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Programme at a Glance and Content
FAME Investor Workshop
Programme at a Glance and Content
12:00
Opening of Pitching Session
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Andreas Reuter, EML European Media Laboratory GmbH
Dr. Jürgen Jähnert, MFG Innovation Agency for ICT and Media
From 09:00 – 12:00 participants
discuss about four topics: „Investing in Creative Industries“, „Cross-Border
.
Investments“, „Public-Private Investments“ and “Investment Readiness and Investment Awareness”.
Five speakers talk about current developments in the field of Venture Capital and participants can exchange
and discuss experiences in the group. This workshop is exclusively for investors.
12:15
13:00
Lunch Break 13:00
08:30
Registration
14:00
Early Stage I
Advanced Stage I
09:00
Welcome and Introduction to the Topic
01 CloudSME ................................................................ 02
Nicola Fantini, Cloud SME project, Germany/Switzerland
02 Smart Factory: Indoor Location-based
Services and Information Push ............................. 03
Mirko Ross, echolot digital worx GmbH, Germany
03 Multi-Viewer 3D (MV3D): Next Generation
Display Technology .................................................. 04
Dr. Somakanthan Somalingam, MV3D GbR, Germany
04 ProOpter.IVS – Production Optimizer ................... 05
Dr. Dejan Gradišar, ProOpter.IVS, Slovenia
05 QDS – Quality Driven Simulations ......................... 06
Michael Reiter, Tobias Unger, QDS, Germany
12 Alleantia....................................................................
Antonio Conati Barbaro, Alleantia, Italy
13 AOM-Systems ...........................................................
Dr. Meiko Hecker, AOM-Systems GmbH, Germany
14 bitstars .....................................................................
Mostafa Akbari, bitstars, Germany
15 CogWatch & CogMargin ...........................................
Adrien Sandrini, Precogs, France
16 SIWIAT – Sensor Integration with Industry
App Technology ........................................................
Wolfgang Clauss, Ondics GmbH, Germany
09:45
Topic I – III
I
II
III
Investing in the Creative Industry
Verena Eisenlohr, Beteiligungsfonds Wirtschaftsförderung Mannheim GmbH
Cross-Border Investment
Gerda Frank, Hoepfner Bräu
Public Private Investment and Q&A Session
Joaquin Soucheiron, KIC InnoEnergy
Questions and Answers
10:45
Coffee Break
11:00
Topic IV
IV
15:00
Meet the Panelists
15:45
Early Stage II
Lunch Break
06 QuantUM+ - A Tool Environment For
Model-Based Functional Safety Analysis ...............
Prof. Dr. Stefan Leue, Germany
07 Lightning-safe Monitoring of Wind Turbine
Rotor Blades Using Optically Powered Sensors....
Christos Klamouris, Germany
08 simQoo – Quality Made Simple ..............................
Stefan Stockey, simQoo, Germany
09 High-Performance Mechanical Simulation
for Virtual Commissioning and Service Robots ....
Fabian Aichele, Germany
10 Trubotics 3DBot .......................................................
Oliver Zweigle, Trubotics, Germany
11 AViSpectro ................................................................
Dr. Tillmann Viefhaus, AViSpectro, Germany
Investment Readiness and Investment Awareness in the CIS
Klaus Haasis, Combine Innovations and Thierry Baujard, Peacefulfish
Questions and Answers
Keynote-Speaker
Julie Meyer, Founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital London
Julie Meyer believes that Individual Capitalism aligns and releases people’s ingenuity for the solving of the world’s problems at the macro and
micro levels as well as accelerating the future. She is one of the leading champions for entrepreneurship in Europe and the UK as a force for
growth and inclusiveness. Since she arrived in Paris, France in September 1988, she has advised technology firms and backed Europe‘s
entrepreneurs in both Paris and London.
Julie founded Ariadne Capital in August 2000 to create a new model for the financing of entre-preneurship in Europe and the UK - “Entrepreneurs Backing Entrepreneurs”. She created the founding Investor Partnership of 60 leading entrepreneurs and business builders who are
Ariadne’s core shareholders. She has led the investments and/or transactions with BeatThatQuote, Espotting, Global Dawn, Monitise, SpinVox,
and Zopa. Julie was part of the early team at NewMedia Investors in 1998, which became early stage investment firm Spark Ventures in October
1999. At NewMedia Investors, she managed deals in key technology companies including ArcCores, lastminute.com and WGSN. Also, in 1998,
she founded First Tuesday, the network of entrepreneurs, which many credit for igniting the Internet generation in Europe. It was sold in
July 2000 for $ 50 million in cash and shares.
She has been named one of INSEAD’s Top 50 Alumni, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, World Economic Forum Global Leader of
Tomorrow, TIME Magazine Digital 50, one of WIRED’s 100, one of London‘s 1000 Most Influential People 2010 & 2011 (Evening Standard) and
one of the Top 30 Most Influential Women in Europe “WSJ Europe”. In 2009 and 2010, Julie was also one of the BBC’s Online Dragons in
the award-winning Dragon’s Den Online, and is also currently setting up a “Dads and Daughters” foundation to support and extend her thesis
that women‘s identities are shaped - for good or bad - by the messages they receive from their father’s as children and young adults. She is on
the Board of Directors of Jellybook PLC, Vestergaard Frandsen, a for profit humanitarian development firm, and INSEAD, her business school,
in addition to Medikidz. In 2011, she was asked to be on the Secretary of State’s Entrepreneurs Panel and the Secretary of Health’s Innovation
Panel. In 2012, Julie was honoured to receive an honorary MBE, for her “services to entrepreneurship”. Julie published her first book “Welcome
to Entrepreneur Country” in June 2012.
