Steinbeis experts use analysis tool to gauge the attractiveness of workplaces
Difficulties finding new people, skills shortages, a lack of loyalty to the company among specialists: just some of the problems currently facing employers. The future of innovative companies and …
It’s Good Working Here
Innovative Compression Technology for Efficient Hydrogen Vehicles
Steinbeis experts join EU COSMHYC project
Aside from battery-driven electric vehicles, hydrogen vehicles are an important building block of climate protection, especially if the hydrogen that is required can be produced with a zero carbon footprint. Current compression technology based …
An Innovative Business Model for Intelligent Traffic Systems
Steinbeis assesses obstacles and enablers of new systems as part of EU NEWBITS project
Less highway traffic, improved transportation on the roads, along waterways, and in the air – all made possible by intelligent transportation systems, a key technology in …
Tackling Oxygen Deficiency in the Eye
Steinbeis experts develop technology for treating eye condition
The eye has the highest metabolic rate of all organs and thus places the highest oxygen demands on the body. It also has the highest blood circulation rate of all organs, which …
Beat the Heat
Steinbeis team provides support with the development of a synthesis process for silicon carbide
Graphite is a popular material in construction. Its chemical resistance, density, and thermal stability in the absence of oxygen make it suitable for a variety of …
Digitalization Fosters Sweeping Change in the Value Chain
SIBE innovation teams help firms shape up for digital transformation
When a company that makes bicycles suddenly has to become a provider of transportation solutions (“mobility”), it is a fitting reminder of the changes sweeping through industry value chains – …
Book vs. E-Book – Do You Like a Digital Solution?
Steinbeis-Edition conducts survey
Steinbeis-Edition (STE) has also been putting thought into digital transformation in the publishing market. It has been a long time since books were only printed and published on paper. The market is now brimming with e-readers, with …
When an Innovation Deserves an Award: The Seifriz Award and Digital Aviation
Award ceremony on October 18 in Karlsruhe
Instead of hitting the headlines, good ideas often disappear down a dark hole, never quite making it as an example of novel, successful projects. To do something about this, every year the Seifriz …
Leadership. Education. Personality. Management in a World of Fluctuation
Steinbeis Competence Day to look at current challenges facing managers
In a world that is becoming increasingly complex and dynamic, it is sometimes important to look at old challenges from a different angle. This requires managers who lead – managers …
Feature Topic: Networks
We are surrounded by networks – neuronal networks, biological networks, data networks, computer networks, electricity networks, travel networks, social networks, business networks... The topic of networks is so broad, it is practically unique. This is something that is understood by …
Dear Readers,
Innovation is stimulated through the exchange with others. Networking is an important foundation for this. There are extremely few areas of business that can survive without networking, but that does not make it a guaranteed key to success. It is …
New Ecosystems Stemming from Digital Transformation and Networking – Also a Challenge for Science
In times of increasing digital transformation and networking (DT&N), more and more people are talking about the emergence of new ecosystems. What do they mean by that? Are these digital or business ecosystems, or a bit of both? And to …
The Role of Networks in the Process of Digital Transformation
How to make creative destruction something positive
A term on many people’s lips these days is “digital transformation,” which actually encompasses a number of processes that run in parallel. These will have a lasting impact on society in the years …
“Forming collaborative networks is the most promising answer to technology convergence”
An interview with Professor Dr. Peter Philippi-Beck (Steinbeis Transfer Center for Internationalisation – Equity Participation – Succession Regulation) and Hans-Joachim Hölz (Steinbeis Transfer Center for the Ravensburg District/WiR GmbH Ravensburg District/Steinbeis Transfer GmbH – Ravensburg- Weingarten University of Applied Sciences.)
