A look back at the 2018 Steinbeis Day
The platform provided by Steinbeis makes us a reliable partner for company startups, business projects, and people who want to apply their expertise to the overlapping areas of science and academia on …
This Is the Network Calling!
Three Awards, Two Anniversaries, One Bedrock of the Organization
A look back at the 2018 Steinbeis Night
Two numbers stood out at this year’s Steinbeis Night at the Stuttgart Liederhalle Arts and Convention Center. It was the 15th time that the Steinbeis Foundation Transfer Award – the Löhn Award …
“The challenge lies in the complexity of different expectations and goals”
An interview with Hartmut Welck and Matthieu Grosjean, experts in international innovation management at Steinbeis 2i GmbH (S2i)
Innovation and internationalization – two areas of focus for the experts at Steinbeis 2i GmbH, which works in close collaboration with the …
Saving Energy Through Environmental Communication
Steinbeis experts coordinate initiative looking at the energy efficiency of care homes
Senior care homes do not put much thought into energy issues. Understandably so – they have plenty of other topics demanding the attention of care workers, in all …
It All Depends on the Quality of Management
Steinbeis seminar provides insights into management psychology – a key success factor for companies
The Gallup Institute regularly conducts a worldwide study to gauge how motivated and loyal skilled workers feel about individual companies. The outcome: Up to 80% of …
Music Running Through Your Veins – and Your App
Steinbeis coach supports startup in the world of advertising music
Press rewind – back to a master’s degree course at Baden-Wuerttemberg Pop Academy, where Markus Schwarzer, Jakob Höflich, and Joshua Weikert first met. The three friends quickly realize that they …
It Doesn’t Always Have to Be Amazon
Steinbeis mentors provide coaching support to young business founders linking up online searches with on-site shopping
Where can I find those running shoes, that school bag made from recycled plastic bottles, or that delicious wine from Spain? It’s so easy …
Turning the Spotlight on Rolling Bearings
Steinbeis experts compare optical confocal and white light measurement technology with tactile roughness measurement
The Steinbeis experts working at the Steinbeis Transfer Center in Herzogenaurach are specialists in the field of bearings. For some time now, they have been looking …
A Different Approach to Mobile Robotics
Team of students at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Ravensburg develops fully automated seating robot
According to a study conducted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), technology can currently already perform more than 70% of the activities …
Straight from University into Management
An interview with Nicoline Janssen, alumna of Steinbeis University Berlin
In her main job, she is a specialist in labor law at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart. But Nicoline Janssen is also a mother, a volunteer lifeguard for the …
A Vision of Future Generations
A network revolving around a Steinbeis company organizes a high school and university trip to the Vision trade show in Stuttgart
It’s never too early to foster the next generation of specialists – as six members of a technology alliance …
Translating Wear and Tear into Sound Using Acoustic Fingerprints
Steinbeis experts work with the University of Stuttgart to develop a new kind of algorithm for monitoring milling processes
The competitiveness of manufacturing facilities and companies in high-salary countries like Germany depends on the cost-effectiveness and performance of production machines. …
The Self-Renewing Enterprise: The Potential Success Offered by Corporate Succession
Steinbeis creativity workshop develops criteria for successful self-renewal processes
Two Steinbeis consultants, Martin Ritter and Günther Luber, have dedicated their expertise to the field of salvaging companies. At a creativity workshop held at the last Steinbeis Day they showed how …
Well Done – With Room for Improvement
Experts conduct research into digitalization levels of companies in the Black Forest district of Baar-Heuberg (SBH)
Are businesses in the Black Forest district of Baar-Heuberg (SBH) prepared for future challenges, and in which areas do they still need to take …
Medical Technology in an Era of Digital Solutions
Network initiates forum for creating successful SME business models through participative technology development
In a democracy, technical know-how, action, and decision-making should not be reserved for a handful of experts. They should be accessible to a broad section of the …
Innovation That Bonds
Steinbeis experts work with a plant manufacturer on the development of individually produced tanks
Container and equipment requirements necessitate increasingly precise and adaptable production options, especially in the fields of food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. A particular problem faced …
Leadership, Education, Personality: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Call for papers from the School of International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE)