Keynote
Julie Meyer, Founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital London
17:15
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Advanced Stage II
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08
09
10
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17 MeshParts ................................................................
Nadina and Alexandru Dadalau, MeshParts, Germany
18 Evercam ....................................................................
Marco Herbst, Evercam, Ireland
19 MeltMe ......................................................................
Eva Rennen, Leonie Smelt, MELT icepops, Netherlands
20 Smoope .....................................................................
Eleftherios Hatziioannou, Halil Mandal,
Smoope GmbH, Germany
21 RapidVacMold – (R)evolutionary Mold
Making within Seconds ...........................................
Frederic Dietze, Weight Works engineering, Germany
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Fail Workshop ............................................................................................................................................................................
Three founders will talk about how they failed with a business idea and share their lessons learnt in an interactive session
with the audience.
- Inge Geerdens, Founder and CEO of CVWarhehouse
- Frank Karlitschek, CTO, Co-founder and Community Leader of ownCloud
- Mark Turrell, Founder and CEO of Orcasci
19:00
13
Reception and Dinner at “S Kastanie”
“Best Business Idea Award”
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Early Stage I
Early Stage I
02
Smart Factory: Indoor Location-based
Services and Information Push
01
CloudSME
Mirko Ross
echolot digital worx GmbH
Schulze-Delitzsch-Str. 16, 70595 Stuttgart, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
Nicola Fantini
CloudSME Project
c/o Sander Werbung GmbH
Hans-Pfitzner-Str. 31, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
[email protected]
Description of the innovation
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Companies which intend to increase their productivity through simulations and
analysis of a wide range of physical and chemical processes, manufacturing systems,
logistics, transportation networks or supply chains. Using simulation in the cloud
allows companies to access recent technologies, without the need of high investments, which increases their productivity in a doube sense. The key values of using
the platform are in line with what can be expected from a corresponding cloud
service: easy to use, speeds up time to market, no need for own HPC infrastructure,
and OpEx instead of CapEx.
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
The focus is on SME‘s in manufacturing and engineering in Europe intending to
improve their efficiency or productivity or intend to use simulations for new product
development. It is intended to expand the scope of the solution to other application
areas and also to approach large corporations and organizations.
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Simulation can significantly
improve the competitive position of manufacturing and engineering companies by
reducing their costs and resulting in more efficient development, production,
procurement, logistics or financial processes. While simulation software is already
widely used by bigger companies in the industry, small and medium-sized companies
(SMEs) still lag behind, due to high barriers of entry that include hardware prices,
licensing costs and technical expertise.
Solution: CloudSME project, which is funded by the European Comission, brings
cloud computing and simulation technologies together by establishing a cloud-based
simulation platform for manufacturing and engineering.
Advantages and benefits: The CloudSME cloud-based simulation platform (SaaS/
PaaS/IaaS) offers the potential for scalable, on-demand access to resources that
can be used to speed up simulation and make it available to SMEs through a onestop-shop, pay-per-use model. Instead of investing into hardware infrastructure and
simulation software licenses, SMEs can just use the solutions without having the
effort to install and operate the infrastructure. For software vendors it offers a new
distribution model allowing to gain customers.
Unique selling point: A one-stop-shop to run simulations focused on SMEs in
manufacturing and engineering in Europe.
Competitors: US-market: www.rescale.com
www.cloudsme.eu
More information
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Regarding services maintenance
inside production facilities there is a need to solve problems as fast as possible. It’s
a challenge to identify service staff nearby, to push the service case and guide them
to the scene by mobile services because GPS or WLAN tracking often fails indoor.
Solution: Using BLE technology (Bluetooth Low Energy) we enable indoor based
location services. Service cases can be linked to a user nearby and notifications can
be pushed to the assigned mobile device. It also allows tracking the user action
and guiding service staff to the trouble scene.
Advantages and benefits: Indoor user-tracking of maintenance staff and just in
time:
• Push information of service cases for faster trouble shooting on production sites
• Navigation by rugged designed low costs BLE beacons transmitters
• ID transmission without QR code, camera is not needed
Unique selling point: We provide the entire solution chain: BLE 4.0 transmitter,
mobile app and content server. And we have many years experience on IT solutions
for manufacturing companies and their service units.
Competitors: BLE 4.0 technology was enabled by Apple with iBeacon for iOS7 in
October 2013. The main focus of market competitors is the point of sale (POS),
e.g. Radius Network. Until today we have not identified solutions or competition for
smart factories based on iBeacon (BLE 4.0).
Indoor mobile support for industrial services:
• Monitoring and guiding on industrial sites
• Track and trace for industrial logistic
• Seamless ID management of industrial goods and staff
Investment of approximately 300.000 EUR required
www.digital-worx.de/ibeacon.html
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Early Stage I
Early Stage I
03
Multi-Viewer 3D (MV3D):
Next Generation Display Technology
Dr. Dejan Gradišar
Jozef Stefan Institute
Department of Systems and Control
Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
E-Mail [email protected]
Dr. Somakanthan Somalingam
MV3D GbR
Mähringer Weg 110-1, 89075 Ulm, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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04
ProOpter.IVS
What is the problem?/Who has this problem?
MV3D is addressing two different issues: Nearly all currently available display devices
are capable of providing single content at a time only. Hence everyone in a room is
limited to this content. Furthermore, the state of the art 3D displays are limited due to
a) wearing glasses b) the viewing angle c) mostly single user optimization.
Solution:
MV3D is capable of providing glass-free 3D experience as well as of individual
contents (also 3D) to multiple viewers on the same device simultaneously. To achieve
that MV3D is to utilize dynamic pixels that can be switched fast by applying electric
voltages.
