News from the Joint Innovation Hub

In June, the Joint Innovation Hub presented two demonstrators at the "Night of the Knowledge City" (Nacht der Wissensstadt) on the education campus in Heilbronn.

The University:Future Festival (UFFestival) took place from June 5 to 7, 2024 under the motto "Tales of Tomorrow". Lectures, workshops and meet-ups offered a varied program around visions and futures from a society-wide perspective.

On June 7, the Joint Innovation Hub was present at the city festival "Colourful Night of Digitalization" (Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung) in Karlsruhe.

At the German Creative Economy Summit in Hamburg, our innovation expert Dr. Malte Busch discussed with exciting participants from established companies, start-ups, municipalities and science.

This is the question that 16 students of industrial engineering, technical economics and business informatics are investigating in the seminar "Development of sustainable digital business models" at the Chair of Innovation and Technology Management (iTM) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Our innovation expert Dr. Malte Busch spoke at the Amprion Innovation Symposium at the Zeche Zollverein in Essen on the role of innovation culture for corporate success.

On March 27, 2023, we discussed the topic of "Alternative Economic Systems" together with colleagues from Fraunhofer ISI and two guests from the scientific community. The current global situation involving multiple crises and the resulting major changes to the economic, ecological, geopolitical and social levels give rise to the question as to whether the German economic system in its existing form is viable for the future.

Which current and future developments can have a radical impact on your business model and how can you make your business model crisis-proof? We explored these questions in the Joint Innovation Hub on July 14, 2022, in a workshop together with a total of eight research institutions and companies from the mechanical engineering and plant construction sectors, the food industry, the banking sector, and the energy sector.

On July 5, 2021, the Joint Innovation Hub hosted an innovation workshop on how companies can improve their capacity to innovate and navigate their way into the future.

On May 17, 2021, an experimental session was held on the topic of mobility. We discussed what mobility might look like in 2030 with our colleagues at the institute and guests from science and industry.