Projects

 

Valorisation28: From Knowledge to Impact

Knowledge creates impact when it is taken up by people and society. In the Valo28 project, we work in close collaboration with Germany’s four major research-performing organisations (RPOs) to explore how integrating different realities of life increases the added value of research results – for higher quality research and greater economic and social benefits from innovation.

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Analyzing Knowledge and Technology Transfer Potential in the Innovation System Southern Africa

The project aims to analyze the potential of technology transfer for science, industry and society in national innovation systems in Southern Africa. ...
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Gender in knowledge and technology transfer

The purpose of knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) is to commercialize and promote scientific findings and technological advances to the public, which occurs through publications, patents, licenses, and start-ups.
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The Knowledge Triangle

Innovation occurs at the intersection of different fields, trends, and perspectives. Highly technological businesses require a broad array of knowledge and skills that would be difficult for a single individual or discipline to provide.
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The UNITECH Project

Seeking to explore what kinds of organizational cultures might be most effective in attracting and retaining highly skilled and internationally mobile engineers, Fraunhofer CeRRI conducted an exploratory study in cooperation with ETH Zurich and the UNITECH International Society.
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Innovating Scientific Careers

For Germany to actualize its potential for innovation and to secure its position in the face of global competition, it must provide appealing career prospects to its scientists ...
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Knowledge Pool – fostering research-oriented start-ups

The Knowledge Pool project brings together groups of people with complementary skills at an early stage in research projects in order to mutually define markets, to address these with new technologies, establish appropriate teams and to evaluate project ideas.
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Discover Markets

Seeking to accommodate public preferences and to foster the viability of innovations, Discover Markets has developed an original participatory methodology that always keeps an eye toward creating marketable products and centers the entire research and development process on the lay perspective.
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MyRehab

Developed in cooperation with Fraunhofer FIRST and the Physical Rehabilitation Center of Lübben, this web-connected home trainer is intended, in general, to both motivate regular exercise and prevent health-related problems and, in particular, to provide a post-clinical opportunity for supervised, interactive, and mobile physical therapy.
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Akrobatik@home – support for people with limited mobility

Akrobatik@home seeks to provide an opportunity for both physical support and consistent interactive physical therapy to people with limited mobility who, for example, suffer from rheumatism, age-related issues, and, in particular, malformation of limbs. ...
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Shaping Future – Neuartiges Vorgehensmodell für die partizipative bedarfsorientierte Technologievorschau

Seeking to enable the »experts in everyday« to co-shape long-term trajectories of socio-technological advances, Shaping Future has developed an original participatory foresight methodology that draws from both design know-how and the social sciences.
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AcademiaNet

The goal of this project supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation is to analyze the career paths of women scientists within the AcademiaNet portal ...
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Creating Futures in Science

Together with Portia Ltd. and Tel Aviv University Fraunhofer is creating a new 'tool' to support female scientists at an early stage of their career enabling more informed and more efficient career planning.
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Transfer Platform – New Media for Technology Transfer

Knowledge and technology transfer is driven by people working together to develop creative ideas and innovative solutions across organizations and disciplines. This trend will continue to influence the future of the working world ...
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Gender in Knowledge and Technology Transfer

The goal of the exploratory project Gender in Knowledge and Technology Transfer is to make knowledge and technology transfer even more successful. This is to be achieved via better integration of the dimension of gender as well as through the systematic consideration of women and men throughout the entire process.
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Innovation Academy 2013

Seeking to identify promising research trajectories in the life sciences and to motivate young scientists to start businesses, Innovation Academy 2013 expands Discover Markets’ method to foster consumer-centered business ideas in biotechnology.
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Workshops for the Cell-free Organic Products project

In a series of specifically designed workshops, a group of laypersons who were both potentially interested in such products-to-be and otherwise, developed a range of visions of the future – both for and with these products.
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Diversity and Equality in the Church

The Church possesses an unparallel capacity to provide guidance and direction to our community. In the spirit of Christian values, the EKD has sought to promote diversity among its clergy since the synod set equality objectives in 1989.
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