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Tübingen Industry on Campus Professorships

University of Tübingen, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074 Tübingen Germany

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Tübingen Industry on Campus Professorships

University or Research Institution University of Tübingen
Info Initiation:
In 2012, the University of Tübingen began the integration of Industry on Campus professorships into existing university structures as part of their Excellence initiative. The university currently host four professorships: Zeiss vision lab focusing on the fundamental processes involved in vision, SCHUFA working in the field of artificial intelligence, BOSCH on image processing, genetics and artificial intelligence, & FESTO, since july 2021, is researching Deep Reinforcement Learning for robotics. The professorships differ from the traditional Industry on Campus partnerships as the company does not have to establish an entire research institution at the university.

Type of Collaboration:
1:1 partnerships

Governance:
In most cases, the appointed scientist from industry has established a research group and is working side by side with the university.

Business model & financing:
The professorships are supported by the the German Federal Government as part of the Excellence initiative. Furthermore, the industry partner often invests in the collaboration. SCHUFA is investing 1.25 million euros in the collaboration in the first five years and BOSCH is supporting the professorship with 5.5 million euros over ten years as part of Cyber Valley.

Impact:
The industry partners are benefitting from the research at the university, eg. has the research helped ZEISS correct numerous visual defects with eyeglass lenses.

Weighting of research:
Applied research
Companies

ZEISS, SCHUFA, Bosch, FESTO

Address

University of Tübingen, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074 Tübingen Germany

Innovationscampus Health & Life Science Alliance

Biotechnology Life Science and Welfare Tech Medical Technology

Heidelberg Mannheim Health & Life Science Alliance, Marsilius-Kolleg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 130.1, 69120 Heidelberg

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Innovationscampus Health & Life Science Alliance

Biotechnology Life Science and Welfare Tech Medical Technology
University or Research Institution Heidelberg University, German Cancer Research Center, University Clinic Heidelberg and Mannheim, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research & Central Institute of Mental Health
Info Initiation:
The center is an Innovation Campus from the state of Baden-Würrtemberg. The center will focus on medical technology and biotechnology, which already exists in the Rhine-Neckar region. The region is considered one of the European hotspots for this field, and the center has potential to make Baden-Würrtemberg the healthcare location of the future.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
The founding members will establish an office at the University of Heidelberg, which all members have to support in terms of personnel

Business model &financing:
The state of Baden-Württemberg supports the center with €40 million. Beside this support, the center will be funded by industrial funds and private capital.

Impact:
The aim is to create an international cluster for health and life science with an cross-institutional research approach.
It should attract top talent, create research and industry collaborations and create spin-offs, start-ups and partnerships.

Weighting of research:
Basic research & clinical research
Companies

TBA

Address

Heidelberg Mannheim Health & Life Science Alliance, Marsilius-Kolleg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 130.1, 69120 Heidelberg

Sheet Metal Processing Lab

Industry 4.0 Sheet metal processing

Nobelstr. 12 70569 Stuttgart

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Sheet Metal Processing Lab

Industry 4.0 Sheet metal processing
University or Research Institution Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation
Info Initiation:
At the Sheet Metal Processing Lab TRUMPF and Fraunhofer IPA employees are working together to develop innovative solutions for tomorrow's manufacturing within sheet metal. The lab was initiated because TRUMPF were interested in showcasing autonomous production and human-centered devices in production. The lab was established in 2015 as a five-year strategic cooperation, but due to its succes, it has been prolonged till 2025. It is part of the Industry 4.0 Application Center, thus, it is now part of the S-TEC (more information: Industry 4.0 Application Center).

Type of collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Business model & financing:
The lab was initially supported by TRUMPF with €5 million, which extended with €2 million

Impact:
With the lab the center can showcase the advantages of implementing Industry 4.0 in sheet metal processing. An example is show their sorting table for a laser processing machine, where they can test how long it takes a worker to sort the metal sheets. Not only TRUMPF but also other companies can learn from the demonstrations.

Weighting of research:
Applied research and implementation.
Companies

TRUMPF

Address

Nobelstr. 12 70569 Stuttgart

Innovation Center for Laboratory Automation Stuttgart (nICLAS)

Laboratory automation

Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart

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Innovation Center for Laboratory Automation Stuttgart (nICLAS)

Laboratory automation
University or Research Institution Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation
Info Initiation:
At the nICLAS center, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing and Engineering brings together manufacturers, users and researchers for an interdisciplinary exchange. Together, new technologies are being developed for a smart laboratory and the bioproduction of the future.

Type of collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
In charge of the center is Dipl. Ing. Andreas Traube as the head of the department

Business model & financing:
Fraunhofer provides the settings for the collaboration lab, while their strong company partners provide them with the latest equipment and innovative technologies for collaborative developments.

