From a controlled, scenario-based test model to a self-driving car
Whereas humans use their senses to recognize their surroundings, cars rely on their sensors. Future generations of vehicles will increasingly tap into artificial intelligence to interpret sensor data. This will …
Everyone Starts Small
Working Successfully in Innovation Partnerships and Networks
The Steinbeis Consulting Center Co-Innovation Academy provides training in “co-innovation skills”
Innovation levels, market introductions, project standards, and the quality of collaboration are key success factors for innovation partnerships. To safeguard these factors, the Steinbeis Consulting Center Co-Innovation Academy and …
Go-ahead for the SIAT Initiative
Steinbeis experts co-develop an innovation and staff training network
Innovation and training must go hand in hand – a key factor recognized by a consortium including the Institute for Effective Management, a Steinbeis Consulting Center. Together, the stakeholders want to …
By Design or Disaster?
Steinbeis experts show how to make a success of transformation
Changes happen – all the time, all around us, repeatedly. Time and again, established industries come under pressure. Often, this happens when they are enjoying a hefty rise in sales …
Welded Together by a Diamond Wire
Steinbeis experts develop new welding device for diamond wires
To cut hard brittle materials such as silicon, hard metals, sapphires, or even composite materials like circuit boards, it is common to use diamond wire saws. The surfaces of the cutting …
What’s the Point? Discussing the Usefulness of Science
The Max Syrbe Symposium is streamed from the Heilbronn Education Campus
On November 3, 2021, a selection of “thinkers and doers” met up in the auditorium on Heilbronn Education Campus to take part in the Max Syrbe Symposium and explore …
“We’d like to offer SMEs the opportunity to introduce AI to actual applications”
An interview with Alexandra Fezer and Stefano Sbarbati from Steinbeis Europa Zentrum
The Vanguard Initiative aims to bolster innovation and industrial growth in the EU. Starting points for the project are regional strategies aimed at fostering intelligent specialization. This involves …
AI for the Next Generation of Tumor Diagnostics
A research network develops a platform based on AI technology to support medical treatment
Genomic cancer medicine and immunotherapy are revolutionizing the treatment of cancer patients. U.S. scientists Ralph Weissleder and Mikael Pittet predict that in the future, most diagnostic …
Dear Readers,
This issue of TRANSFER magazine highlights the potential and interrelationship between human beings and “machine intelligence” in the world we will live in one day. This topic marks the conclusion of a series of special features, this year revolving around …
All Good Things Come from Above
Drone data supports the artificial worlds of autonomous vehicles
Simulations – especially those aimed at providing the closest possible representations of reality – are particularly important for attaining higher levels of autonomy in self-driving vehicles. Until a suitably large fleet …
It’s All in the Mix – Exploring the World Immersively with AI and AR
Steinbeis experts redevelop indoor positioning and augmented reality (AR) applications
For Professor Dr.-Ing. Frank Deinzer of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for New Media and Data Science, the starting point is university research. Supported by his team, Deinzer is conducting research …
Making Decisions and Leading People with the OODA Model
How to lead the company strategy and operations in a crisis situation or period of change
The current pandemic, the supply problems it has led to, rising energy costs, plus the shift toward sustainability place a variety of demands on …
New Opportunities for Innovative xDLIP Laser Technology
Steinbeis team and an industry specialist enter into strategic partnership to develop standard machines for novel laser surface functionalization
SurFunction, the Saarbrücken-based Steinbeis company, uses laser technology to create unique surfaces modeled on nature. To promote so-called xDLIP technology in …
The 2021 Steinbeis Engineering Day: The Role Played by AIoT in Practice
How artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) creates benefits for business
The internet of things has not only found its way into our living rooms, industry is also increasingly recognizing the potential offered by networking between companies. Suddenly, processes that for …
Löhn Award Goes to the Masterminds Behind the Climate-Neutral District in Esslingen
Steinbeis experts develop energy and sustainability concept
Dedication to sustainability that thoroughly deserves recognition – on October 6, 2021, Steinbeis presented the team at the Steinbeis Innovation Center energyplus and its project partners with the Steinbeis Foundation’s Transfer Award – …
Predictive Maintenance – A Game Changer empowered by Industry 4.0
Steinbeis experts develop decision-making tool for analyzing the economic efficiency of predictive maintenance
The tools of smart factories (Industry 4.0) offer companies a number of ways to improve competitiveness and, at the same time, secure their future viability. The interoperability …
Obituary: Honorary Senator Josef Pfeffer
Steinbeis mourns the death of honorary Senator Josef Pfeffer, who passed away on September 25, 2021 at the age of 83. From 1985 to 2004, he accompanied the Steinbeis Network as honorary Deputy Chairman of the Steinbeis Foundation Board. Josef …
When AI Analyzes The Risks It Faces Itself
Research team investigates impact of artificial intelligence on data and information security
Over the last two years, the specialist press in Germany has published no less than 1,500 articles on the risk posed to companies by artificial intelligence. According to …
Visions of Artificial Intelligence: Science Fiction or Just Around the Corner?