Advantages and benefits: Individual contents to a group of viewers using the same
device at same time (e.g. in living room, in the car and airplane, etc.), 3D experience
without glasses, as well as individual and targeted infotainment based on gender/age.
Unique selling point: Patent pending and not easy to copy next generation display
technology having superb use cases without limits arising from state of the art
displays.
Competitors: Flat panel makers.
All kind of products and services that need displays: Entertainment and consumer
electronics, mobile handsets, automotive and aviation, medical technology, and
advertisement industry.
Flat panel makers, entertainment and advertisement industries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMvi3b7m2t8
Description of the innovation
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Modern production IT systems
are very efficient in data collection and its presentation, but limited in the support of
decision. One of the challenging problems is how to identify the most relevant
parameters that would optimize the production.
Solution: In our group the collection of tools for analysis of the production dynamics
using complex analytical functions and advanced production control concepts is being
developed – ProOpter. Tool ProOpter.IVS, which is in the highest development stage,
offers a portfolio of versatile yet simple tools for determination of most significant
process variables directly from production database. User-friendly GUI allows for
simple search of optimal production models and their validation.
Advantages and benefits: The approach enables determination of most influential
parameters for the optimization of a single process, device or machine, as well as for
larger production lines.
Unique selling point: Using the support of ProOpter.IVS the parameter optimization
process can be drastically reduced. From our experience at one of the leading
suppliers to worldwide producers of automotive system 1-2 days of experimental
operation are sufficient instead of few months of experiential parameter setting
approach.
Competitors: Manufacturing intelligence add-ins: Ge (Proficy), Oracle Process
Manufacturing, SAP (xMII) ...
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
With the support ProOpter.IVS we can unburden the production manager and help him
to take better decisions in order to improve the production process. In this way, we
can expect savings in various segments in the production such are better product
quality, increasing the efficiency, reduction of waste, production, cost reduction etc.
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
System integrator companies that provide end-users with production management
IT solutions (MES), which can be extended with the ProOpter.IVS functionalities.
According to nowadays’ economic flows, the EU production companies will gain in
its importance and validity, therefore they will need that kind of tools.
http://dsc.ijs.si/dejang/ProOpter/ProOpter_EN.pdf
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Early Stage I
Early Stage II
05
QDS – Quality Driven Simulations
Michael Reiter, Tobias Unger
QDS
Im Flieder 4, 73760 Ostfildern, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
[email protected]
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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06
QuantUM+ – A Tool Environment
for Model-Based Functional Safety
Analysis
Prof. Dr. Stefan Leue
University of Konstanz
Chair for Software Engineering, Department
for Computer and Information Science
Universitätsstr. 10, Box 67, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Poor quality of data in simulations
means useless simulation results and bad decisions based on these results. To avoid
bad decisions, in the automotive domain crash-test simulations must be re-executed
many times or simulation results must be proven many times by real cars to get
trustful results.
Solution: Software and services for data quality controlled simulations at runtime.
We transform the try and error approach actually used in simulations to an intelligent
simulation process.
Advantages and benefits: Our solution reduces the simulation period by 70 %. The
benefits: more efficient simulations, save time and money, and get trustful results.
Unique selling point: We provide transparency of simulation quality in real-time
and the possibility to adapt simulation data, parameter, and algorithms at runtime by
using Business Process Management (BPM) methodology.
Competitors: MathWorks, ADDITIVE, etc. But, no competitor combines simulation
technology, BPM, and business intelligence (BI) to enables a real-time, transparent
control of simulations based on data quality.
• Efficient execution and management of simulation data and processes (driving
dynamics, energy saving, crash test). (simulation data statt simulations data)
• Efficient management and execution of engineering and manufacturing processes
(virtual design and testing).
• Target customers: Automotive
• 500.000 EUR: Marketing and sales, Data Quality innovations (Data Quality based
BPM platform).
www.qualityBPM.com
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Software controls cars, planes,
medical equipment and many other safety-critical embedded and cyber-physical
systems. The malfunctioning of those systems can harm people physically or cause
significant financial losses. Manual safety analysis methods required by safety
standards are costly and unreliable. The industry needs software tools that support
automated safety analysis for model based development processes (UML/SysML)
in order to comply with safety standards in a cost-effective manner.
Solution: QuantUM+ is a tool environment that offers automated model-based
functional safety analysis, is tailored to industrial domain needs, and possesses a
sound scientific foundation.
Advantages and benefits: Fully automated safety analysis, development cost
savings.
Unique selling point: Integration with industrial design tools (IBM Rhapsody,
Enterprise Architect, etc.)
Competitors: No other automatic safety analysis tool with similar capabilities
exists. The market entry barriers for competitors are high due to required know-how
in both the scientific foundation and the industrial domain.
QuantUM+ is a tool for automated safety analysis that blends well into industrial
system engineering processes. It relieves the engineer from time consuming and
error-prone manual safety analyses and hence entails savings in development cost.
All manufacturers and suppliers of safety-critical systems such as companies in the
following domains: automotive, avionics, medical equipment, nuclear energy, space,
critical infrastructures, and more.
www.quantum-tool.com
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Early Stage II
Schnittstellen
Early Stage II
Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikationssysteme
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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13:30 h
04
08
Cognitive
Radio: Made Simple
simQoo
– Quality
Umgebungsbezogene Erfahrung
durch mobile Endgeräte
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Lightning-safe Monitoring of Wind
Turbine Rotor Blades Using Optically
Powered Sensors
Christos Klamouris
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute for Information Processing
Technology (ITIV)
Engesserstr. 5, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
29. November 2005
Prof. Dr.Stockey
Friedrich Jondral
Stefan
Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
simQoo
Institut für12,
Informatik
Kaiserstr.