Impact:
The lab focuses on three different areas
1. Academy
The focus of the academy is to foster joint collaboration in the laboratory by providing training and education. What is learned is applied in practice at the nICLAS Academy.

2. Reference lab
In the lab it is possible to validate processes, test equipment and create standards for tested technologies.

3. Future lab
From the future lab biogames are bringing together companies from life science and the gaming industry to create joint solutions.


Weighting of research:
Applied research
Companies

Precise Automation, TECAN, Liconic, Thermo Fisher Scientifc, Promega, Festo, Analytic Jena and SPT Labtech

Address

Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart

Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Center (FiZ)

Entrepreneurship Life Science and Welfare Tech

Frankfurter Innovationszentrum Biotechnologie GmbH, Altenhöferallee 3, 60438 Frankfurt am Main

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Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Center (FiZ)

Entrepreneurship Life Science and Welfare Tech
University or Research Institution FiZ Frankfurter Innovationszentrum Biotechnologie GmbH
Info Initiation:
In order to strengthen biotechnology and genetic engineering, the State of Hesse, the City of Frankfurt and the Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Industry and Commerce founded the operating company FIZ Frankfurter Innovationszentrum Biotechnologie GmbH in June 2002.
The center is located in Frankfurt-Riedberg in close proximity to Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and the Max Planck Institutes.

Types of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
The FiZ is managed by its director, with support from the director of finance and operations.
The shareholders of FiZ GmbH form a supervisory board to make sure the center is held to its agreement.
Additionally, the FiZ is controlled by 5 “heads” with each an area of expertise.

Business model & financing:
The state holds 40 percent of the shares in FIZ, the city 40 percent and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce 20 percent.

Impact:
The FiZ has 25.000 m² of laboratory and office space, which hosts several companies.
The infrastructure of the campus with its shared services allows for flexible work, customized to the companies' individual needs. In addition, tenants also benefit from the collaboration, the interdisciplinary networks, and the access to new markets that FIZ provides.

Weighting of research:
Entrepreneurship/incubation, network
Companies

Several small companies

Address

Frankfurter Innovationszentrum Biotechnologie GmbH, Altenhöferallee 3, 60438 Frankfurt am Main

ZEISS Innovation Hub

Digitization

ZEISS Innovation Hub, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 6, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Tyskland

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ZEISS Innovation Hub

Digitization
University or Research Institution Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Info Initiation:
KIT and Zeiss had for several years been collaborating on projects e.g. ZEISS Makerspace @ KIT. As part of Zeiss’s innovation strategy, they decided to intensify this relationship in 2017 by establishing ZEISS innovation hub at KIT. ZEISS invested approximately €30 million in the construction, and the hub was ready in 2020. The Innovation Hub @ KIT explores new technology and application fields in an open-innovation culture, which enables transformation of ideas into innovations. It is a co-location of academia, start-up and industry, collaboration on an open platform.

Type of Collaboration:
1:1 partnerships

Governance:
The hub has a management team consisting of researchers and innovation managers from ZEISS and KIT.

Business model & financing:
The hub houses the KIT high-tech incubator, numerous start-ups and spin-offs from the KIT, and lastly the ZEISS innovation team.

Impact:
The innovation hub is housing and developing the carve-out projects of KIT and ZEISS. The start-up companies move into the hub and are able to develop their business. Students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and ZEISS employees meet are able to practice an open-innovation culture.

Weighting of research:
Entrepreneurship/incubation, applied research, development
Companies

ZEISS

Address

ZEISS Innovation Hub, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 6, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Tyskland

Catalysis Research Laboratory (CaRLa)

Catalyst Energy

CarLa, Im Neuenheimer Feld 584, 69120 Heidelberg

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Catalysis Research Laboratory (CaRLa)

Catalyst Energy
University or Research Institution University of Heidelberg
Info Initiation:
BASF and the University of Heidelberg founded the CaRLa laboratory in 2006. The laboratory is part of the industry on campus by the University of Heidelberg and focuses on homogeneous catalysis.

Type of Collaboration:
1:1 partnership

Governance:
The laboratory is overseen by a steering committee consisting of 50 % BASF and 50 % university members, and a head of the laboratory.
To control project management, a professor from respectively BASF and the University of Heidelberg has been appointed.

Business model & financing:
CaRLa is financed as part of a Private Public Partnership between BASF and the University of Heidelberg. It is being finansed in two halves; one by BASF, and the other by the Federal Government of Baden-Württemberg and the University.

Impact:
CaRLa hosts researchers from several different countries, publish several papers in renowned journals and frequently submit patent applications.

