What Europe Can Learn from Asia

Helmut Schönenberger, co-founder & CEO, UnternehmerTUM Key points: Turning strong academic research into companies that actually scale requires more than world-class science - it takes a deliberately built university venture ecosystem Munich and Singapore support founders and commercialise deep tech in notably different ways, and each has lessons to offer the other Singapore's model of connecting universities, government, investors and industry offers practices European ecosystems could adopt Europe's strengths in engineering, industrial technology and long-term research are assets that Asian innovation hubs can learn from - the exchange runs both ways Helping European DeepTech companies expand into Asia is a concrete role universities and innovation centres should own, from talent bridges to market access