Rooms and Laboratories

Ground Floor – Shared Workspace & Startup Coaching

Welcome to the heart of Campus Foundery OWL! A spacious shared workspace awaits you on the ground floor of InnovationSPIN. Just grab your laptop and sit down at one of the modern workstations—monitors are already provided. Right next door: Our startup coaches are here to offer you advice and support. Whether you’re just getting started or already in the thick of it—we’ll support you every step of the way.

Upper Floor – Accelerator Area

For startups we support through programs like Kickstart, special opportunities open up here: In the accelerator space, you’ll have access to a dedicated workstation that you can use independently. Additionally, courses and workshops are held here regularly to help you and your idea move forward. There’s also literature on the topic of starting a business available there.

At SmartFactoryOWL – Lemgo campus

Do you have an innovative product in the field of IT or electronics in mind? At the IA-Lab, you can make it a reality.

Here you can:

• Develop prototypes using breadboards, circuit boards, and soldering stations
• Work with professional modeling and programming software
• Precisely manufacture and test electronics

Equipment (electronics workstations):

• Soldering stations including desoldering pump & hot air station
• High-performance computers for modeling & programming

Workshop workstations:

Want to make your own enclosures or customize components? No problem—our workshop stations offer you:

• Precision milling machine, lathe, 3D printer
• Machining of metal, plastic, glass & wood

Your contact: Sergej Grunau | sergej.grunau@th-owl.de 

FoodLab – Your ideas, your recipes: At FoodLab, you have everything you need to develop and test new products—from concept to market-ready.

What to expect:

• High-quality equipment such as: ice cream maker, Thermomix, food processor, dehydrator, MagicPlant, Princess Candy, CO₂ extraction system, laboratory bioreactor, and much more.
• Everything you need for product development, testing, and small-scale production

And that’s not all:

We connect you with other founders and industry experts and offer a customized coaching program—e.g., on:

• Product development & raw material sourcing
• Food law & shelf life
• Sensory analysis & marketing

Your contact person: Britta Schattenberg | foodlab@th-owl.de