HHL Entrepreneurship Week 2025

The HHL Entrepreneurship Week 2025 is the platform for entrepreneurship: in research, transfer, and practice. Hosted in Leipzig.
We bring together leading minds across several tracks. At center: Entrepreneurship and Startups.

Our transfer academy stream on spinning startups out of universities: How to build programs? How to curate ecosystems? How to build great startups? All addressed in exchange our community.

Our research conference stream brings together scientists and doctoral researchers to present and discuss latest findings and future project.

The Accelerate Conference hosts startups, entrepreneurs, investors to drive new startup creation.

Enjoy and contribute to our core topics of

1. Building programs, coachings, and formats for startups

2. Creating ecosystems and communities while integrating alumni and partner

3. Building startups and strong teams to improve startups’ success

4. Forming and growing entrepreneurship centers

If you have any questions, please contact our team:

Prof. Dr. Dominik Kanbach
Chair of Strategic Entrepreneurship
Prof. Dr. Stephan Stubner
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG Chair of Strategic Management and Digital Entrepreneurship
Prof. Dr. Alexander Lahmann
Chair of Mergers and Acquisitions
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maximilian Schreiter
Junior Professorship in Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer
Dr. Maurice Steinhoff
Managing Director HHL Digital Space
Niklas Schulte | Research Associate
Niklas Schulte
Research Associate & Project Manager
Tom Gronemann | Research Associate
Tom Gronemann
Research Associate
Yannick Schon | Research Associate
Yannick Schon
Research Associate
Kevin Schuppe | Research Associate
Kevin Schuppe
Research Associate
Steven Esch
Research Associate