SPRIN-D
Federal Agency
For Disruptive Innovation
A home for
people with radical new ideas We are creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different: With an entrepreneurial environment to bring ideas to the market and enthusiasm for progress with sustainable value.
people with radical new ideas We are creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different: With an entrepreneurial environment to bring ideas to the market and enthusiasm for progress with sustainable value.
Innovations come about through passion
Innovations come about through passion
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.
We can shape the future
We can shape the future
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.
Failure is part of this
Failure is part of this
Curiosity is the force that drives us. We burn to solve the big problems and take conscious risks to accomplish this.
Quantum leap innovations call for strong networks
Quantum leap innovations call for strong networks
We work all over Germany. We believe in strong networks – with shared goals.
We focus on people and the common good
We focus on people and the common good
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.
Progress calls for entrepreneurial thought and action
Progress calls for entrepreneurial thought and action
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.
Success calls for personality and teamwork
Success calls for personality and teamwork
We are creating an environment in which personalities can unfold, focus on their strengths and collaborate with fellow innovators.
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BUILDING A CULTURE OF ENABLING AND EMPOWERMENT
Barbara Diehl is responsible for building partnerships at SPRIND.
Barbara Diehl is responsible for building partnerships at SPRIND.
The focus lies on universities, research institutions and industry associations. Previously, she was division manager for transfer and innovation at the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. Here she introduces herself personally and describes her mission at SPRIND.
SPIN-OFFS – MAKING THE EXCEPTION THE RULE!
Many researchers at scientific institutes and universities could also be successful founders.
Many researchers at scientific institutes and universities could also be successful founders.
Let´s make their first entrepreneurial steps easier for them. A point of view by Rafael Laguna. Including a possible solution to facilitate more leapfrog innovations from basic research. #researchingfounders
CHAIRS OF THE SPRIND SUPERVISORY BOARD ELECTED
On 22. September Peter Leibinger and Birgitta Wolff were elected chairman and deputy chairwoman.
On 22. September Peter Leibinger and Birgitta Wolff were elected chairman and deputy chairwoman.
From now on, five women and five men with proven expertise in science, business and politics will accompany the activities of SPRIND.
All important information and decisions from the meeting can be found here.
All important information and decisions from the meeting can be found here.
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.