SPRIN-D Federal Agency
For Disruptive Innovation
A home for
people with radical new ideas The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND is creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different.
people with radical new ideas The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND is creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different.
We do what we do because we love it. We want to assist innovators who think the same way with their work, their progress. What this involves, for instance, is focusing not on control, but on shared goals and values.
Seeing and using opportunities, developing and implementing visions.
We have a great desire to tackle things and get something done.
The future is what we make of it.
We have a great desire to tackle things and get something done.
The future is what we make of it.
Curiosity is the force that drives us. We burn to solve the big problems and take conscious risks to accomplish this.
We work all over Germany. We believe in strong networks – with shared goals.
We believe in humanist values – in freedom, self-determination and democracy.
We support only civilian projects, not military ones.
The common good and social issues are at the forefront of our work.
We support only civilian projects, not military ones.
The common good and social issues are at the forefront of our work.
We want to transfer ideas into products and services that bring long-term benefits for Germany and Europe. That's why we always think and act entrepreneurially – with the agility of a start-up.
We are creating an environment in which personalities can unfold, focus on their strengths and collaborate with fellow innovators.
Magazine
SPRIND's first disruptive innovation is the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation. An article about the last two years with more than 800 project submissions, the foundation of six subsidiary GmbHs and the conception of novel innovation competitions.
Read the article about SPRIND (in German).
Read the article about SPRIND (in German).
Our host Thomas Ramge asks: Prof. Dr. Eicke Latz, Director of the Institute for Innate Immunity at the University of Bonn and serial founder of biotech startups.
Listen to the episode on Spotify (in German).
Listen to the episode on Spotify (in German).
Read the interview with Barbara Diehl on FokusTransfer (in German).
ABOUT US
We are the newly established “German Agency for Disruptive Innovation” (SPRIND). We support disruptive innovations. Rafael Laguna de la Vera is the founding director of SPRIND.
We create spaces in which innovators can take risks and think in radically different ways. We also create an entrepreneurial setting to bring ideas to the market.
We accomplish this by identifying “high potentials” – known as “hipos” for short – in research institutions, universities and the business community and assist them before, during and after creating a startup. We assemble working teams that bring disruptive innovations to life: products, services and systems that make life tangibly better for all of us in the long run.
“Made in Germany 2.0:” We create a spirit of optimism in Germany and Europe – working together to generate economic benefits that come to life here in Germany and help secure our future prosperity. The first projects with our support promote European solutions in digitalization (analog computers, artificial intelligence, sovereign cloud stack, a project within GAIA-X) or accelerate groundbreaking innovations in the fields of life sciences, environmental technologies and sustainability.
Are you yourself working on great ideas, discoveries and inventions for the future that offer answers to the immense challenges of our time and can lead to economic benefits in Germany and Europe? We invite you to introduce us to your specific project for disruptive innovation here.
We create spaces in which innovators can take risks and think in radically different ways. We also create an entrepreneurial setting to bring ideas to the market.
We accomplish this by identifying “high potentials” – known as “hipos” for short – in research institutions, universities and the business community and assist them before, during and after creating a startup. We assemble working teams that bring disruptive innovations to life: products, services and systems that make life tangibly better for all of us in the long run.
“Made in Germany 2.0:” We create a spirit of optimism in Germany and Europe – working together to generate economic benefits that come to life here in Germany and help secure our future prosperity. The first projects with our support promote European solutions in digitalization (analog computers, artificial intelligence, sovereign cloud stack, a project within GAIA-X) or accelerate groundbreaking innovations in the fields of life sciences, environmental technologies and sustainability.
Are you yourself working on great ideas, discoveries and inventions for the future that offer answers to the immense challenges of our time and can lead to economic benefits in Germany and Europe? We invite you to introduce us to your specific project for disruptive innovation here.