The world is undergoing sweeping change – transcending society, the state, politics, the media, culture, and business. It’s times like this that leaders are needed who know how …
Photonic FabLabs – The Next Digital Technology Revolution
Steinbeis acts as partner in an EU project called PHABLABS 4.0
Light is one of those diverse areas of technology that excite people, probably because there are very few areas that photonics cannot be applied to. From energy transmission to …
Feature topic: Networking at Business School Alb-Schwarzwald
Guests welcomed to the Meeting Place for Business event on April 13, 2019 in Rottweil
Lots of people want to be innovative, but in all honesty: Is anyone actually innovative? Probably not the sort of company that sits quietly in …
Honors and Awards to the Power of Three
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Mücklich honored by several institutions of materials science
All good things come in threes. The Saarbrücken-based materials researcher and Steinbeis director Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Mücklich has been honored by three German and international institutions for his outstanding …
Feature Topic: Intercompany Transfer
Insights from Steinbeis experts into a variety of transfer processes
There is general consensus that successful knowledge and technology transfer is an important factor in business enterprises’ ability to innovate. However, there is less general awareness of the fact that …
Innovation Is an Acquired Manual Skill – From Ski Boots to Awnings
30 years of the Seifriz Award – the German skilled trades and science award
Year in, year out, the transfer award for German skilled trades and science highlights the interplay between the skilled manual trades and science. In fact it …
“Companies need to leave their comfort zone and establish new ways of thinking about things!”
An interview with Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Jähnert, managing director of bwcon GmbH
TRANSFER magazine asked Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Jähnert, the managing director of bwcon, an enterprise in the Steinbeis Network, why transfer between companies is becoming more and more important as a …
Not Possible Without Communication!?
Interpersonal communication as a prerequisite for successful intercompany transfer
Connecting and keeping others informed are the most important forms of social interaction. Exchanging ideas with others, sharing what you know, and learning from one another are central components of a …
“The process of transfer between companies opens the door to something new”
An interview with Dr. Jonathan Loeffler, CEO of Steinbeis 2i GmbH
Dr. Jonathan Loeffler is the CEO of Steinbeis 2i GmbH and an expert when it comes to intercompany transfer at an international level. In an interview for TRANSFER magazine, …
Understanding and Achieving Digital Transformation
A key prerequisite for successful projects: collaboration
Everyone is talking about digital transformation these days, but introducing digital solutions in practical terms is often more difficult than people think. Transformation is not just about technical solutions; the nuts and bolts …
“Interpersonal factors should not be underestimated”
An interview with Dr. habil. Gernot Barth and Bernhard Böhm, directors of the Steinbeis Consulting Centers for Mediation of Business in Leipzig and Vienna
The intercompany transfer process usually revolves around the sharing of knowledge and technology. Dr. habil. Gernot …
Steinbeis Consulting Group Personal: Network Competence, Collaborative Advisory Services
Intercompany transfer à la Steinbeis
Steinbeis Consulting Group (SCG) Personal is an alliance of experienced experts from different Steinbeis Enterprises that deals with the topics of organizational development, personnel development, and competence management, spanning a wide portfolio of services. Its …
Applied Know-how in Additive Manufacturing
3D printing technologies require all-round support and broad-based knowledge
Although 3D printing has been becoming more and more important as an element of additive manufacturing in recent years, there are still a number of knowledge gaps regarding how best to …
SMEs on a Path to New Realms of Digital Technology
From IIC testing to the Micro Testbed
Digital transformation and the 4.0 phenomenon are a reflection of a whole host of changes, the impacts of which are still not understood, and as a result they are still largely new territory …
Micro Testbeds – Research and Application in New Ecosystems
The one crucial factor is trust
Digital solutions are everywhere now, bringing about fundamental change not only in value creation processes but also in entire business ecosystems. This is resulting in the emergence of new business models, a challenge that …
“Everyone involved derives benefit from collaboration”
Micro Testbed participants describe their experiences
The Micro Testbeds organized by the Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institute (FSTI) allow companies to introduce and test solutions to the specific problems they face, working in partnership with other organizations in actual application scenarios. By working together …