Tag: innovation
World Fund wants to put 350 million euros into sustainable companies
Dusseldorf Most funds look to their investments for the chance of high returns. In the emerging market for air conditioning technologies, however, many are pursuing a completely different strategy. Like…
Start-ups in Germany: Funding could unleash entrepreneurial spirit
How does Germany become a start-up country? The McKinsey experts call for better use of the potential of start-ups. Her thesis: If things continue as before, only around 2,900 start-ups…
How the start-up wants to make clothes better
Textile with GRDXKN print The printed properties reduce abrasion and improve ventilation, among other things. (Photo: GRDXKN) Munich When Bastian Müller saw the many mass falls at the Tour de…
G20 leaders are powerless to look at a stateless tech world
When the political leaders of the 20 most important industrialized and emerging countries (G20) meet in Rome next weekend, they will be surrounded by the aura of world government. The…
To sleep or not to sleep? That is the question
The author Tillmann Prüfer is a member of the editor-in-chief of “Zeit-Magazin”. In the past, managers always liked to talk about how little sleep they needed, in fact that they…
Innovation that will allow you to share a joint post from Instagram!
InstagramEvery day, it introduces a new feature to its users. The company is constantly innovating to make the app more functional. This time, the platform comes up with a feature…
The technologies of the future lack capital
Berlin CO2 storage, synthetic kerosene, chargers for e-cars – many political hopes rest on the technologies of the future. Fighting climate change describes the exploratory paper by the Greens, FDP…
Start-up-Award: University Challenge 2021: Das sind die Finalisten
Die Jury hat die zwölf Finalisten nach den Kriterien Gründungsteam, Beschreibung der Innovation und Produkt und Marktchancen ausgewählt. Dabei wurden Fragen gestellt wie: Wie strukturiert und einzigartig ist das Geschäftsmodell?…
Ten ways to innovation Germany
Germany’s innovation policy is eroding. Not because the state is pumping too little money into the system. Rather, there is a problem with bureaucracy, mental silos, misguided incentives, large egos…
Frank Herzog: Venture capital fund for the 3D printing industry
Munich The corona pandemic highlighted the possibilities of 3D printing in two ways: At the beginning of the crisis, ventilators and face shields were manufactured using the technology. When the…
These books show how Germany is becoming more innovative
Dusseldorf And suddenly virtual meetings are completely normal. Everything had to happen very quickly in spring 2020. Face-to-face conferences were canceled and replaced by video meetings. Employees frantically carried monitors…
How good is Tesla’s new super battery?
Struggle for better batteries So far, LFP batteries have mainly been used in the low-price segment by Chinese manufacturers such as BYD or CATL, but now Tesla is also increasingly…
Energy storage start-up Stabl Energy gets fresh money
The founding team The founders of Stabl Energy from left to right: Martin Sprehe, Arthur Singer, Christoph Dietrich and Nam Truong. (Photo: STABL Energy GmbH) Hamburg A winner of the…
Earlybird wants to find the best university spin-offs
Dusseldorf It could be the beginning of a great success story: As students in Potsdam, Jerome Lange, Marco Trippler and Lasse Steffen have jointly developed software for large construction sites…
German solar innovation inspires Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani By 2030, the entrepreneur wants to single-handedly increase India’s solar capacity by 100 gigawatts. (Photo: imago / Hindustan Times) Bangkok Asia’s richest man wants to drive the energy…
ITS Mobility Congress in Hamburg: What makes trucks superfluous?
Hamburg The large project of the Hamburg port operator HHLA has shrunk to the size of a model railway: the container station for the Hyperloop tube railway only exists as…
“In Brandenburg the auto industry is being reinvented”
Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide The first vehicles should roll off the assembly line here from the end of 2021. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Brandenburg is becoming the new location for popular…
Ranking: Germany’s 100 fastest growing medium-sized companies
Production at Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau The Offenburg company was in first place in the “Top 100” ranking this year. (Photo: Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau) Cologne Carbon concrete, a mixture of wood…
These are Germany’s 100 fastest growing medium-sized companies
Production at Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau The Offenburg company was in first place in the “Top 100” ranking this year. (Photo: Peter Huber Kältemaschinenbau) Cologne Carbon concrete, a mixture of wood…
Quantum boss Florian Neukart is moving to the start-up Terra Quantum
Dusseldorf From a large corporation to a start-up: Florian Neukart, head of Volkswagen’s quantum computer department, switches to Terra Quantum from Markus Pflitsch. Neukart becomes product manager at the young…