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Expert Network X.0
Networking that adds value Business concepts like Industry 4.0 have to take the already advanced and continually advancing trend of digital transformation into account, not to mention the process of continually accelerating convergence between different fields of technology, sectors of …
“By pooling specific core competences, we can exploit the maximum potential to innovate”
An interview with Stefan Gaier, director of the Steinbeis Consulting Center for Innovation Management
For many years, the Steinbeis Consulting Center for Innovation Management has been overseeing the networking of small and mediumsized companies as part of the ZIM program …
Open Innovation Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Collaboration helps accelerate innovation
For SMEs, opening up in-house innovation processes can be crucial for their competitiveness. Cooperations make it possible to pool a wide variety of competences and quickly launch successful products with the support of others. Steinbeis 2i …
Innovation Angels Create Space to Innovate
Providing more support for companies sharing technology know-how
A Baden-Wuerttemberg initiative called “Business Technology Transfer Dialog” has fueled a new concept for a model project to introduce Innovation Angels to help bolster knowledge and technology transfer between enterprises. Aimed primarily …
A Network for Sustainable Energy Systems
Steinbeis Centers join forces to set up a center of competence
Energy and energy efficiency topics feature in political, economic, and social discussion every day and the issues they raise are becoming increasingly important. There is broad agreement that we …
The Industrial Internet Consortium – More Than Just a Network
Digital solutions spanning different sectors of industry: interdisciplinary and international
On the surface, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) would appear to be just one of many networks revolving around the industrial internet and Industry 4.0 (connected manufacturing). But actually it …
“Relationships have to be looked after, and it takes communication to ensure the network won’t break down”
An interview with Frank Graage, director of the Steinbeis Research Center Technology Management North East
If networks are to be a success, what’s the best way to manage them? What benefits does this bring about – and what risks? TRANSFER …
If You Don’t Hone Your Networks, You’re Not Worth Contacting
Steinbeis experts reveal how to network
Successful networking isn’t ego-marketing, as Carsten Rasner, director of the Steinbeis School of Management and Innovation (SMI, Steinbeis University Berlin), knows. This message hasn’t been understood by everyone – as an example involving Donald …
“The variety of different outlooks and expertise within the team allows so much energy and momentum to unfurl”
An interview with Beate Wittkopp, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center TransferWorks BW
With so many networks now available, it can often be a dilemma for companies working out which ones are right for them. Yet networking is crucial for …
SMEs are Slipping Through the Net!
Networking without a network
How well is Germany faring when it comes to internet broadband access, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises? Answer: It’s middling! We’re standing on the sidelines when they crown the broadband champions and the gap is …
Turning the Spotlight on Surface Water
Researchers quantify the ecotoxicological impact of pharmaceuticals in real time
Demographic change in industrial nations is fueling stronger demand for pharmaceuticals. We are already seeing major volumes of substances with pharmacological effects entering the waste water system and sewage treatment …
“Digitalization is the foundation upon which the innovative power of the future will be built”
An interview with Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister of Economic Affairs, Labor, and Housing
Big data, digital solutions, and networking are all terms that reflect a trend toward what many Germans now call Industry 4.0. What they don’t express is …
Public Private Partnership in Asian Vocational Education
Steinbeis experts provide advice as part of GIZ project
For the past three years, the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) has been involved in a policy dialog project revolving around vocational training in Asia. The project is called the …
Microfinancing and Crowdfunding for Business Founders
Steinbeis experts provide consulting services for state bank MikroCrowd program
Since May, startup companies in Baden-Wuerttemberg may be eligible for support under a new funding program called MikroCrowd, which is offered through the state bank (L-Bank). MikroCrowd is a combination …
The Do’s and Don’ts of Introducing Knowledge Management
Steinbeis experts provide support on the analysis of an automotive client’s level of maturity
An interesting assignment for the team at the Steinbeis Consulting Center for Knowledge Management in Augsburg: A carmaker asked the consultants for support with the introduction …
Just Test(bed) IT – The Successful Way to Add Value
A review of the Steinbeis Engineering Day 2017
Organized by the Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute (FSTI) in collaboration with the German regional team of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), this year’s Steinbeis Engineering Day was an invitation to take part in …
Full Steam Ahead for Basalt Fiber Production
Steinbeis experts develop process for purifying and activating basalt fibers
Melt basalt and it creates a material consisting of several minerals called basalt fiber. These minerals are primarily of natural volcanic origin, or in technical terms: They are geogenic. Unlike …
Giving a Strategic Helping Hand to New Ideas
SHB student designs innovation process for multi-departmental platform projects
Innovation, technological progress, and fostering new ideas based on existing competences – key factors that motivated HOERBIGER Holding AG (Zug, Switzerland) to adopt a new approach in its corporate business development …
China’s Medical Supply Chain in Times of Change
Steinbeis Consulting Center produces study on the Chinese biomedical market
The Chinese medical supply market is dictated by an imbalance between the regions of the country along the Pacific coast, which have gained in prosperity, and the provinces in the …