Dirk Kautz, PhD
'Start-ups in the life sciences with long development times, large financial requirements and high risk face particular challenges. We support their development to market.'
Focus of work
- Startups
- Business models and venture capital financing
- Life sciences
- Medical technology
- Artificial intelligence
Curriculum vitae
Dirk Kautz has been supporting and advising start-up projects and start-ups in the life sciences at the iit on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since 2021. He is responsible for a central BMBF funding programme for the transfer of research results (GO-Bio next) and organises transfer-related training events. He previously gained relevant experience as head of a life science accelerator, consultant and co-founder of several start-ups. He has worked in marketing and corporate development in the medical technology industry. Dirk Kautz is a physicist with a PhD in neuroscience.
Publications
Kautz, Dirk; Cvitkovic, Antonija; Hagen, Philipp; Huber, Monika; Schulz, Christian; Seydack, Matthias (2024): Digitalisierung in der Medizintechnik – Herausforderung und Chance