76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
Musterstraße
23, 74786 Karlsruhe
E-Mail
[email protected]
Telefon 0721/5040-300
E-Mail [email protected]
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Wind turbine rotor blades experience
frequently damages due to their exposure to highly variable, harsh weather conditions
and to constantly changing excessive loads. Condition monitoring systems (CMS) based
on electrical sensors provide a safe and reliable way to automatically detect them,
before they develop into sudden and catastrophic failure. The operational lifetime of
rotor blades can be therefore extended, while maintenance and downtime costs are
significantly reduced. These advantages are however counterbalanced by the high
susceptibility of conventional CMS to not infrequent lightning effects. The latter may
induce high voltages and currents in the copper cabling, commonly used to power the
sensors, resulting in severe damage of the electronic sensor components.
Solution: Optically powered systems use fiber-optic instead of copper cables for
powering remote electrical sensor units and for exchanging data with them. To operate
electrical sensors, light is converted at the sensor site to electrical power.
Advantages and benefits: Power delivery over non-conductive fiber optic cables
provides complete galvanic isolation and immunity to lightning effects. The lightning
safety is combined with the reliability and cost effectiveness of conventional sensors.
Unique selling point: Almost every kind of electrical sensor, that could be useful for
precise rotor blade condition monitoring, can be operated. The novel technology brings
additionally higher flexibility in sensor placement towards the blade tip, thus enhancing
CMS functionality.
Competitors: The Power-by-Light principle was first introduced by Bell Labs in 1979.
Power-by-Light is a reliable alternative power delivery technology for electronic and
sensor equipment, concerning industrial, smart-grid and safety applications.
We cooperate strongly with the market leader in rotor blade condition monitoring
systems. Our focus is furthermore on OEM business, e.g. sensor system
manufacturers.
www.itiv.kit.edu/optowind
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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www.eml-development.de/deutsch/forschung/smartweb/
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Early Stage II
Early Stage II
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High-Performance Mechanical
Simulation for Virtual Commissioning
and Service Robots
Fabian Aichele
Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems,
University of Stuttgart
Universitätsstr. 38, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
Description of the innovation
Dr. rer. nat. Oliver Zweigle
Trubotics
Tannenbergstr. 69, 70374 Stuttgart , Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
What is the problem?/Who has this problem?
Developers who implement and test control programs in automated manufacturing lines
are currently not using virtual models when the processes are massively dependent on
run-time data. Thus, programming and testing can only start after the commissioning of
manufacturing lines is completed.
Solution: A high-performance rigid body simulation serves as core component
to simulate CAD-constructed objects in real-time. The user can develop and test with
a “hardware in the loop” approach, using real control devices of industrial/service
robots; robots and their environments are simulated. Programmers can start software
development during the initial design phase, much earlier than currently possible.
Advantages and benefits: Cost reduction through increased reliability of control
programs: More time available for testing/debugging. Better diagnosis and support after
start of operation. Shorter commissioning times: Development can already start during
design phase.
Unique selling point: Visual debugging: Interactive design and test of control programs,
via real-time capable rigid body engine. Support for large triangle meshes: The simulation
is able to use the full geometric detail of the models instead of simplified collision
geometries.
Competitors: Similar products: ISG virtuos, Industrial Physics, 3D Realize, Mech. Designer
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Developing and testing highly dynamic manufacturing processes like assembly, error
recovery and position strategies, as well as tasks involving a high degree of mechanical
interactions between tools and work pieces.
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
Potential market: Machine building/automotive/aerospace industry and suppliers;
engineering consultants & commissioning suppliers; developers/users in service robotics
and robotic-related research fields.
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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Trubotics
More information
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? ? A lot of autonomous robots are
provided as development platforms that are adapted to specific requirements. Nevertheless there is a lack of solutions that run directly out-of the box for well-defined
problems e.g. in transportation or 3D scan automation. For example 3D laser scanning
is extremely time-consuming, cumbersome and intensive in personnel cost. One 3D
scan takes around 8-12 min, while one scan-project in a large and unstructured area
requires up to 500 scans.
Solution: An autonomous mobile robot which executes time-consuming tasks like 3D
scanning or transportation. In order to set up the path, the operator shows the robot
initially the environment using an intuitive GUI in a quick run. Consequently the
robot is able to navigate autonomously to execute a complete project without human
intervention.
Advantages and benefits:
• Decrease human resources and personnel cost significantly
• Support the automation processes
Unique selling point:
• Running out of the box without adaption
• Low price (approx. $ 60k)
Competitors: –
• Automation of processes without changes in the infrastructure (no rails, artificial
landmarks, etc. are needed)
• Significant decrease of human resources and personnel costs
• Automation of 3D environment scans for measurement and surveillance purposes
• Usage in hazardous environments
• Companies and engineering offices that work on medium and large 3D scanning
projects
• Companies that need to automate processes without interference in the current
infrastructure
www.trubotics.de
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Early Stage II
Advanced Stage I
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AViSpectro
Dr. Tillmann Viefhaus
TTI GmbH – AViSpectro TGU
Robert-Mayer-Str. 13, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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Alleantia
Antonio Conati Barbaro
Alleantia
Via Umberto Forti 24/14, 56052 Pisa, Italy
E-Mail [email protected]
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Coal power plants face the
problem to comply with more and more restrictive standards for emission of
pollutants. Especially the amount of formed or forming of CO2 and hazardous
substances must be reduced. The pharma industry needs information about
synthesis and purification of medical agents and mixtures. This information has to
be made available during synthesis and the following purification procedures.
