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{"id":8354,"date":"2025-11-05T01:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fteval.at\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=8354"},"modified":"2025-11-05T01:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:02:01","slug":"episode-34-crafting-career-trajectories-that-are-attractive-for-excellent-people-markus-wanko-at-xista","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/fteval.at\/en\/podcast\/episode-34-crafting-career-trajectories-that-are-attractive-for-excellent-people-markus-wanko-at-xista\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #34 &#8211; &#8220;Crafting career trajectories that are attractive for excellent people&#8221;: Markus Wanko at XISTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"left\">\n<div class=\"justify-between pl-5 md:flex\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"episode_content\" class=\"px-5 pb-5 leading-normal bg-gradient-to-b from-white md:px-0 md:bg-none to-zinc-100\" data-controller=\"tabs\" data-tabs-hide-class=\"hidden\" data-tabs-active-class=\"episode__nav--current\" data-tabs-show-on-load=\"\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"episode_description !w-full\" dir=\"auto\" data-controller=\"convert-links-to-open-in-new-tab\" data-tabs-target=\"panel\" data-tabs-panel=\"description\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/markus-wanko-a006071\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Markus Wanko<\/a> is the founding force behind the XISTA innovation ecosystem, empowering science innovators. Today, Markus leads XISTA\u2019s venture fund (Managing Partner), science park (MD), and tech transfer arm (MD). With his work he helps ISTAs research to develop it&#8217;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 evaluation community: To take evaluation seriously!<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ISTA: <a href=\"https:\/\/ista.ac.at\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ista.ac.at\/en\/home\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>XISTA: <a href=\"https:\/\/xista.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/xista.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>XISTA science ventures: <a href=\"https:\/\/xista.vc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/xista.vc<\/a><\/li>\n<li>XISTA <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">innovation: https:\/\/xista.io\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>XISTA science park: <a href=\"https:\/\/xista-park.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/xista-park.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Music<\/b>: Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) (ft. Morusque, Jeris, CSoul, Alex Beroza) by spinningmerkaba http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/people\/jlbrock44; SouljaUnit Remix of DeadRobot Music\u2019s Surfy via https:\/\/freesound.org\/people\/SouljaUnit\/sounds\/640175\/<br \/>\n<b>Photo<\/b>: The Gentlemen Creatives<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8349,"template":"","class_list":["post-8354","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Episode #34 - &quot;Crafting career trajectories that are attractive for excellent people&quot;: Markus Wanko at XISTA - fteval<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fteval.at\/en\/podcast\/episode-34-crafting-career-trajectories-that-are-attractive-for-excellent-people-markus-wanko-at-xista\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Episode #34 - &quot;Crafting career trajectories that are attractive for excellent people&quot;: Markus Wanko at XISTA - fteval\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Markus Wanko is the founding force behind the XISTA innovation ecosystem, empowering science innovators. 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