Germany's average time for university IP transfer into a spin-off: around 18 months. At LMU Munich, our team now does it in 3. Not by pushing founders harder - by changing the system. One decision level. One clear path. One place where founders get answers. This is what a university must do if it is serious about entrepreneurship: remove friction from the founder's path.

18 months. That's how long it takes, on average, to transfer university IP into a startup in Germany. Not to build the product. Not to find the first customer. Not to raise funding. Just to negotiate the contract. Meanwhile, Chinese competitors move from discovery to clinical trial in the same timeframe. We're not losing on innovation. We're losing on bureaucracy.