Weighting of research:
Applied research, implementation
Companies

BASF

Address

CarLa, Im Neuenheimer Feld 584, 69120 Heidelberg

The Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI)

Image processing Visual learning

Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing, Universität Heidelberg Berliner Str. 43, D-69120 Heidelberg

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The Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI)

Image processing Visual learning
University or Research Institution Heidelberg University
Info Initiation:
The HCI is part of the institutional strategy of the Heidelberg University within the German Universities Excellence Strategy, and also part of the excellence cluster “Structures”. It was established in 2007 and is an “industry on campus” project. The collaboratory conducts basic research into image processing with the aim of providing solutions to image analysis and machine learning problems for applications in industry.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
HCI has a head of each of their four labs, with a coordinating director.

Business model & financing:
The HCI is financed with the help of the Excellence Initiative and the industrial partners.
Some of the lab members are funded directly by HCI Cooperation Agreements, as they work on topics that are defined in mutual agreement with the industrial partners and the HCI directors.

Impact:
The scientists work on conducting basic research with the aim of providing cutting-edge solutions to image analysis and machine learning problems for application in industry

Weighting of research:
Basic research
Companies

Bosch, Heidelberg Engineering, Volume Graphics, Bayer

Address

Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing, Universität Heidelberg Berliner Str. 43, D-69120 Heidelberg

Nikon Imaging Center

Light microscopy

Nikon Imaging Center Bioquant BQ04 Im Neuenheimer Feld 267 D-69120 Heidelberg

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Nikon Imaging Center

Light microscopy
University or Research Institution Heidelberg University
Info Initiation:
The center was founded in 2012 and is part of the Excellence Initiative of Heidelberg University. It provides instruments for advanced light microscopic imaging to researchers on campus.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple Stakeholders

Governance:
Nikon Imaging Center is managed by a director and a post-doctoral staff, which support researchers in their experiments. It is part of two collaborative research centers and is embedded in the Excellence Initiative of Heidelberg University.

Business model & financing:
The two collaborative research centers SFB 873 and SFB1324, which Nikon Imaging center i part of, is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Impact:
The Nikon Imaging Center provides all researchers of Bio Sciences at the University with access and training to state-of-the-art light microscopy.

Weighting of research:
Applied research, education of researchers
Companies

Nikon GmbH, Nikon Instruments Europe B.V., Andor, PerkinElmer LAS, Laboratory Imaging (LIM), AHF Analysentechnik & Scientific Volume Imaging and Prior Scientific.

Address

Nikon Imaging Center Bioquant BQ04 Im Neuenheimer Feld 267 D-69120 Heidelberg

Schaeffler Hub for Advanced Research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (SHARE at KIT)

Solutions to future mobility

Rintheimer Querallee 2, 76131 Karlsruhe

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Schaeffler Hub for Advanced Research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (SHARE at KIT)

Solutions to future mobility
University or Research Institution Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Info Initiation:
At the end of 2012, Schaeffler established a long-term cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) based on the "Company on Campus" model. The collaboration started as Schaeffler wanted to include more application-oriented research and innovation within leading research in electric mobility.

Type of Collaboration:
1:1 partnership

Governance:
SHARE at KIT has appointed a head of the department. In addition, there is a working group leader for each of the three main topics (automated mobility, electric drives & energy storage).
Decisions about projects are taken by a board with an equal number of representatives from SCHAEFFLER Group and KIT to ensure balance in interests.

Business model & financing:
Schaeffler funds its own researchers on campus and research projects at various institutes at KIT. Schaeffler also contributes with full funding of PhD students, which often makes the projects attractive for researchers at KIT to participate in.
Some projects are publicly funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research such as e2-link and omnisteer.

IPR management:
Schaeffler AG and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has signed a "Memorandum of Understanding" to guide the cooperation.

Impact:
The collaboration has led to improved navigation in driverless cars, by using data about the car, the driver and the surrounding environment, as well as better fuel cells so that the cars can drive longer on a single charge.

Weighting of research:
Applied research, development and implementation.
Companies

Schaeffler

Address

Rintheimer Querallee 2, 76131 Karlsruhe

Center for Particle Technology

Advanced Production

Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart

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Center for Particle Technology

Advanced Production
University or Research Institution Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation
Info Initiation:
Fraunhofer IPA has decades of experience in the field of surface technology, which is used to perform application-oriented consulting, process comparisons and fundamental research projects at the center. Manufacturers, users, and Fraunhofer IPA researchers meet up in the application center to discuss issues on an interdisciplinary basis.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
The center is controlled by Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation

Impact:
A powder coating technology based on the TransApp® process has been tested out in the center together with the Austrian partner company TransApp-GmbH, which have shown excellent coating results, and it does not require the use of a powder gun. Based on this, a method of applying the dry-blend functional material by electrostatic deposition to the current collector foil without the use of a gun was developed at IPA as part of the Elibama (European Li-Ion Battery Advanced Manufacturing) research project.

