Innovation Journey

If the next big thing isn’t a thing, but a place, you should see that place with your own eyes. And that’s why we are offering Innovation Journeys. Accompanied with our experts you will dive into the ecosystem of the Innovation Factory on RWTH Aachen Campus. You will learn about the place where the electric vehicles StreetScooter and e.GO Life as well as the small electric hybrid aircraft Silent Air Taxi were invented and developed. Let us inspire you with captivating impulse presentations and get an insight behind the scenes of one of the biggest research areas in Europe.

Workshops

Through individual off-site-workshops on RWTH Aachen Campus, configured for each specific use case, we offer you the possibility to learn about the different phases of innovation, one by one. You decide on which topic the workshops focuses, whether it’s a general insight of the idea generation process or a production concept for a fully developed product. All workshop will be accompanied by technical experts and our agile coaches, to exceed your expectations and fulfill your individual goals.

Projects

Within the Innovation Factory, companies realize innovations faster, better and leaner. Through individual innovation projects you have the opportunity to address your main topics. In agile sprints the Innovation Factory, based on RWTH Aachen Campus ecosystem, will help you to find solutions. Our agile coaches support your project teams apart from the daily work environment in all phases of the development process, to realize groundbreaking innovations in an inspiring ecosystem.

Accelerator

Leading innovators allocate their project budget according to the 70/20/10 rule. 70% strengthening the core businesses, 20% expansion of existing business activities, 10% potentially disruptive innovations. An Accelerator on RWTH Aachen Campus enables you to explore and implement 20/10%-topics in a fast and cost-effective manner: On-demand access to technical experts on site, high-end prototyping capacities and practice-approved agile-coaches.
The Accelerator team, consisting of your employees and our experts, will continuously fill your innovation pipeline with new ideas and propel them until market launch.

Your contact person for your Accelerator

Dr.-Ing. Casimir Ortlieb

Executive Board Member

RWTH Innovation Factory GmbH

E-Mail: c.ortlieb@rwth-if.com

Camp

In the Innovation Factory camps, companies have the opportunity to go through the various phases of the iterative innovation process, always with the ecosystem of the RWTH Aachen Campus in the background. Together with experts from the Innovation Factory, the journey from a first brainstorming to the real product begins for the first companies in our camp in Karl-Friedrich Straße. The temporary use of the camp premises allows access to the necessary technologies and fully equipped workshops and at the same time provides the necessary space for creativity. Get to know our camp in the Karl-Friedrich Straße and start developing something new there.

Your contact person for our Camp

Dr.-Ing. Casimir Ortlieb

Executive Board Member

RWTH Innovation Factory GmbH

E-Mail: c.ortlieb@rwth-if.com