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 …
“Relationships have to be looked after, and it takes communication to ensure the network won’t break down”
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 …
The Starting Point for Implementing Digital Transformation: Excellent Teaching
Steinbeis experts develop tool kit-based PLM teaching module PLM-Tactile
Digitalization in combination with Industry 4.0 (cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things) will decide the destiny of German industry. A successful transformation within a company requires the horizontal integration (also …
The Testing Aspects of Automated Driving
Steinbeis experts develop a framework to evaluate the robustness of electronic control unit software
The transition to fully autonomous vehicles, which would automatically assume total responsibility of the driving maneuvers automatically performed, is a major challenge for the automotive industry, …
New certification courses: Competence Coach (SHB) and Competence Trainer (SHB)
Employee development at the Steinbeis Transfer Institute competence institute unisono
In collaboration with the coaching network Competence on Top, the Steinbeis Transfer Institute competence institute unisono (kiu) introduced two new certification courses in January. The training to become a Competence …
Award for Continuing Professional Development Project
Steinbeis certifies course for training concept
Services are one of those “hot potato” topics, not just for customers but also for the people who deliver the service. By looking at needs and desires from different angles, professional services can be …
The Quick, Quiet, and Low-Cost Road to an Eco-Friendly Future
Steinbeis Consultant provides support with the setting up of e-scooter sales structures
What’s the quickest and most inexpensive way to travel a mile to work? This question resulted in the development of the business model for eScooter-fun.com. For Alexander Heinzelmann, …
Four Parties in One Network = Success
Steinbeis experts provide inventor with a helping hand entering the healthcare market
Dr. Michael Fürst, medical expert from the Upper Swabian city of Bad Wurzach, had been filing away at an innovative product with major market potential for a long …
Committed to Future Forms of Production
Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum runs a support center for the Vanguard Initiative in Baden-Wuerttemberg
The Vanguard initiative involves around 30 European regions, which have formed an alliance to “lead by example” and boost innovation and industrial growth in the EU. The core topics …
Inspired by Photonics
EU PHABLABS 4.0 project inspires the next generation
Light is one of those areas of technology that excites people. There are so many different sides to light, spanning a variety of fields. In fact, there are very few areas that …
Using Implants Without Side Effects
Research team working on EU IMMODGEL project develops innovative hydrogel-based system
Implants often trigger undesirable immune responses. The partners working on the EU IMMODGEL research project have developed a system consisting of chemical and biological components to avoid such negative …
Digital Product Service Systems – New Business Models for Manufacturing Companies
Steinbeis experts conduct research into the use of Product Service Systems as part of the Use PSS network
Digitalization is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Everything regarding digital transformation revolves around the customer, whose expectations regarding products and the companies …
Feature Topic: Mobility
When people use the word mobility, they’re primarily referring to spatial movement – the moving around of living beings or objects within a physical space, building, or geographical area. The fact that mobility is now used to refer to much …
News from the Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute
Projects aimed at promoting digitalization
The Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute (FSTI) is part of the Steinbeis Foundation and as a research faculty of Steinbeis University Berlin (SHB) it conducts research into digitalization. The experts at the FSTI are involved in a …
On the Road to Industry 4.0: The Transformation of Mobility
Travel is not only a basic need, but also an expression of the freedom and flexibility of our modern age
In today’s society there are few topics that arouse such emotions and personal interest as the topic of travel, because …
“Multimodal transportation solutions are growing more and more important”
A conversation with Professor Dr. Peter Neugebauer, Director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Automotive Testing and Professor for Vehicle Electronics at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
How can a vehicle be protected from cyber-attacks? What will travel and transportation …
Safeguarding Mobility – Including in Old Age
The mechanical engineering specialist Reiser AG has been working with Steinbeis experts on the development of an electrically driven walking frame Demographic change is resulting in an aging population and this is raising the importance of mobility in old age. …
“The driver should become redundant”
An interview with Dr. Oliver Bühler and Dr. Daniel Ulmer, managing directors of Steinbeis Interagierende Systeme GmbH
Will we still be driving cars in the future or will cars drive us? To answer this question, a colossal volume of test …
Making Electric Vehicles Efficient and Safe!
Steinbeis experts help ARADEX with the implementation of a functional safety standard
ARADEX is a specialist producer of efficient power transmission systems and has been working with the Steinbeis Transfer Center for System Design on a joint project looking at …
“Probably the biggest challenge at the moment will be to solve mobility systems as part of an overall strategy”
An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Markus Stöckner, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Infrastructure Management in Transportation
Mobility – being able to get around – is essential for any society to function properly. When looking at mobility, it’s important …
Volatility in the General Cargo Logistics Market
Steinbeis experts co-develop a forecasting tool
The Steinbeis Innovation Center for Research in Transport and Logistics is working alongside TLT Berlin as part of a 12-month research initiative sponsored by the State of Brandenburg. The aim of the project is …