DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY has become an integral part of our EVERYDAY LIVES and has profoundly changed how we live and work. If businesses want to stay COMPETITIVE, they have no choice but to embrace the DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION in order to optimize …
AI and its benefits for SMEs
Modern technology and a structured approach can help small and medium-sized enterprises get ready for the future
As small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany face ever increasing pressure to optimize their business processes, reduce costs and leverage new business …
Customized software: targeted and cost-effective
An interview with private lecturer Professor Dr. Holger Gast, Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Consulting Center for Agile Development of Information Systems
For the past ten years, Dr. Holger Gast has been offering solutions at his Steinbeis Consulting Center for …
The soft issues can be the hardest nuts to crack in the innovation process
The MI Share project brings digital circularity to medical instruments
A team from bwcon research gGmbH is aiming to combine circularity and digitalization in MI Share, a project funded through the Invest BW program. The project is looking at how …
Moving towards a circular economy in manufacturing industry
Steinbeis experts and European partners implement innovations for welding systems
Manufacturing is a pillar of innovation and growth for Europe, but outdated machinery and unplanned downtime can cause significant losses. The EU project RECLAIM provided strategies to accelerate the deployment …
Digital applications in healthcare
Steinbeis Europa Zentrum is supporting the development of smart health tools
Even as digital transformation plows ahead on its inexorable course, it can still sometimes cause controversy, not least in the healthcare sector. There is no doubt that smart health …
“In the end, what really matters is the company’s growth and development”
An interview with Hans-Jörg Bley and Mario Burić, Steinbeis Entrepreneurs at the Steinbeis Transfer Center TOP.
Businesses, and especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), currently face a multitude of complex challenges that include rising costs, precarious supply chains and the …
The potential of generative AI for patent and innovation processes
Steinbeis experts provide free training on how to use AI for synthetic inventing.
The advent of generative AI is revolutionizing the intellectual property (IP) and innovation landscape. Synthetic inventing is playing an increasingly important role in the development of valuable …
Recipe for success: a blend of technically meticulous engineering and commercially driven optimization
An interview with Professor Dr. Oliver Skroch, Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center Innovation Lab Business Informatics
In the experience of Oliver Skroch, a professor at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center …
“You shouldn’t adopt AI for the sake of it”
An interview with Professor Dr. Michael Munz, Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center for AI Systems and Software Solutions
Although “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning” have become part of our everyday vocabulary, both terms are commonly used in several …
A fundamental understanding of AI algorithms is essential
An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Christian Döbel, Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Integrated Systems and Digital Transformation (ISD) and Professor at the Gera-Eisenach University of Applied Sciences
In summer 1956, scientists at a conference at Dartmouth College …
A holistic strategy for succeeding as a business
Digital technology can help product engineering to strike the optimal balance between cost, quality, sustainability, compliance and time-to-market
The demands in relation to product cost, quality and time-to-market are getting ever greater, as are the complexity of business processes, economic …
Implementing digitalization projects in SMEs
A step-by-step approach to success
Despite the need for digital solutions, far too many digitalization projects are still foundering. What is the reason for this and how can it be prevented? Steinbeis consultant Tobias Fischer has analyzed the causes of …
Staying on track with the DTXN
Steinbeis experts support implementation of digital transformation projects.
Implementing the digital transformation may no longer be a new challenge for businesses, but a systematic, evidence-based methodology that has been tried and tested can help to tackle it. Having recognized this, …
Leading the way
Regulations needn’t hold you back – with a bit of entrepreneurial creativity they can even inspire value-added solutions.
