Research Areas

The research strength of the institute lies in the combination of theory and practice, as well as in the combination of research, teaching and transfer. We focus on long-term cooperation with the most important research institutions in the region, based on research connections beyond the University of Stuttgart with intensive international partnerships. Our guiding principle is here the `Stuttgart Way`, which is focused on interdisciplinary cooperation.

Scope & Focus

Technological innovations are a key driver to wealth and employment. Hence, it is important to understand how these innnovations emerge and diffuse. With our diverse and international teams, we use state-of-the art methods to foster understanding in these areas.

Key questions are:

• We study how individuals and organizations find ideas for new applications for (new or existing) technologies.
• We study how new technologies and scientific advances are transformed into innovations.
• We study how they create new organizations and how they contribute to build to existing or new ecosystems.

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We study how individuals and firms can enhance their creativity and ideation capabilities, using workshops, techniques, and tools in different types of innovation spaces within and beyond organizational boundaries.

We contribute to activate the transfer of scientific and technological advances from the lab to the market, from the perspective of the scientist and the innovation ecosystem.

We focus on the roots of ”constraint- based innovation” approaches to study how it can be used in the next generation of technology innovations using a frugal engineering approach.

We study how entrepreneurs transform emerging technologies into new ventures and contribute to generate new ecosystems.