Tag: Fraunhofer Society
US military relies on transmission technology from a German professor
Harald Haas in the laboratory The European Patent Office has nominated the scientist for the “Inventor of the Year” award. (Photo: EPO) Munich A hundred times faster than WLAN and…
Fraunhofer President stops after allegations of expenses
Reimund Neugebauer The Fraunhofer statement said that Neugebauer was “mutually” resigning his business. (Photo: IMAGO/Political Moments) Munich After eleven years, the criticized President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is resigning from his…
Fraunhofer researchers cooperate with Huawei – traffic light politicians fear espionage
Headquarters of the Fraunhofer Society in Munich In some areas, the researchers are collaborating with Huawei. German politicians see this as a risk. (Photo: imago/Ralph Peters) Berlin Europe’s leading organization…
Why IT projects in companies fail
woman in the rain Many companies experience the same thing as this woman during the IT changeover: everything goes wrong. (Photo: DigitalVision/Getty Images) Dusseldorf The software that companies use to…
Healing cancer with immune cells – the miracle therapy becomes possible for everyone
Frankfurt Emily Whitehead has celebrated her birthday twice a year for the past ten years. Once for the anniversary of her birth and once because she is another year cancer…
High-Tech Gründerfonds can invest even more in the future
HTGF Managing Director Guido Schlitzer (left) and Alex von Frankenberg Despite the restrained mood on the market, the investor has already co-financed the first start-ups with his new fund. Berlin…
More than 100,000 jobs will be lost in the automotive trade
Working in the auto repair shop The requirements are increasingly moving in the direction of digitalization. (Photo: imago images/Westend61) Dusseldorf Electromobility and digitization will ensure that more than 100,000 jobs…
Cloud platform for the automotive industry: Catena-X is taking shape
BMW plant in Dingolfing The automotive industry wants to network more closely digitally – also for reasons of sustainability. (Photo: BMW) Munich The German automotive industry wants to network more…
How Europe’s unknown tech company Imec is shaping our future
Imec The research institute in Belgium is well-known among semiconductor experts for its know-how – which has an annual turnover of 800 million euros. (Photo: Imec [M]) lions “Europe has…
More and more inventions by migrants
Software company SAP According to the IW study, SAP would lose more than half of its patent output without its inventors with foreign roots. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Inventors with foreign…
Fight the “chance profits” of the energy companies
Good morning, dear readers, among the intricacies of current policy is the difference between “over wins” and “accidental wins.” Both are expressions of non-competitive oligopolies that have become the norm…
Why Elon Musk doesn’t build battery cells in Grünheide
Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin For the time being, the US group is not building any battery cells at its German site. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The fact that Tesla is not…
Why Elon Musk doesn’t build battery cells in Grünheide
Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin For the time being, the US group is not building any battery cells at its German site. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The fact that Tesla is not…
Red card from the UN against Russia
there are two worlds when it comes to Ukraine and Vladimir Putin. One consists of appeals for appeasement and hope for the old energy world, the other of the struggle…
Energy storage start-up relies on flexible heat for industry
Dusseldorf Factory towers and ventilation gates throw large amounts of thermal energy into the environment – at the same time, on some good days, solar and wind parks produce excess…
Investors: Successful founders form a venture capital alliance
Munich More and more founders are investing the proceeds from the successful sale of their companies back into the venture capital scene. The most recent example are the founders of…
How geothermal energy could supply Germany with heat
Dusseldorf In the vocabulary of most politicians, the term “eco-heat” has not yet been anchored, criticizes Inga Moeck, Head of the Department of Geothermics and Information Systems at the Leibniz…
German industry gets help from the Emirates
Abu Dhabi The conversion to hydrogen-based production processes is taking concrete shape in Germany. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) are playing a pioneering role as hydrogen suppliers. Several German companies…
Christin Eisenschmidt
As painfully as the Covid-19 pandemic made us aware of the fragility of global supply chains – the fact that just under ten percent of the chips produced worldwide currently…
Decarbonization through red hydrogen?
Reimund Neugebauer, President of the Fraunhofer Society “As a bridging technology, we need turquoise hydrogen from gas and, in the longer term, also red hydrogen from nuclear fusion.” (Photo: Fraunhofer)…