Organising Innovation + Technology
We are putting innovation policy into action.
It is the aim of innovation policy to bring the innovative power of research and industry to bear.
As office, network and process manager, we support our clients in developing and implementing their activities.
- We manage offices and contact bureaus for public programmes.
- We organise accompanying measures to remove innovation barriers.
- We organise competitions in the field of innovation policy.
- We are concerned with setting up and managing networks related to industrial policy.
- We provide consultancy for innovation policy.
- We inform and network small and medium-sized enterprises, inter alia, by offering workshops and conferences.
We would be pleased to support your innovation project as well. Contact us!
Project Examples
Demea - Deutsche Materialeffizienzagentur
Die demea soll Unternehmen über die Bedeutung der Materialeffizienz informieren und sie bei der Lokalisierung und Erschließung von Einsparpotentialen zur Steigerung ihrer Rentabilität und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit unterstützen. Mit dem Impulsprogramm Materialeffizienz gibt die Bundesregierung Unternehmen des verarbeitenden Gewerbes Anreize, die eigene Materialeffizienz zu steigern.
EPoSS – European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration
The technology platform EPoSS is a cross-application network with its focus on smart systems and micro-nano integration. Public and industrial stakeholders from this field are brought together here. The incentive is to establish durable structures and initiatives, which further the European innovation policy and research environment. Since 2005, VDI/VDE-IT has been responsible for the management of the EPoSS’ agency.
FlexNet – Network of Excellence for Flexible, Organic and Large Area Electronics
FlexNet aims to further strengthen the global top position of Europe in the field of flexible, organic and large area electronics. A better co-operation between established experts and future players in Southern and Eastern Europe shall be promoted. A further focus is set to further integrate small and medium-sized enterprises and to improve university education in the sector to match the need of qualified personnel. VDI/VDE-IT takes the administrative and is responsible for dissemination and networking with other initiatives.
Founder Contest – IKT innovative
The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) is supporting the start up of companies, which focus on products and services in the information and communications technology sector, via the Founder Contest – IKT innovative. The biannual contest awards considerable prizes as seed money for the start up. All winners receive an individual coaching, according to their needs. The VDI/VDE-IT organizes the award on behalf of the ministry.
Industrial Network Renewable Energies Saxony
Internationally, Saxony is one of the leading energy technology locations. With the help of the VDI/VDE-IT lead agency of the EESA Initiative, the free state of Saxony aims at supporting this positive trend. The initiative wants to improve and extend the innovation power, the productivity and the export power of Saxony’s industry. This is accomplished through the strategic network made up of companies and research and educational institutions.
InnovuM – innovation supporting measures for Microsystems Technology
Preliminary strategic discussion courses, measures for the diffusion of results and the integration in the European and international context accompany the support for the Microsystems Technology in the InnovuM project. For this the VDI/VDE-IT analyses obstacles for the implementation of research results into economically exploitable innovations and helps to overcome them. The necessary interaction between different players in the innovation process makes InnovuM special: Researchers and developers, producers, resellers, users, customers, policy makers, public supporters and financiers.
IoT-A: Internet of Things - Architecture
IoT-A is the first major research project which aims at creating an universally applicable architecture for the future Internet of Things on an European level – consisting of hardware, software, network and further components. The VDI/VDE-IT co-ordinates the projects in which the German industry is strongly represented.
IoT-i: Internet of Things-Initiative
The project IoT-i is a co-ordination measure. It aims at bringing together the fragmented group of parties which is involved in the development of the Internet of Things. These parties come from the industry, research and public institutions. The measure is intended to quicken the transfer of research concepts and results into marketable solutions. VDI/VDE-IT is a strong partner within the project and is responsible for the community building and the communication work. Further partners are SAP, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Telenor.
IRISS - Implementation of Research and Innovation on Smart Systems Technologies
Europäische Kommission
Ziel des EU-Projekts IRISS ist es, politische, strategische und inhaltliche Empfehlungen für die Forschungsförderung im Bereich Smart Systems zu geben und somit das europäische Innovationssystem im Bereich von Smart Systems Integration zu verbessern. Die 16 Konsortialpartner und 11 assoziierten Partner aus Industrie und Wissenschaft entwickeln in der zweijährigen Projektlaufzeit Strategien für eine verbesserte Abstimmung zwischen nationalen und europäischen Programmen und zur Kooperation und Einbindung von KMU in der Wertschöpfungskette. Sie fördern den Einsatz von Smart Systems in den Bereichen Gesundheit und Produktion, entwickeln Roadmaps und stärken nicht zuletzt die internationale Zusammenarbeit. VDI/VDE-IT übernimmt die Gesamtprojektleitung von IRISS.
IT2Green - Energy-Efficient ICT for SMEs, Administration and Habitation
The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology supports - through the "IT2Green - Energy-Efficient ICT for SMEs, Administration and Habitation" technology contest - research and development activities, which lead to advanced model solutions for energy- and resource efficient ICT in application fields with a broad impact. The VDI/VDE-IT organizes the public relations for the programme's accompanying research, whose content is created and coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institutes for Reliability and Micro-Integration (IZM) and for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).
National Contact Point for Microsystems Technologies
The objective of the National Contact Point (NCP) for Microsystems Technologies is to simplify access for German participants to projects of the research programme, especially SMEs. This contributes to the intensification of their participation in European projects. The NCP also facilitates an efficient representation of German MST actors’ interests on a European level, through its incorporation in the EU’s direct information flow as well as providing feedback from European projects for the BMBF. VDI/VDE-IT functions as the national contact point for the research programme Microsystems Technologies.
The Kompetenznetze Deutschland Initiative
The Kompetenznetze Deutschland Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology brings together the best-performing innovation clusters in Germany. The agency is located with the VDI/VDE-IT. It advises networks and guarantees the quality and representativeness of its members. The agency is also responsible for intensive cooperation with the competence networks and offers diverse services, which are in line with demand.
X10D - Efficient, low-cost, stable tandem organic devices
The European project X10D aims to enable organic photovoltaics (OPV) to enter the competitive thin-film PV market. It will achieve this by pooling the knowledge and expertise of the leading research institutes and start-up companies in Europe. VDI/VDE-IT is partner in the project.
