Add creativity to the unconventional and the result is success
A recent Steinbeis project has shown the best way to manage technology transfer in business and how to make a success out of projects through systematic cooperation. For the project, …
From Four to One
Innovating Differently – New Angles on Technology Transfer
A look back at a kick-off Steinbeis event at the State Gallery in Stuttgart
With its high columns, the room chosen at the State Gallery in Stuttgart could not have been a better setting for the first staging of the …
The Steinbeis Perspective Program: A Win-Win Situation for Participants and Companies
The Steinbeis University program provides support with the integration of refugees in the German employment market
Marwan Shaaban is 26. In the summer of 2015 he fled his home in Syria and came to Germany. Now, two years later, the …
Quo Vadis Baden-Wuerttemberg?
Former economics minister Ernst Pfister gives a speech at Business School Alb-Schwarzwald on the future of Baden- Wuerttemberg
Ernst Pfister is practically “part of the furniture” in state politics in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Originally from Trossingen, Pfister was a long-standing member of …
Management and Technology Update for Technicians and Engineers
SHB certification course on current best practice know-how in business administration and engineering
Technical experts are keen to keep moving forward, have their say, and be part of business decision-making. To do this, it is essential to have a solid …
ICE/IEEE TEMS International Technology Management Conference 2018
Expert conference to take place for first time in Baden-Wuerttemberg
A successful outcome for bwcon GmbH, Steinbeis, and the IST Innovation Institute (Constance University of Applied Sciences), who together applied to stage the 2018 ICE/IEEE TEMS International Technology Management Conference: …
Standing Strong
Steinbeis experts develop cement-free casting compound for industrial floors subject to strong wear and tear
Portland cement has been the most important binding agent mixed into concrete in the construction industry for over 100 years. Over two billion tons of …
A Successful Round of Research with the ZIM
Steinbeis experts present their successful ZIM projects at the SME Innovation Day
As in the past, the SME Innovation Day pulled in the crowds again this year. A good 1,800 visitors descended on Berlin to take a look at over …
Like Father, Like Son?
Steinbeis experts examine the role of transgenerational transfer in relationship patterns
As the experts at the Hamburg-based Steinbeis Consulting Center for Transgenerational Transfer will tell you, psychology, economic science, and technology are closely interwoven. To meet current challenges faced in …
It’s Good Working Here
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 …
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 …