Weighting of research:
Applied Research
Companies

Among others TransApp-GmbH, partner institute CRM in Liège, Belgium

Address

Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart

Center for Data and Information Technology

IoT Machine learning Mobility Robotics

TUM Garching campus, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85748 Garching

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Center for Data and Information Technology

IoT Machine learning Mobility Robotics
University or Research Institution University of Stuttgart, Ulm University & Max Planck Institute
Info Initiation:
In December 2019, SAP SE and TUM decided to engage in a 50-year cooperation to advance new technologies of digitization. The work is going to take place on TUM’s campus in Garching, and SAP has invested €100 million in a new research building. The new research complex is scheduled to be ready for occupation by the end of 2022 and is said to be Germany’s most extensive cooperation between industry and university. Key topics for the center will include Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, big data, cloud computing and mobility.

Types of collaboration:
1:1 partnerships

Governance:
SAP and TUM employees will be conducting research at the center.

Business model & financing:
SAP has invested €100 million in the new research building and the German state is providing the land. It is part of the federal government’s and federal states’ Excellence Strategy.
Companies

SAP SE

Address

TUM Garching campus, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85748 Garching

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Application Center Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0

Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart

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Application Center Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0
University or Research Institution Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, University of Stuttgart
Info Initiation:
The Application Center was launched in 2015 as a 4-year project, with a mission to establish Industry 4.0 in companies and to transfer knowledge between business and science. Since then, the center has been developing innovations for digitally supported production. In 2018, near the end of the project, the center was transferred to Stuttgart Technology and Innovation Campus (S-TEC). They have continued the important work of the Industry 4.0 Application Center.

Type of collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
Due to the financed money from the ministry, the ministry is part of the decision process of which companies and centers are worth investing in. For this purpose a consortium has been formed.

Business model & financing:
S-TEC is funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing & the Ministry of Science, Research and Art. The public funding for S-TEC is €47,5 million.
The work of the S-TEC is build from the competences of the participating research institutions (Fraunhofer IPA, University of Stuttgart, DLR, Max Planck Institute, Cyber Valley).

Impact:
The center gives companies the possibility to see how they can systematically introduce Industry 4.0 into their production. The center is able to show how cyber-physical systems can be implemented in manufacturing, and demonstrate generative manufacturing technologies with real-time simulations.
The Fraunhofer IPA's Industry 4.0 received the award "100 Places for Industry 4.0 in Baden-Württemberg" in 2017.

Weighting of research:
Research, development and testing
Companies

SMEs

Address

Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart

Future Work Lab

Industry 4.0

Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart

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Future Work Lab

Industry 4.0
University or Research Institution Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation
Info Initiation:
The Future Work Lab focuses on making AI usable for the factory of tomorrow by allowing visitors experience the industrial work of the future. The lab was initiated in 2017 as a pilot measure for the BMBF program "Innovations for the production, service and work of tomorrow". The lab is housed in the ARENA2036 buildings.

Type of collaboration:
Multiple Stakeholders

Business model & financing:
The center is supervised by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA). The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) fund the lab through the program "Innovations for the production, service and work of tomorrow".

Impact:
The center is divided into three laboratory areas, which are available for companies to utilize.
1. A demonstration world
The demonstration facilities combine existing technologies and solutions with new applications to test out areas of use and gain insight into the industrial work of the future.

2. A learning world
Employees and interest parties can in the learning world seek competence development and consulting. Companies are able to inform themselves, qualify and jointly discuss possible developments of future working environments.

3. An idea world
It a a platform for exchanging ideas and developing new solutions for the production work of the future.


Weighting of research:
Applied research, development and implementation
Companies

The Future Work Lab is open to companies, employees, employee representatives, politicians, researchers and other interested parties

Address

Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart

Dispersing Technology Center

Advanced Production

Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart

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Dispersing Technology Center

Advanced Production
University or Research Institution Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA
Info Initiation:
The Dispersing Technology Center focuses on know-how of the entire process chain of dispersion technology, from the development of scientific fundamentals to the application in the industrial environment. The purpose is to meet industry's demand for a competent research institutions as a partner.

Type of collaboration:
Multiple partners

Governance:
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA is in charge of the center

Impact:
The center help companies with their research projects and solution development. They are able to advice them on the design of the overall process and also on the choice of the right materials. The center looks into issues such as degree of automation, energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Weighting of research:
Applied research
Companies

Industrial partners

Address

Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart

BOSCH AI Campus

Artificial Intelligence

Around: Max-Planck-Ring 4, 72076 Tübingen

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BOSCH AI Campus

Artificial Intelligence
University or Research Institution University of Tübingen
Info Initiation:
In 2019, Bosch decided to build a “Bosch AI campus” in Tübingen.
The investment in the AI campus is yet another step by the company to strengthen AI research in Cyber Valley. The new research complex is scheduled to be ready for occupation by the end of 2022.

