Organisation profile

Steinbeis 2i GmbH was founded in 2016 as a 100% spin-off of Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ) and has offices located in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe (Germany). Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum of the Steinbeis Innovation gGmbH (SEZ) belongs to the Steinbeis Foundation for Economic Promotion. The Foundation runs a network of approximately a thousand Technology Transfer Centres with the overarching aim to bridge the gap between science and application, turning R&D results into an actual economic advantage, and making a whole spectrum of the latest technology and management insights available to large companies, SMEs, and individual entrepreneurs alike.

Field of expertise: products and services essential to value-added benefit

The core competences of the S2i team involved in the project are:

• Vast experience in community building, foresight, roadmapping and outreach activities, organising workshops, conferences and brokerage events for technology transfer.
• Facilitation of networking among innovation actors, e.g. through the professional and competent organisation of European conferences and events.
• Advice for policy makers and administrations on regional future scenarios, on innovation and cluster policy issues and support of knowledge exchange at European level. Close links to the Digitising European Industry Initiative.
• Assistance in the exploitation of research results (IPR issues, market studies, business plans and models, etc.), in transnational technology transfer, in the stimulation and support of the innovation process in industrial companies, and in providing professional training.
• Expert knowledge in communication and dissemination of research and innovation projects as well as their results.
• Managing and implementing cross-border innovation projects, and taking steps to internationalise and enter European markets.