Partners
Get to know our offer
For companies, NGOs and civil society we offer a low risk opportunity to get introduced to an innovation approach in their business context, to identify new business opportunities and to get introduced to a systematic way to bring the innovation mindset into their setting.
As a corporate sponsor
Our offer is a human-centric innovation program to develop new products and services. The projects' problems can come from medium-sized and large companies and from a wide range of sectors (healthcare, telecommunications, software, transport, public institutions, etc.). At the beginning of the project, as a customer you will formulate the problem in the form of a "design brief", which we are happy to help constructing. The question presented in this briefing is so open and broad that the students will not develop only one solution, they will make multiple iterations and develop various concepts and prototypes througout the project, changing and deepening their understanding of the problem. The teams are made up of students from different faculties and we try to form them according to the technical requirements of the challenge. At the end they present an executable demonstrator whose quality has been tested with regard to technological feasibility, user satisfaction and economic viability.
As a company you will get a functional prototype of an innovative product or service, comprehensive documentation of the complete journey, protoypes and findings, identification of business opportunities, insights into a systematic path to innovation (methods, culture, mindset) through observation of the student team, a combination of German engineering culture with the spirit of the Silicon Valley and being integrated into a global innovation network.
As a company interested in Design Thinking
Besides our long term projects, we also provide short and fast paced workshops to make sure your company gets in the right mindset and gets the feeling of what design thinking can be.
These workshops are adjusted to your company availability and tailored to the companys needs and wishes. They can take form as a 1 or 2 day bootcamp where together we go though one cycle of the Design Thinking Process.
It is the perfect way of realizing how beneficial this mindset can be when driving innovation and how to implement this mindset within your organization.
What our partners say
"Die Zusammenarbeit mit den engagierten Studierenden und der Austausch mit den erfahrenen Betreuenden hat all unsere Erwartungen übertroffen, denn mit nur wenig Vorlauf beschäftigten sich die Studierenden so kreativ und mit vollem Einsatz mit unserer Problemstellung, dass wir das Projekt nun aus der Prototypenphase in die Marktreife überführen können und werden."
"Die interdisziplinäre Ausrichtung im Projekt war sehr gewinnbringend im Hinblick auf unsere Forschungs- und Entwicklungsarbeit. Das Konzept des Coffee Atlas leistet einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Weiterentwicklung der Kaffeeindustrie, indem sie den Erhalt der Biodiversität fördert und die globalen Herausforderungen des Klimawandels adressiert."
"A great opportunity to work with young, creative minds and come into contact with new and perhaps unusual ideas"
"The InnoTEAm has uncovered exciting new insights into possible uses for FRENVI. In the end, it didn't really become a new product, but the idea of pluggable furniture shed a whole new light on the panel, the light of a creative designer. The combination with recycled and fiber-enriched plastic connectors, which we are also looking at for our further portfolio, is also exciting. I can well imagine that we will be able to use one or two pieces of furniture for our trade fair stand. Many thanks to everyone! Even though the group worked independently, we as sponsors also felt well supported and looked after."
