Managing Director, Technology Licensing Office of the State of Baden-Württemberg Universities’ Alliance – Technologie-Lizenz-Büro (TLB) der Baden-Württembergischen Hochschulen GmbH, Germany Prof. Dr. Arno Basedow

Arno Basedow is Managing Director of Technologie-Lizenz-Büro (TLB) der Baden-Württembergischen Hochschulen GmbH. He is Adjunct Professor of chemical engineering at the University of Heidelberg and Chair-Elect of ProTon Eurupe. Previously he was involved as project manager at Fraunhofer-Patentstelle für die Deutsche Forschung (Patent Centre for German Research of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, München) and at N-transfer GmbH (Hannover). He was Director of Research and Development and Authorised Officer of Fine Chemicals Division at Merck KGaA (Darmstadt). Furthermore, he was Director of Research and Development, Quality Management, Information, Documentation and Patents Management and Authorised Officer at Lohmann GmbH & Co. KG (Neuwied). Arno’s activities cover physical chemistry, chemical engineering, pharmaceutical technology, drugs, food additives, fine chemicals, wound management, adhesive systems and patent management. He published more than 25 original articles mainly in the field of polymers and registered 12 patent families.