Open Innovation Congress Baden-Württemberg 2023

The Open Innovation Congress Baden-Württemberg 2023 is under the motto "The Future is now". Open Innovation makes a significant contribution to strengthening the innovative strength of the economy and growth.

" Innovations are the engine of a strong economy. Innovations create solutions for the future. This applies especially in the age of an intensive global competition. Industry, especially in the field of research and development, react at short notice on the one hand, and on the other hand pursue long -term goals, ”said Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, Minister of Economics, Labor and Tourism, on March 6, 2023 in Stuttgart on the occasion of the opening of the Each open innovation-congress Baden-Württemberg 2023 (OIK BW) . Above all, Start-ups , which mostly have to do without a large research department, are often faced with challenges in innovation processes: "The key is in cooperation: Networking, exchanging knowledge can make a decisive contribution to accelerating innovation processes and bringing innovations to success earlier.

"Open innovation contributes significantly to strengthening the innovative strength of the economy and growth. That is why it is important for the small and medium-sized companies in Baden-Württemberg to go new ways of transformation and dynamization of the innovation in the country and to be open to cooperation and innovation partnerships. Support innovation efforts in the company, ”says Hoffmeister-Kraut.

Open innovation accelerates the implementation of innovative business models

whether mobility, health, digitization, space travel, green tech, alternative proteins or quantum technology - with open innovation, innovative business models in future industries can be implemented faster and better, the minister is convinced. Areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), sustainability, synthetic fuels, renewable energies and drives as well as fuel cells and core fusion also play an important role. "All of these are topics that have gained a significant impact on explosiveness through current developments," said the minister.

In her opening speech,

she referred to the country's excellent reputation as a location of the innovation. "With a research and development quota of 5.8 percent, Baden-Württemberg is by far the top of the state of the strongest of innovation and in Europe."