Our Spin-Offs
To allow their ideas to play a role in the economy, researchers become entrepreneurs. The HZDR provides its scientists with wide-ranging support for their spin-off projects. In addition to creating its subsidiary for technology transfer, HZDR Innovation GmbH, it has also created a series of successful spin-offs.
TECHiFAB
TECHiFAB GmbH was founded in 2021 to develop the world's first memristor for data processing and storage. The MEMRiSTOR is an analog device with distinct properties that enable data classification and data correlation in hardware. The MEMRiSTOR can be used to develop new AI algorithms. The analogue storage and processing of data enables it to be used as a core component in neuromorphic computers.
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TheiaX
TheiaX GmbH is the latest spin-off of the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology. Founded in December 2021, the start-up offers services for the efficient exploration and characterisation of raw materials using non-invasive technologies in combination with robust ML data processing routines.
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Biconex
The HZDR spin-off biconex is founded in 2015 and market leaders in functional coating of high-temperature polymers with metals. Learn more about the high-tech products based on polymers with metallic properties.
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CCR Technology GmbH
CCR Technology GmbH was founded in 1995 as a spin-off from the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. CCR Technology is the inventor of the COPRA Plasma Technology® and serves its customers in markets like optics, solar, semiconductor, wear & decorative coatings, large area glass coatings as well as storage and display media.
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DREEBIT GmbH
Founded in 2006 as a spin-off from TU Dresden and Oerlikon Leybold Vakuum Dresden GmbH, the DREEBIT GmbH focuses its activities on the development, manufacture, service and sale of ion sources, ion beam systems, electron beam systems and equipment for micro- and nanotechnology as well as for medical applications.
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ERZLABOR Advanced Solutions GmbH
ERZLABOR, a spin-off of the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, was founded in 2017. The company offers services related to the qualitative and quantitative mineralogical characterization of solids.
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GBS Elektronik GmbH
The GBS Elektronik GmbH was founded 1992 as a spin-off from the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. The company deals with both the manufacturing and development of electronic assemblies, equipment and facilities.
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GeSIM mbH
GeSiM - Society for silicon microsystems mbH, a 1995 spin-off from the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, focuses on the development of microfluidic devices and nanoliter pipetting robotics. GeSiM fluidics chips and pipetting equipment are used in biotech laboratories.
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HZDR Innovation
HZDR Innovation GmbH, founded in 2011, is a technology transfer company for the development and production of prototypes. It receives production orders from industry and uses the know-how and infrastructure of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in its work.
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i3 Membrane
i3 Membrane produces multifunctional membranes and functional stainless steel foils. The company was founded in 2013.
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Rotech GmbH
The Rotech GmbH was founded in 1995. Its goal is to support the exploitation of research results from scientific institutions in Rossdorf by an appropriate technology transfer.
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ROTOP Pharmaka GmbH
ROTOP Pharmaka GmbH, founded in 2000, specializes in the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients and kits for the preparation of radiopharmaceutical products based on Technetium-99m. The company is located on the research campus in Rossendorf and works closely with HZDR in various areas.
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SaxRay
SaxRay offers X-ray based material analysis for developers of innovative materials. Moreover, the company engages in the development and production of innovative X-ray analysis components. The company was founded in 2011.
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Teletronic GmbH
The engineering firm Teletronic Rossendorf GmbH has been hived off from the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD) in 1991. The Teletronic Rossendorf GmbH is engaged both in the design of equipment in small series production, as well as the implementation of development projects.
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THATec Innovation GmbH
THATec Innovation GmbH, founded in 2016, offers hardware and software solutions in the following areas of expertise: the automation of laboratory devices, optical scanning microscopy, and Brillouin light scattering.
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APT GmbH
The company developed innovative methods to modificate the surfaces of raw materials. The company was dissolved in December, 2017.
NanoscopiX
NanoscopiX, founded in 2009, developed products for a more rapid diagnosis of various diseases. The company was dissolved in 2016.