Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT) has a worldwide unique competency to represent, map and SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTE THE ENTIRE FUNNEL from the idea to successful scaling with a possible exit to create real sustainable impact into society and economy. The basic teaching reaching out to all faculties & research labs, together with various entrepreneurial qualification programs, form a stable foundation which is supplemented by a resilient national and international entrepreneurial ecosystem. Expansion and sustainable anchoring of start-up activities for bundling and efficient use of start-up-related resources in Eastern Bavaria created positive economic effects. DIT networks with founding-relevant, regional partners, such as institutions, companies, and associations. Our worldwide unique competence network accompanies founders already during their studies at DIT, during the start-up phase through accelerating up to scaling their ventures. Our ecosystem, combining and bundling DIT Start-up Campus, the DIT Entrepreneurial Institute to the unique Bavarian Innovation Transformation Center Oberschneiding with the Silicon Valley School (Scale-up School), transformation labs and exclusive PreSeed, Seed, VC partners, and global ecosystem covers the entire spectrum in depth. We act in and work with a resilient ecosystem consisting of a) DIT R&D labs plus 13 Technology Transfer Campuses (TTC), b) industrial partners and companies, c) start-up centres, in particular the Digital Start-up Centres (in Bavaria and beyond) and d) academic, entrepreneurial, and scaling partners with Silicon Valley top schools & institutes. Transformation to impact economy and society is DNA of DIT.

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Peter Sperber
President
Head of University,  Deggendorf Institute of Technology



Prof. Dr. Thomas Geiß
Director
Centre for Start-up support (Startup Campus),  Deggendorf Institute of Technology



Prof. Dipl. theol. univ. Peter Schmieder
Director & Founder
Bavarian Innovation Transformation Center & Silicon Valley School,  Deggendorf Institute of Technology



Prof. Dr. Tobias Strobl
Methodology of Scale
Bavarian Innovation Transformation Center & Silicon Valley School,  Deggendorf Institute of Technology



Prof. Dr. Veronika Fetzer
Economy of Scale
Bavarian Innovation Transformation Center & Silicon Valley School,  Deggendorf Institute of Technology



Prof. Matthias Notz
Ecosystem of Scale
Bavarian Innovation Transformation Center & Silicon Valley School,  Deggendorf Institute of Technology



Dr. Markus Ortmann
CEO & Founder
mantro GmbH



Ronald Weissman, PhD
Chairman
Leavey School of Business & Silicon Valley Executive Center,  Santa Clara University



Justin Lokitz
Advisor, Partner & Strategy Designer
Stanford D-School/ Berkeley Skydeck, BMI - San Francisco



Geoff Baum
VP of Marketing, CMO/VP Marketing, Mentor
Acceldata, Stanford University, German Accelerator Silicon Valley



Alfons Weinzierl, BA, M.Sc.
Entrepreneurship Manager
Centre for Start-up support (Startup Campus),  Deggendorf Institute of Technology



Alexander Böckl, B.Sc., M.Sc.
Entrepreneurship Manager
Centre for Start-up support (Startup Campus),  Deggendorf Institute of Technology



Alexander Dorn
Program Manager Silicon Valley Program
Bavarian Innovation Transformation Center & Silicon Valley School,  Deggendorf Institute of Technology

We would like to thank the leadership team of the Innovation Transformation Campus ITC1 Deggendorf and our network partners for the consistently excellent cooperation. We would also like to emphasize the great support DIT continuously receives from the city of Deggendorf, the municipality of Oberschneiding and the district of Straubing- Bogen and the state of Bavaria for seeing the future and paving a path. We thank our sponsors from the corporate world and our private sponsors, the companies of Google, eBay, NVIDIA, Adobe, and others for giving unique insights and sharing their experience, all the experts, investors and VC´s for all their advice and invest, SCU Leavey School of Business, Silicon Valley Executive Center, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Mentors from Berkeley SkyDeck, our German ecosystem AND the teams and ventures – it is their drive that motivates us!!!!
Our successes could just be achieved with their strong support.