Focus on an innovative development of businesses and the use of knowledge and research in practice are the main topics of the Academic Entrepreneurship Forum 2017. The meeting took place on 7 June in the auditorium of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. It was the fifth edition of the event which aims to bring the two worlds: the world of science and the world of business, closer together. The event was attended by a number of companies, institutions, and academic departments who express interest in initiating or deepening mutual cooperation. Among the exhibitors, there were also the representatives of Apator and Apator Control, who seek to establish closer ties with the scientific community and the institutions working on innovations in the field of, among others, Industry 4.0 concept.