Governance:
Around 700 experts are expected to work there on application-oriented AI in the future

Business models / financing:
Bosch plans to invest around 35 million euros in the construction of the "Bosch AI Campus".
Companies

Bosch

Address

Around: Max-Planck-Ring 4, 72076 Tübingen

Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitan Regions (M Cube)

Mobility improvement

Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 München

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Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitan Regions (M Cube)

Mobility improvement
University or Research Institution Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Info Initiation:
M Cube started as part of the competition Clusters4future held by the BMBF.” The cluster will be launched in October 2021 and will bring together an interdisciplinary team of researchers along with partners from the private sector and civil society to work on the major challenges in the mobility sector such as efficiency, impact of space and pollution. Their vision is to establish Munich as a pioneer for sustainable and transformative mobility innovations.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
The M Cube is organized into a strategy and concept team.


Business model & financing:
M Cube is supported by the BMBF through the “Clusters4future” with up to 45 million euros in funding over a nine-year period.

Impact:
M Cube uses the area as a "learning region" to develop scalable solutions with model character for metropolitan regions in Germany and worldwide over the next nine years. The area is optimal for development as it has a high concentration of innovation actors in the mobility sector.

Weighting of research:
Applied research, development and implementation
Companies

Among others: Autobahndirektion Südbayern, BMW, Green city, MAN, SIEMENS etc.

Address

Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 München

Mannheim Molecular Intervention Environment (M²OLIE)

Medical Technology

Forschungscampus M²OLIE, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167 Mannheim

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Mannheim Molecular Intervention Environment (M²OLIE)

Medical Technology
University or Research Institution Mannheim Medical Technology Cluster
Info Initiation:
The M²OLIE research campus was initiated as part of the “Research Campus - Public-private Partnerships for Innovation” competition held September 25, 2012. The competition was hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. After winning the competition, M2OLIE was founded in 2013.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
The governance structure of the campus is build up by 5 different units. A board, steering committee, scientific advisory board, project committee and project groups. They handle the profile, day-to-day business, strategies, projects and coordination.

Business model & financing:
It is financed by the German BMBF with 2 million per year until 2024, where they will get evaluated whether they can get another 5 years of funding.
Additionally, each partner invests 2 million per year, not necessarily monetary but can also be in expertise of people, material or machines.

Impact:
The campus have projects in three different areas:
- Imaging (M2IBID)
- Assistance for diagnosis (M2INT)
- Data acquisition, transfer and analysis (M2DATA)

By the end of the second funding period, they want to make a prospective study where they treat patients with Olegmetastases

Weighting of research:
Applied research, development and implementation.
Companies

26 equal partners, five academic and 21 industrial partners

Address

Forschungscampus M²OLIE, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167 Mannheim

PROXIDRUGS

Life Science and Welfare Tech Proximity based drugs

Goethe University

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PROXIDRUGS

Life Science and Welfare Tech Proximity based drugs
University or Research Institution Fraunhofer Institute IME, Technical University Darmstadt & Goethe University Frankfurt
Info Initiation:
The cluster PROXIDRUGS started as part of the competition Clusters4future held by the BMBF, and they were selected for funding in February 2021. At Goethe University, the Frankfurt Center for Innovation & Technologies will be established as academic innovation hub that provides the needed technologies to the consortium. The collaboration between all partners marks the start of a new era in drug development within the Rhine Main region.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Partners:
Other than the grant recipients, several other institutions are partners of the cluster. Among them are TU Darmstadt, University of Heidelberg and Max Planck Institute for Biophysics.

Business model & financing:
The partnerships is funded within the Clusters4Future initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), which aims at promoting regional innovation networks for the benefit of economy and society. PROXIDRUGS will be funded with up to 15 M € for the next three years.
Beside the funding from the BMBF, the cluster additionally receives support from its partners.

Impact:
The new class of proximity-induced drugs allows for the targeted degradation of disease-relevant proteins (target structures), opening up new therapeutic options in numerous diseases, amongst them some with high unmet medical need


Weighting of research:
Applied research, development and implementation
Companies

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the Rhine-Main region

Address

Goethe University

Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQST)

Quantum Physics

Allmandring, 70569 Stuttgart

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Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQST)

Quantum Physics
University or Research Institution University of Stuttgart, Ulm University, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Info Initiation:
IQST is a center for fundamental research in quantum science and technologies. It was established in April 2014 with the generous financial support of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Ulm University and the University of Stuttgart.
The two universities and the Max Planck Institute have a longstanding cross-disciplinary collaboration with each other as well as innovative companies and the state of Baden-Württemberg. The existing collaboration has been the foundation for establishing the IQST.

The center is part of the Quantum Alliance, which is a consortium of German Clusters of Excellence and research centers working in quantum science and technology.

Type of collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders


The IQST consists of three centers:
- Center of Quantum bioscience, ZQB (Ulm University)
- Precision laboratory (Max Planck)
- Center for applied Quantum Technology, ZAQuant (Stuttgart university)


Governance:
The governance of the center is controlled by three enterties.

