REvaluation Podcast
REvaluation Podcast
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Episode #34 - "Crafting career trajectories that are attractive for excellent people": Markus Wanko at XISTA
37 minutes Posted Nov 5, 2025 at 12:00 am.
Intro
Introduction Markus Wanko
What's ISTA?
What's the role of XISTA in ISTA?
What are the barriers?
How does XISTA cooperate with other start-up services?
Where does the capital come from?
How does XISTA measure the relevance and impact of their work?
Example success stories
What else is going on at XISTA?
Markus' recommendations for STI Policy
Take evaluation seriously!
Outro
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Show notes
Markus Wanko is the founding force behind the XISTA innovation ecosystem, empowering science innovators. Today, Markus leads XISTA’s venture fund (Managing Partner), science park (MD), and tech transfer arm (MD). With his work he helps ISTAs research to develop it's full societal potential. In this interview we learn how start up trainings must be sector specific to be most effective, where the venture capital for the science start-ups typically comes from and what Markus recommends to the ev...