Train-it: turning innovative technology into business

The contribution presents the approach and interim results of the EU-funded Accompanying Measure IST-Business: TRAIN-IT. With a 6-day training course in business plan writing, TRAIN-IT supports all IST (Information Society Technology) project participants in taking their exploitation of project results beyond Exploitation Plan or TIP writing towards actual commercialisation of project results. TRAIN-IT is part of the entrepreneurial support structure and start-up competency at IZET Innovationzentrum Itzehoe, an incubator and international technology transfer centre. Main responsibility of IZET is the steady growth of Hightech Itzehoe, a science park in the north of the Hamburg Metropolitan area in Germany.