1. Executive board
The board provides leadership for all future development (i.e. long-term funding, research areas, collaborations)

2. Scientific advisory board
It consists of external renowned experts in academia and industry, who counsel the Executive board to ensure high quality research activities and “stimulating infrastructure”.

3. Managing team
It consists of people with many years of experience in academia and industry. They support the board in the overall management of the center. They put ideas into action and provide oversight of all the center’s activities.


Business model & financing:
IQST is funded by the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, Carl Zeiss Foundation, Ulm University and University of Stuttgart.

Impact:
The IQST is amongst other things part of the joint project QSens (w. Bosch, Zeiss, Trumpf and Bruker), who won the competition “Clusters4future”.
Furthermore, the center is in the process of building a quantum computer with the project QRydDemo, and has formed the nationwide network QTBW.net.

Weighting of research:
- Prototype research (University of Stuttgart)
- Translating advanced quantum into medical and quantum applications (Ulm University)
- Research into quantum materials and their application in sensors and electronics (Max Planck)

Companies

Bosch, Zeiss, Trumpf, and Bruker

Address

Allmandring, 70569 Stuttgart

Medical Valley

Health care in rural areas

Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Im Neuenheimer Feld 515, 92224 Amberg

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Medical Valley

Health care in rural areas
University or Research Institution Medical Valley EMN e. V
Info Initiation:
Medical Valley EMN (European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg) was founded on 1 January 2007. The purpose of the Medical Valley organization it to optimize the networking of science, business and health care, thereby shortening the innovation cycle of new medical technology products.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholder

Governance:
Medical Valley EMN e. V. operates as a uniting cluster management organization. The key tasks of cluster management are the development, coordination, and marketing of the cluster.

Business model & financing:
The Medical Valley receives funds from institutional investors.
Furthermore, the cluster is supported by the federal government. In January 2010, Medical Valley EMN was appointed “National Top Cluster” by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In April 2017, Medical Valley, ZollhofTech Incubator and the Health Hackers, was named one of twelve national “Digital Hubs” by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

Impact:
From the leading edge cluster, Siemens Healthcare developed the first medical whole-body scanner that combines magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) in a single system. The cluster acquires R&D grants for its partners.

Weighting of research:
Applied research, development and implementation
Companies

Medical Valley has more than 210 members

Address

Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Im Neuenheimer Feld 515, 92224 Amberg

BioMed X

Life Science and Welfare Tech

BioMed X GmbH, Im Neuenheimer Feld 515, 69120 Heidelberg

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BioMed X

Life Science and Welfare Tech
University or Research Institution BioMed X Institute
Info Initiation:
BioMed X was funded in 2014 and is an independent research institute located at the campus environment of the University of Heidelberg in Southern Germany. They perform biomedical preclinical research projects in the fields of biomedicine, molecular biology, cell biology and diagnostics.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
The research at BioMed X is divided into 4 areas led by a team. Each team is supervised by renowned experts in a topic committee – a professor from Heidelberg University, a department head from the sponsoring company and a team coach. The topic committee reports to a joint steering committee consisting of representatives from BioMed X and the respective pharma partner.

Business model & financing:
Projects are determined by industry which they fund the first two years with possibility of a 2 year extension. Each project is evaluated after the 2–4-year funding period, and successful project are either internalized into the development pipeline of the pharma sponsor or spun off into an independent startup company.

Impact:
Since BioMed X’ s foundation several research projects have been transferred to the sponsoring pharma partner including all data, materials and intellectual property rights.

Weighting of research:
Applied research, development and implementation
Companies

Key partners: AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim group, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Roche

Address

BioMed X GmbH, Im Neuenheimer Feld 515, 69120 Heidelberg

ARENA2036

Advanced Production Mobility Mobility improvement Technological change in the automative sector

ARENA 2036 e.V., Pfaffenwaldring 19, 70569 Stuttgart

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ARENA2036

Advanced Production Mobility Mobility improvement Technological change in the automative sector
University or Research Institution University of Stuttgart, The German Institute of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf, The German Aerospace Center & The Fraunhofer Institute
Info Initiation:
ARENA2036 was founded in 2013 after the ARENA2036 project won the competition “Research Campus - Public-private Partnerships for Innovation” held by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The center was founded by the University of Stuttgart, The German Institute of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf, The German Aerospace Center, The Fraunhofer Institute, Daimler AG, BASF SE & Robert Bosch GmbH. ARENA2036 conducts research into the vehicle production of tomorrow and aims to become one of the major research platforms worldwide.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholder

Governance:
ARENA2036 is run as a registered association with members from science and industry. Peter Froeschle is the CEO of the center.

