Innovation and Regional Management

Areas of competence

• Foresight and Future Studies,
  • i. e. focus on application and further development of methods and processes of strategic foresight,
  • strategic foresight in networks (open foresight),
  • technological scenarios,
  • scenarios for strategic planning in companies,
  • scenarios in the field of regional development
• Conception and implementation of scenario analysis in different fields of technology / sector
• Implementation and shaping of open innovation processes in collaboration with companies from different sectors and inclusion of scientific, university and societal partners
• Implementation of systematic and structured creative processes in interdisciplinary teams, use of different creativity methods, methods of Futures Studies (e. g. scenario analysis, trend and technology scouting) in the context of e. g. Innovation Camps

Laboratories

• ViNN:Lab (Makerspace / Creative lab)

Equipment

• Workstations equipped with specialized software for scenario development as well as design and development work
• Hardware used for rapid prototyping including large scale 3D printers (FDM and SLA), 3D scanners, CNC-milling, laser cutter, VR (camera and glasses)

Network memberships

• FGF e. V. (Scientific association for entrepreneurship, innovation and SME in the German-speaking world)
• German Academic Assocation for Business Research (VHB)
• International Fab Lab Association
• Network TA (Technology Assessment)
• ProcessNet

Cooperations

• Broad network of companies from Berlin / Brandenburg metropolitan region
• CENTRE FOR ENERGY STUDIES Tischner European University (TEUCES)
• Finland Futures Research Centre at the University of Turku
• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
• Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space
• Rhine Ruhr Institute for Social Research and Policy Consulting
• University of Flensburg ("Europa-Universität Flensburg")

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