Professor Dr. Wolfgang Ertel outlines the potential scenarios of future AI singularity
A central theme of Origin, the novel by American author Dan Brown, is a form of artificial intelligence that kills its human inventor after weighing all the facts. …
“The biggest thing gender equality requires is a shift in our thinking”
An interview with Martina Schmidt, director of the Contact Point for Women and Careers in Ravensburg, Lake Constance/Upper Swabia
Equal treatment for men and women at the workplace – a goal that has still not been achieved in Germany. Like …
A Habitat for Digital Twins
A team of researchers from Mannheim expands the fundamental concept of digital transformation
How do I turn my physical product into a smart product of the future? This is the question many producers are forced to ask themselves when they …
“Realizing AI-based systems is just as important to me as understanding their consequences”
An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Cristóbal Curio, Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence that focuses on people, despite thinking like a machine – is that utopian or an entirely possible scenario for the …
Those Who Want to Go Far, Go Together
Steinbeis experts support the LEONARDO Center for Creativity and Innovation with the planning and organization of knowledge transfer during the process of innovation
Our economic systems and society thrive on a continual supply of new ideas. The best ones lead …
“Despite its superhuman abilities, compared to natural intelligence AI is extremely limited”
TRANSFER magazine speaks to AI expert Carsten Ullrich, professor at Steinbeis University
Sometimes it feels like the only opinions you hear about artificial intelligence (AI) are extreme opinions – it’s not often you experience moderate opinions. Some see AI as …
“Ultimately, the focus is always on people”
An interview with Professor Bernhard Humm, Ph.D., Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
The futuristic image some people associate with AI is that of an intelligent, humanoid robot. Yet …
Emission-Free, Carbon-Neutral, and Efficient: Solar District Heating Support Local Climate Protection
Steinbeis experts coordinate climate protection project to support the transition to environmentally friendly heating
Solar district heating combines two established and perfected forms of technology: solar thermal energy (“solarthermics”) and district heating. The general expansion of district heating and, in …
Success in Rotation
Steinbeis experts develop a plasma welding burner using a mechanical rotating light arc for bonding and weld overlaying
Welding has become an extremely important task, not just for joining traditional materials – such as steel or aluminum – but also …
The Green Management & Leadership Award 2021: Honoring Sustainable Companies
Steinbeis team acts as collaboration partner at the sustainable management award ceremony
Steinbeis Global Institute Tübingen, the Steinbeis Transfer Institute, joined forces with other project partners to present this year’s Green Management & Leadership Award (GreenMLA®) to two companies: Rational …
A New and Sustainable Understanding of Innovation
Steinbeis experts help companies to (re)think frugally
Innovative products, innovative concepts, innovative thinking. Innovation has become one of those magic words of modern business processes, a concept that – applied rigorously – will apparently never fail to result in growth …
Strategies for a sustainable economy and society
A sustainably oriented ECONOMY and SOCIETY lay a foundation for ensuring future GENERATIONS can enjoy a FUTURE worth living in. So far, so good. That is the IDEAL. But do we currently have the right strategic concepts to adapt and …
“Innovate rather than copy”
An interview with futurist and Steinbeis expert Professor Dr. Heiko von der Gracht
Copies of brand-name drugs whose patents expired are already having a huge impact on healthcare systems around the world. So-called generics and their biotechnological mirror images – …
“To This Day, There Is No Obligation to Test Drinking Water for PFAS”
An interview with Wilfried Ludwigs and Olaf Kaspryk
The human organism is unable to clear perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) from the body – or only after many years. They accumulate and, above certain concentrations, can potentially trigger diseases. In the summer …
Entering the Future Stronger and with Resilience
The Steinbeis+Akademie trains resilience coaches to act as company experts
Resilience – currently one of the most important aspects of coaching and therapy: Originally developed for prophylactic reasons to help individuals deal with domestic situations, it is now becoming increasingly …