Solution: The method AViSpectro uses is called Ramanspectroscopy (RE) and is
based on investigation of the samples by light. The information collected in this way
shows the type of a substance. Combined with software and specific evaluation
methods it is possible to identify inorganic and organic substances. All kind of
chemical compounds, except metals, can be identified in this way.
Advantages and benefits: The AViSpectro method can be used in case of coatings
with a layer thickness of only few micrometers. Particle analysis can also be done
down to the same size of the measured material. If continous detections are
necessary it can be coupled with chemical reactors or other analytic equipment.
Unique selling point: Individual solutions for customers and problem based
hard- and software. Building up of reference data bases which are focused on both,
industrial and scientific application. The customer can save the costs for buying
equipment and development.
Competitors: Analytic companies like Institut Fresenius, TÜV und DEKRA, which
however are focused on different fields of analytic and methods.
Description of the innovation
Fields are test series of R & D, failure analysis at pilot plants and routine use in
production. Splitting of the costs is about e.g.:
• Process analytic and quality control (z.B. power plants, new processes of energy
production i.e. batteries): ca. 1 - 2 %
• Chemical engineering for special chemicals (i.e. chemical reactors): up to ca. 5 %
• Production and quality control of pharmaceutical agents: up to ca. 20 %
There is enough market potential for AViSpectro since German and European
companies of the mentioned industrial branches are ranked as big shots.
Potential
Potential
buyers/licensees/
applications
investors (industries,
in industry
(market niches,companies)
increased
productivity)
Power plants and manufacturers, engineering for chemical fuels, pharma industry.
www.avispectro.com
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Enterprises need a comprehensive
information gathering and remote control capability for any existing and new
device (“things”), for easy and fast access via web and mobile, data integration with
Enterprise ICT systems (ERP, Business Intelligence). However, “things” are generally
not built for that, using many languages, models, logic, resulting in expensive,
ad hoc/vendor-dependent solutions, slow to deploy, incomplete, not cost-effective,
requiring specialist for its implementation.
Solution: A method (X-PANGO) for creating interoperable software maps for any
device; a complete IoT platform; vertical products for web and mobile monitoring
and control.
Advantages and benefits: Bridging the gap between “Things” and “Internet”.
Integrating with existing and new sensors and devices. Lower total cost – 10 minutes
to deploy a full system at 1/3 of cost.
Unique selling point: Make devices interoperable irrespective of vendors and
technology, vendor independence, zero-coding products deployment.
Competitors: SCADA Software providers (Movicon, Rockwell, Wonderware) and
new IoT platform providers (Eurotech, Thingworks, Xively).
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Equipment maintenance (proactive / predictive maintenance, cost optimization),
business intelligence (product quality analysis, customer behaviour), new business
models (pay-per-use), asset management, energy management, fleet management.
Status of the business idea
Potential
Desiredbuyers/licensees/
cooperation with
investors (industries,
or industry
in connection with this
companies)
project
More information
Product buyers: equipment manufacturers (improving quality, implement proactive
maintenance, customer care, customers knowledge), any enterprise (optimize asset
usage, technical operations, business processes), contractors (maintenance, engineering
and construction). Investors: high-tech venture funds, corporate ventures (industrial).
www.alleantia.com/en
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Advanced Stage I
Advanced Stage I
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AOM-Systems
Dr. Meiko Hecker
AOM-Systems GmbH
Alarich-Weiss-Str. 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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bitstars
Mostafa Akbari
bitstars
Ahornstraße, 52074 Aachen, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? The characterization of drops
and particles in flows is often an essential monitoring task in process engineering,
for example in spray drying or paint spraying. Conventional techniques have severe
limitations when dealing in real time, in situ and with non-transparent particles
or drops.
Solution: AOM-Systems has developed SpraySpy®, to enable size, velocity and
concentration measurements of non-transparent droplets in real time and in situ for
quality management applications.
Advantages and benefits: Integration in quality management systems. Optimization
of operation parameters. Better product quality. Reduced downtime and lost
production. Higher flow and production rates. Better compliance to environmental
guidelines. Reduced maintenance costs. Reduction of overspray in spray painting.
Reduction of necessary feedstock in spray drying.
Unique selling point: Transparent and non-transparent droplets and particles.
Individual droplet measuring. Real time. In situ. Forward scattering and backscattering. Easy to use.
Competitors: TSI, Sympatec, Dantec, Malvern …
Sensor for cost reduction, for process optimization, and for quality management
system integration in the coating industry, the paint spray industry (e.g.: car
or furniture manufacturing),and the Spray drying industry (e.g. food and pharma
industry).
1. Paint spray industry: Equipment/paint manufacturer, automotive industry
2. Spray drying industry: Equipment manufacturer & food, pharma/chemical industry
3. Coating industry: pharmaceutical industry
4. Other industries: all industries with spray processes
www.aom-systems.com
Description of the innovation
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Internet of things and wearables
are missing an interface to communicate or visualize their data.
Solution: An easy to use tool to build a smart interaction interface to internet of
things and wearables
Advantages and benefits: Saving time on the job by getting the right information in
context in a smart understandable way.
Unique selling point: Machine Learning Algorithms to make data from IoT and
wearables smart + own set of creation and development tools for augmented reality
sofware.
Competitors: Metaio, Qualcom, 13thLabs & Dekko have own AR-SDKs but focus on
Consumer Marketing & Games and are specialized in 2D not 3D AR.