Business model & financing:
ARENA2036 is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The funding initiative is designed to run for a total of 15 years, and the research campus receives up to two million euros per year. How the funding money is allocated depends on the research project. The center runs three different project types:
- Collaborative projects: In line with the ARENA2036 vision, 5-year projects, publicly funded
- Focus projects: Spring from the collaborative projects in order to focus on a specific area, 3-year duration, mostly publicly funded
- Fast boats: Privately financed projects lasting between 1-12 months with the aim of testing the relevance of a research question

Impact:
The center is hosting around different programmes including Startup Autobahn and Europe’s largest open innovation platform on mobility. Furthermore, ARENA2036 has the first 5G indoor navigation platform and has received considerable international attention leading to companies outside of Europe signing on as partners.

Weighting of research:
Basic and applied research, development and implementation
Companies

31 partners including large companies and small and medium-sized enterprises.

Address

ARENA 2036 e.V., Pfaffenwaldring 19, 70569 Stuttgart

RWTH Aachen Campus

Digitization Environment Globalization Industry 4.0 Mobility

RWTH Innovation Factory GmbH, Campus-Boulevard 57, 52074 Aachen

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RWTH Aachen Campus

Digitization Environment Globalization Industry 4.0 Mobility
University or Research Institution RWTH Aachen University
Info Initiation:
To promote more interdisciplinary and consortial cooperation, RWTH Aachen University launched the project RWTH Aachen Campus in 2009 as part of its growth strategy. The campus creates a platform for solving complex issues within digitalization, automation, mobility, climate change, globalization or the demographic development by gathering academic and industrial competencies.

Type of collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
RWTH Aachen Campus GmbH was founded specifically to assume the management of the RWTH Aachen Campus. As a joint subsidiary of RWTH Aachen University (95%) and the City of Aachen (5%) it is responsible for the development, realization and safeguarding of the overall Campus concept.

Business model & financing:
RTWH Aachen Campus consist of research clusters including companies. To house the clusters, centers are build across its three campuses (melatonin, mitte & west). To finance the centers both public funding and private investors are utilized.

Impact:
interdisciplinary teams and industry consortia work jointly on visionary approaches to solving issues of the future.

Weighting of research:
Basic and applied research
Companies

More than 400 companies are involved (start-ups, hidden champions, large companies etc.)

Address

RWTH Innovation Factory GmbH, Campus-Boulevard 57, 52074 Aachen

Schaeffler Hub for Advanced Research at Friedrich-Alexander University (SHARE at FAU)

Advanced Production

Erlangen-Nürnberg Schlossplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen

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Schaeffler Hub for Advanced Research at Friedrich-Alexander University (SHARE at FAU)

Advanced Production
University or Research Institution Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Info Initiation:
The SHARE at FAU was founded in July 2016 with the aim of transferring innovative approaches in the context of AI at an early stage into industrial application scenarios. The SHARE center is part of the company on campus initiative by Schaeffler.

Type of Collaboration:
1:1 collaboration

Governance:
It will be structured similar to SHARE at KIT (see other partnership), which have a head of the center and a head/group leader of the main research topics.

IPR management:
FAU has signed a cooperation agreement with Schaeffler

Impact:
The goal of the agreement is to jointly work on research topics in the area of digitalization and production processes and to test their industrial application at an early stage.

Weighting of research:
Applied research, development and implementation.
Companies

Schaeffler

Address

Erlangen-Nürnberg Schlossplatz 4, 91054 Erlangen

Battery and Electrochemistry Laboratory (BELLA)

Electrochemistry and batteries Energy

Institute of Nanotechnology KIT, Campus North Main Building 640 and Building 717, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

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Battery and Electrochemistry Laboratory (BELLA)

Electrochemistry and batteries Energy
University or Research Institution Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Info Initiation:
The Batteries and Electrochemistry Laboratory (BELLA) was established to link “electrochemical know-how in industrial application at BASF SE with the fundamental research of KIT”. The two partners already had a partnership and wanted to strengthen this by developing a joint laboratory for accelerating the implementation of research results in products for high-energy battery systems.

Type of Collaboration:
1:1 Partnership

Governance:
The laboratory has two heads from BASF. Additionally, a team leader from BASF SE and a lab manager from KIT are in charge of the daily operation of the laboratory, including project planning and organization.

Business model & financing:
BELLA is funded equally by KIT and BASF SE, who each invested €12 million in the first five years (from 2011). The lab belongs to the Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) at Karslruhe Institute of Technology.

Impact:
The research at BELLA goes into next generation battery materials and technologies. Their research focuses on topics such as In-Situ Gas Analysis of Lithium-Ion Batteries, High-Capacity Anodes, All-Solid-State Batteries and Degradation Mechanism Analysis of Lithium-Ion Battery Full-Cells.