In every market segment and at every national and international level, routine business activities are dictated by laws, standards and regulations. However, …
Modern transportation driven by artificial intelligence
The Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute builds a collaborative data space with Düsseldorf Airport
Imagine arriving at your business meeting just a few minutes after getting off the plane. The SkyTrain takes you to and from the train station, straight from gate …
It’s all about the data
The Heilbronner MDM Round Table is an open industry consortium that addresses the strategic importance of data for digitalization
Technology and data are the driving forces behind digitalization. New technologies make it possible to convert analog variables into digital data …
Adding value for businesses with the metaverse
A systematic approach to help companies get started
Technological innovations play a vital role in an increasingly digital world. The metaverse is one such innovation – a convergent virtual reality that brings people from all over the world together and …
Smart digital systems improve sustainability and efficiency
ComoNeoPREDICT and STASA QC Optimize reduce production costs and enhance quality
Like many other sectors, the plastics industry is currently experiencing significant cost pressures. Many production facilities are struggling to cope with rising raw material, energy and labor costs. And …
Regiobiomatch: Delicious, sustainably grown food
The Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute is developing a digital matching service that makes it easier for organic products produced in the region to also be consumed there.
Environmental awareness and sustainability occupy an increasingly important place on the policy agenda. As …
Welcome to the latest issue of TRANSFER.
Impact may seem like a rather redundant topic for the Steinbeis TRANSFER magazine. But outside of the Steinbeis world at least, there are good reasons to think about the impacts of science and indeed to insist on the importance of …
Two years, one economic zone and no limits – EGON gathers momentum
The Steinbeis experts in Villingen-Schwenningen are coordinating an economic development project for three municipalities in the black forest
The Steinbeis Transfer Center Economy, Foundation, Commune in Villingen-Schwenningen has been directing and managing the multi-community economic development project “EGON” for over …
Female founders – the critical role of women
Steinbeis coach Verena Geisel provides support to women starting their own business.
Women’s role in the German startup scene has changed dramatically in recent years. Today, female founders are a driving force in many innovative industries and important contributors to …
Next-level transfer: Skills and corporate development
The first Steinbeis Dialog@Adlershof discusses innovations in talent management and professional development
A new format for a new venue. In July, the recently opened Steinbeis House in Berlin’s Adlershof neighborhood hosted the Steinbeis Dialog@Adlershof, where experts discussed one of the …
Professor em. Dr. Hans Jobst Pleitner
Steinbeis was saddened to learn of the passing of Hans Jobst Pleitner, who died in St. Gallen in July at the age of 89. With his lifelong devotion to academia, transfer and society, Pleitner was an inspiration for generations of …
More than just happy coincidence
CASEIA study investigates serendipity in innovations from research institutions and businesses and makes recommendations for the future
How do EU innovation programs affect the socio-economic impacts of European research institutions? This complex question was addressed by the CASEIA (Comparative Analysis …
Dedicated builder of bridges awarded german order of merit
Professor Dr.-Ing. Norbert Höptner receives german president’s decoration
The former Chancellor of Pforzheim University, Professor Dr.-Ing. Norbert Höptner, who served as Commissioner for Europe for the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Baden-Württemberg and director of the Steinbeis Europa Zentrum between …
Keeping a handle on building maintenance costs with PABI©
Steinbeis experts develop maintenance cost forecasting and staffing tool
The maintenance of buildings and their technical equipment is one of a property owner’s most important tasks. But maintenance managers often have trouble convincing decision-makers who are not experts in this …
The need for agility in the development of digital processes
Steinbeis experts share methods and processes for developing digital product and business model innovations with an SME
Development teams play a vital role in the digital age. They are expected to solve complex problems with vague and rapidly changing requirements …
“A fun beginner’s guide to hydrogen for all ages”
Bianca Brinner and her father Andreas are bringing out a hidden picture book explaining how hydrogen is produced and used
Also known as wimmelbooks, there’s a hidden picture book for almost any everyday situation. These children’s books depict richly detailed …
From staff editor to self-employment
Steinbeis helps founder start successful communications consultancy
The consulting market is growing. But that doesn’t mean that every business offering consulting services will be welcomed with open arms. Christian Gleichauf decided to venture into the world of self-employment when he …
Sustainable technology transfer with China in the spotlight
Steinbeis SUTM head office opens in Beijing
Technology plays an ever more important role in business and in our private lives. The rapid rate at which technologies are developing – coupled with their diversity and growing complexity – means that …
Welcome to the latest edition of TRANSFER
New material developments and innovations in the field of materials research are central to a variety of global megatrends, as well as the challenges these pose in terms of medical technology, sustainability, resource and energy conservation, and climate change. Materials …