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Clients can personalize their machines, art and everyday objects with their own
augmented reality content. Usable e.g. for augmented reality work instructions
especially for maintenance and service.
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
Focus on manufacturing companies with more than 50 employees. Around 22k
companies in Germany, 56k in the US. We start with the German market and
focus on the 4,700 members of VDMA & ZVEI, because of their interest in new
technologies and industry 4.0. Exit opportunities: IPO, Google, Bosch, Siemens
More information
www.linkedin.com/company/bitstars, www.youtube.com/user/bitstars, bitstars.com
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Advanced Stage I
Advanced Stage I
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CogWatch & CogMargin
Adrien Sandrini
Precogs
96 Bis Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France
E-Mail [email protected]
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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SIWIAT – Sensor Integration
with Industry App Technology
Wolfgang Clauss
Ondics GmbH
Neckarstraße 66/1a, 73728 Esslingen, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Electronic manufacturers
constantly encounter the challenges of supply and demand imbalance, as a result
of lack of accurate sales forecasting and random production yields. The end effect
for their management teams are constantly shifting supply lead times, component
pricing fluctuations, production cycle interruptions, logistic over-costs, and overstocking that can lead to obsolete component stock.
Solution: Our solutions improve and fortify supply chains through prescriptive
data analytics that offer advanced identification of component supply and demand
imbalances, and illustrate pricing discrepancies of electronic components.
Advantages and benefits: EMS & OEM companies have gained end-to-end visibility
over the volatility of electronic component disruptions to the production cycle and
procurement negotiations, substantially reducing their supply chain costs by millions
of dollars.
Unique selling point: Targeted action list of every individual electronic component,
prioritized by severity to the supply chain or to procurement.
Competitors: Kinaxis, Polydyne Software, Lytica
Real-time web based updates of electronic component disruptions, based on
machine learning principles. Global pricing analysis of every individual electronic
component to provide the most competitive pricing data for procurement
negotiations.
Our potential clients: Electronic Manufacturing Service Companies; Original
Electronic Manufacturers
Investment needed: approx. EUR 1,000,000
www.precogs.com; Twitter: @Precogs_com; www.linkedin.com/company/precogssoftware
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Integration of industrial sensors
and transmitters into processes still requires skilled engineers, much time and
a high budget. Since Industry 4.0 and Internet-IoT demand starts to happen in all
manufacturing and chemical sectors, integration solutions are required urgently.
Solution: Our solution SIWIAT (Sensor Integration with Industry App Technology)
combines industry grade embedded hardware, web and app technology. Customers
can enhance the growing number of apps by developing and sharing their apps
using our new Industry App Store.
Advantages and benefits: Using SIWIAT and our app technology, sensor integration
becomes easy, fast and cheap. In our Industry App Store, customers can get any app
to exactly match the evolving needs.
Unique selling point: The growing number of apps in our industry app store
outplays any traditional feature rich embedded solution. We provide the first App
Store for embedded devices.
Competitors: ISensus, Digitron, Silver-Atena, Linemetrics
• Sensor integration in manufacturing processes
• Climate monitoring for agricultural and traffic meteorological stations
• ISO-Documentation for climate chambers (ISO 17025, certification labs, chemical
industry)
• Industry process visualization on mobile devices, browsers and in the cloud
Buyers: Manufacturing and chemical Industry, Governments that operate agro and
traffic meteo monitoring networks
Licensees (OEM available): Sensor manufacturers, Global Industry 4.0 player
Investors: They same who invest in manufacturing process technology
industry-app-technology.com, siwiat.com
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Advanced Stage II
Advanced Stage II
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MeshParts
Alexandru Dadalau
MESHPARTS GmbH
Seidenstr. 36, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
[email protected]
Description of the innovation
Marco Herbst
Evercam
12 Parnell Sq. East, Dublin 1, Ireland
E-Mail [email protected]
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? As we look back over fifty years
of finite element (FE) simulations, we see far too few companies benefiting from it.
Most of the machine tools and handling systems manufacturers do not apply
FE simulations in their product development because the required software it is
too expensive and too complex to use.
Solution: A paradigm shift towards standardized, modular and cost-efficient FE
modeling: MESHPARTS is the first-to-market company to offer component-oriented
FE modeling for machine tools. It is based on a customizable FE Components Library
containing validated FE models and Software for easy parameterization, assembling
and re-usability of FE models.
Advantages and benefits: We enable your company to achieve highly accurate
FE simulation results while considerably cutting down on the average time spent on
modeling. By reusing validated FE simulation knowledge you can replace expensive
measurements by finite element simulations. Our software requires no finite element
knowledge for generating finite element assemblies, because their components
are already available in our library.
Unique selling point: 1. First and only provider of FE model libraries. 2. First and
only provider of FE modelling software, which helps you to create, change and reuse
finite element assemblies.
Competitors: None at the moment althogh FE software leaders could aquire our
idea and develop similar methods.
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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Evercam
www.meshparts.de
More information
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? In an ever more automated
world, sometimes a human eye is still necessary. However, despite great progress
in integration of Machine to Machine data, it is still difficult to quickly and reliably
access visual information - from cameras. This is due to fragmented camera
standards, the different nature of video/image data versus other sensor data and
the difficulty in general of developing for local devices.
Solution: Evercam is a device agnostic developer platform that will work with ANY IP
Camera making it much easier for developers to access, archive and share
imagery from cameras. By using our tools, software developers do not have to deal
with hardware and networking issues that often plague camera related development
projects.
Advantages and benefits: Evercam removes much of the risk and cost associated
with developing custom applications for cameras and integrating camera footage
into 3rd party applications.