Weighting of research:
Basic and applied research, implementation
Companies

BASF SE

Address

Institute of Nanotechnology KIT, Campus North Main Building 640 and Building 717, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

Global Aerospace Campus

Education Space & Security

Willy-Messerschmitt-Straße 1, 85521 Taufkirchen, Germany

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Global Aerospace Campus

Education Space & Security
University or Research Institution Munich Aerospace e.V.
Info Initiation:
The Global Aerospace Campus was launched in 2016 by Munich Aerospace as an international concept focusing on continuing education, networking and research within aerospace. It is an online training platform with virtual and in-person components in order to provide specialized training to aerospace engineers, researchers and industrial experts.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
It is a virtual campus with Prof. Dr.-Ing Klaus Drechsler as a lead partner with Munich Aerospace e.V. and the Technische Universität München.

Weighting of research:
Educational purpose
Companies

Partner regions: Québec (Canada), São Paulo (Brazil), Western Cape (South Africa), Georgia (USA), Shandong (China) and Upper Austria

Address

Willy-Messerschmitt-Straße 1, 85521 Taufkirchen, Germany

Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI)

Digital Service Systems Education

Kollegiengebäude am Kronenplatz, Kaiserstr. 89, D-76133 Karlsruhe

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Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI)

Digital Service Systems Education
University or Research Institution Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Info Initiation:
The institution was jointly founded in 2008 by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and IBM Germany. In 2013 the partnership was extended to include BOSCH. At KSRI they research complex service networks by focusing on coordination, supply, innovation, optimization and more. Their focus has a broad range, they investigate services in the IT sector, the energy industry, healthcare, mobility, supply chain and industrial services.

Type of Collaboration:
Multiple stakeholders

Governance:
KSRI has evolved to a research hub with seven research groups from different academic disciplines. Each research group is led by a collaborative innovation member.
Furthermore, KSRI's five labs with a lab leader each.

Business model & financing:
The institute is funded publicly and privately through its continuous addition of new projects and interdisciplinary research.

The KSRI offers three collaboration models for industry:
1. Design thinking platforms: they are projects of a duration of 9 months, which companies can offer the students of KIT as an innovation challenge.
2: Strategic Partnerships: they are entry-level industry-on-campus partnerships lasting up to 3 years. The collaboration is based on joint innovation between KIT and industry.
3. Consortium projects: they are on a specific research topic often supported by the government. Research groups and industrial partners work together for 2-3 years on the topic.

Impact:
KSRI is a private-public-partnership between industry and academia. Their institute provides students, future researchers, and practitioners in the field of service science, a service innovation hub and education.

Weighting of research:
Applied research, Education
Companies

IBM & Bosch

Address

Kollegiengebäude am Kronenplatz, Kaiserstr. 89, D-76133 Karlsruhe

Ludwig Bölkow Campus (LBC)

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Integrated Systems Public Security Technology

Willy-Messerschmitt-Straße 1, 85521 Taufkirchen, Germany

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Ludwig Bölkow Campus (LBC)

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Integrated Systems Public Security Technology
University or Research Institution Munich Aerospace e.V. (The Technical University of Munich, the University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, the German Aerospace Centre, and the think tank Bauhaus Luftfahrt)
Info Initiation:
The Ludwig-Bölkow Campus was founded in March 2012 under the concept campus@industry. The aim of the campus it to create an international hub for trend-setting innovations, new approaches and hands-on training in the fields of aerospace and security. To achieve their goal, industry, represented by Ludwig Bölkow Campus GmbH, and science, represented by Munich Aerospace e.V., work closely together.

Governance:
Munich Aerospace e.V. and Ludwig Bölkow Campus GmbH are responsible for the management and development of the Ludwig Bölkow Campus.
A Steering Committee and an Extended Steering Committee controls the decision-making.
The Steering Committee consists of three Munich Aerospace representatives and three LBC GmbH representatives. They are responsible for all operative issues, decisions about new research projects and preparing decision-making documentation for the Extended Steering Committee.
The Extended Steering Committee consists of at least one representative from each of the Ludwig Bölkow Campus consortium partners. It convenes twice annually and decides on content-related and strategic matters pertaining to the Campus.

Business model & financing:
the Free State of Bavaria supports their research within Green Aerospace, Public Security, Autonomous Systems and Integrated Systems.
The Bavarian Ministry of Economics funded almost €11m for the centers first three research projects (inlc. algae technical centre and powerlab).

Impact:
The LBC is an Incubator for start-ups such as Munich Composites, Cevotec or APWorks.
Furthermore, since mid-2014, the Ludwig Bölkow Campus has been a branch of the Business Incubation Centres (BIC) of the European Space Agency ESA.

Weighting of research:
Applied research, development and implementation
Companies

Ludwig Bölkow Campus GmbH (AirBus, Siemens, IABG)

Address

Willy-Messerschmitt-Straße 1, 85521 Taufkirchen, Germany

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