interface between the university and the region of North Hesse."

 

The Science Park Kassel GmbH start-up and innovation center, which opened in March 2015, has established itself with its 6,000 square meters as a place and symbol of living knowledge transfer. At the same time, as a cooperative project between the city and the University of Kassel, it stands for the regional anchoring of the university as an innovation pool. In the meantime, more than 75 percent of the space has been leased and 38 innovative companies have found their place in Science Park Kassel. The conference rooms and the Idea Lab are regularly rented by external as well as internal companies for events.

 

Image by Jörg Froharth (Photo: Uni Kassel) at
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Contact:

Jörg Froharth
Incubator Management
UniKasselTransfer

University Square 12, 34109 Kassel

Phone: 0561 804 2498

Fax: 0561 804 7055

E-mail: froharth[at]sciencepark-kassel[dot]de

Internet: www.uni-kassel.de/unikat/