Unique selling point: The alternatives are manufacturer specific SDKs or incomplete
standards such as ONVIF & PSIA , neither of which offer the range of functionality
provided by Evercam.
Competitors: There are several video management software solutions such
as Milestone and Mirasys that are designed for enterprise level solutions and are
typically installed on the local network (not hosted).
Whenever one might ask oneself - I’d like to see what‘s happening/what happened
there. Whereever a product is being moved, assembled, shipped or packed.
Typical examples include shipping of items for ecommerce or traceability in food
production.
System Integrators, Business Process Software Houses (e.g. ERP, Supply Chain,
Manufacturing, Logistics), IoT Platform companies, IoT device Manufacturers
www.evercam.io
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Advanced Stage II
Advanced Stage II
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Smoope
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MeltMe
Eleftherios Hatziioannou, Halil Mandal
Smoope GmbH
Karlstr.2, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen,
Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
[email protected]
Eva Rennen, Leonie Smelt
MELT icepops
Kraaipanstraat 56, 1091 PM Amsterdam,
Netherlands
E-Mail [email protected]
[email protected]
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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What is the problem?/Who has this problem? At MELT we believe that food
should be fun and innovative. Traditional mass-produced icepops are always the same,
and have no creative value.
Solution: MELT icepops balances between food, technology, art and design. We can
design and make any shape of icepop.
Advantages and benefits: An extremely flexible and creative food company, that can
affordably produce small and big batches of unique designs.
Unique selling point: We can design and make any shape of icepop. We combine 3D
technology and design in food. By continuously exploiting our creativity we keep
reinventing the icepop.
Competitors: Established icepop brands, (food) customization products
Brand activations, entertainment industry, design shops, weddings
Target markets are places people go to to have a good time. Zoo’s, festivals,
(amusement) parks. Buyers are direct consumers, brands and event organisers. Our
goal is to offer unique icepops all over the world with a franchise concept.
www.facebook.com/melticepops, www.melticepops.com
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
What is the problem?/Who has this problem? The fast paced global economy
requires more effective communication. Calling and sending e-mails do not
reflect this new reality. The smartphone has become an integral part of our lives and
businesses and should be used to improve communication/collaboration.
Solution: smoope is an Instant Messenger (like e.g. Whatsapp) which was specifically
created for the business use.
Advantages and benefits: Instant messaging has become the new email. People
“text” via popular services like Whatsapp. smoope brings this kind of communication
to the business world, too. Assynchronous communication via smoope can happen
anywhere and anytime. It saves time by reducing complexity (filesharing) and with
its more transactional style (question-answer vs. small talk).
Unique selling point: THE Instant Messenger for Business which works from web to
mobile and vice versa.
Competitors: Whatsapp, Line, Telegram, Viber, etc. are all Instant Messengers for
private use only, therefore they are no real competitors.
Our solution can be applied to various business cases, e.g. customer service/
technical support, supply chain/fleet management, team communication/
collaboration.
Manufacturers: customer service/technical support channel
Logistics: supply chain/fleet management
Sales: easier communication with salesforce in the field
www.smoope.com
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17:15 h
Advanced Stage II
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RapidVacMold – (R)evolutionary Mold
Making within Seconds
Frederic Dietze
WeightWorks Engineering
Kaltbrunnerstr. 24, 78476 Allensbach, Germany
E-Mail [email protected]
Description of the innovation
Potential applications
in industry
(market niches, increased
productivity)
Potential buyers/licensees/
investors (industries,
companies)
More information
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What is the problem?/Who has this problem? Rapid tooling/mold making is
relatively expensive when it comes to smallest series prototypes. With RapidVacMold
we offer a technology to create primary molds within seconds which can be
used either to simple “copy” parts in a different, better material or as a full approach
in comprehensive engineering: CAD ➔ CAM (inexpensive Foam, negative Form)
➔ RapidVacMold ➔ manufacturing
Solution: Reusable mold making only by physics: Imagine a pack of coffee which is
stiff (vacuum packed) when buying it – when opening up, it becomes loose again due
to pressure compensation. We invented a machine using this case for quick, reusable
mold making which is patented and ready for market.
Advantages and benefits: Manufacturing of prototypes and small(est) series much
more efficient, because you don’t need additional material & time for the mold
making process any more.
Unique selling point: Our technique is way more efficient than all conventional
rapid tooling processes which need time, additional material and produce waste
after all.
Competitors: For the way we use it right now hardly any; nearest competition would
be: rapid prototyping (3D-printing/SLS, SLM, SLA prototyping …), rapid tooling
(CNC milling/3D-printing …)
Rapid tooling/mold making for prototypes and small(est) series, without using any
additional material and within shortest time
Medium sized companies manufacturing prototypes/small(est) series in fibre
composite-, casting-, injection-, reforming-, primary forming processes
Fail Workshop
In the course of the workshop three founders will talk about how they failed with a
business idea and share their experiences in an interactive session with the audience,
thus departing from the usual best practice lectures. Join us at the Fail Workshop to
find similarities in the histories of failed businesses and to talk about lessons learnt with
the other participants. Discover the positive side of your own and others’ mistakes
and prepare for a fresh start!
Inge Geerdens – Founder and CEO of CVWarehouse
Inge Geerdens has entrepreneurship in her DNA. She started her first company in 2003: Executive Research.
