Feodora Lenz is a member of the innovation and cooperation team at the University of Göttingen. As an innovation scout, she supports the link between research and businesses in order to combine the expertise and ideas from scientists with local small and medium sized enterprises to solve R&D problems in joint projects. Within the university, she also looks for start-up ideas from research projects and supports the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between scientists from different disciplines in order to facilitate new applied research projects. Feodora Lenz has a scientific background in astrophysics and gained entrepreneurial experience as the founder of flenz baby carriers.