It is a headhunting or recruitment agency with a twist. Unlike its competitors, its business model is not based on
a percentage of the candidate’s salary. Services are paid per day. Executive Research was acquired by Acerta
in 2008. Two years earlier, Inge Geerdens founded a second company: CVWarehouse. In a way a spin-off of
Executive Research. CVWarehouse is an e-recruitment solution that combines a jobsite, CV database and
an Applicant Tracking System in a single webbased solution, introducing the SAAS model to HR professionals
worldwide. Companies like McDonalds, Nespresso, Brussels Airlines, Capgemini, and many others use
CVWarehouse to handle the recruitment process efficiently and with respect for all involved. CVWarehouse
currently employs 15 people. The company has over 200 customers and has offices in Antwerp (Belgium),
San Francisco (USA) and Lisbon (Portugal). The tool is used in over 20 countries worldwide and is available
in 10 languages.
Frank Karlitschek, CTO, Community Leader and Co-founder of ownCloud
Frank Karlitschek is a long time open source contributor and former board member of the KDE e.V. He managed
engineering teams for over 10 years and worked as head of unit and managing director at different internet
companies. Since 2007 he is heading a startup which develops social networking and e-commerce products for
several fortune 500 companies. In 2010 he started the ownCloud project and is leading the community project
since then. In 2011 he co-founded ownCloud Inc. to offer commercial services around ownCloud. ownCloud Inc.
has collected over $10M in funding so far and has grown to over 50 employees.
Mark Turrell, Founder and CEO of Orcasci
Mark Turrell is the founder and CEO of Orcasci, a strategy and marketing agency specializing in designing
programs that ‘spread’ products, services, ideas and behaviors. Orcasci’s toolset for the Science of SpreadTM
leverages scientific concepts and social networking technology to help you get people engaged and deliver
change. Its unique approach rapidly achieves impressive results, drawing on insights from neuroscience,
behavioral science, network science, collective intelligence and innovation. Mark is passionate about helping
people change the world for better and is keen on finding ways to spread and scale good things faster. With
Orcasci he has worked on projects as diverse as elections, smoking cessation, and motion picture marketing.
Mark is the co-founder of Imaginatik, a firm that pioneered the use of collective intelligence and crowdsourcing techniques for corporations, with a special focus on innovation. During his sixteen years at Imaginatik,
Mark worked with hundreds of companies around the world. His clients included Merck, Pfizer, Chevron, Dow
Chemical, Nokia, IBM, Whirlpool, Weyerhaeuser and Xerox. As well as consulting with clients – and managing
the business – he lead the firm’s research activities, publishing many research reports, articles and speaking
at conferences around the world. Mark was nominated as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum
in 2008, and a Young Global Leader in 2010. He has been a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, through
his work at Imaginatik.
www.weightworks.de
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European Partner Projects:
Take the opportunity to meet international experts from five European projects
contributing to the Heidelberg Innovation Forum.
European Investor Gate (EIG) is an EU funded project which bridges the gap
between public research funding and private investment. Many potentially exciting
and useful new IT-technologies still do not enter into the European market as new
products or services and investors miss the opportunity to foresee the tangible
productivity of innovation. The central goal of the European Investor Gate project is
therefore to bring results of European research projects to the market and to make
ICT researchers, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or first-time entrepreneurs investor ready through coaching and training. At the same time, EIG will
raise awareness among investors for innovative early stage research projects
and their economic potential.
The Fame Financing Network is a cross-border European partnership bringing
together four partners with extensive expertise and experience in financing highgrowth companies in the Creative Industries (CI). The main objective of FAME is
to mobilize new financing sources, create a dedicated multi-regional hub, facilitate
cooperation and competence building for companies in creative sectors and
connecting them to public and private finance. FAME has organized the FAME
Investor Workshop of this year’s Heidelberg Innovation Forum.
Considering the high eco innovation potential of the Alpine Space, the FIDIAS
project aims at providing local authorities, green tech small and medium-sized
businesses and financial operators of the alpine regions with sufficient know-how to
exploit the opportunities coming from EU financial instruments and support services.
Through better access to finance, FIDIAS reinforces sustainable local development.
By considering the encouragement coming from the European Commission regarding
the use of financial instruments as a leverage of public funding, the project intends
to promote innovative mechanisms, financial instruments and services able to attract
public and private capital. In addition, FIDIAS supports job creation, sustainable
development as well as competitiveness in alpine territories. Collectively, the ten
project partners from Austria, Slovenia, Italy, France and Germany will work on
these sustainability goals in the course of the project.
Visit us at the 14th
KARIM stands for Knowledge Acceleration and Responsible Innovation MetaNetwork. It is an exciting new initiative set up to facilitate knowledge transfer across
North West Europe (NWE) and to help improve small and medium sized enterprises
access to high value innovation support and technology and so make NWE more
competitive. By 2014 the project has created a strategic network of more than
500 innovation actors and will provide a range of innovative yet practical offerings
for all who share the vision of a creating a more competitive Europe.
in 2015
The event is organised by MFG Innovation Agency for ICT and Media
in collaboration with European Media Laboratory GmbH.
The ONE project aims at improving regional capacity for planning investments
in ICT through sharing best practices for work of regional “observatories”. Partner
regions seek to enhance the conditions within their innovation frameworks by
documenting ICT penetration processes, making data available to relevant public
and private stake-holders, and helping with evaluation of ICT initiatives. ONE takes
action to enable decision-makers to make informed choices about ICT investments
based on ex-ante and ex-post analyses of their territories.
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MFG Innovation Agency for ICT and Media
Breitscheidstraße 4, 70174 Stuttgart
Phone +49 (0)711/90 715-325, Fax +49 (0)711/90 715-350
E-Mail: [email protected]
Project Manager Heidelberg Innovation Forum: Corinna Voß
Project Manager bwcon/FAME: Bianca Kolb
Head of Project Team: Alexandra Rudl
Leadership: Dr. Jürgen Jähnert
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