Steinbeis Foundation
The Steinbeis Foundation is the roof of a network, which is active in the specific knowledge and technology transfer.
Namesake of the foundation is Ferdinand von Steinbeis (1807-1893), who created the Württemberg economy politicians the basis of dual training in medium-sized companies.
History
Ferdinand von Steinbeis founded in 1868 the first Steinbeis Foundation to promote the industrial training of young people. The Foundation lost their fortunes during the inflation in 1923 and broke up. In 1971 she was established as a foundation under civil law new in Stuttgart. The former Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Lothar Späth appointed in 1983 Johann Löhn the Government Commissioner for Technology Transfer, who took over at the same time the position of CEO of the Steinbeis Foundation until 2004. He built the former network of 16 technical advisory services to colleges in Baden -Württemberg in Germany a wide and effective international cooperation with Steinbeis 2013 around 1,000 companies and is now Honorary Trustee of the Foundation. The Foundation is now managed by Michael Auer (Chair) and Manfred Mattulat, a Board of Trustees establishes the principles of the work of the Foundation.
Foundation's mission
The foundation is " to provide [ ... ] economy of the country scientific evidence [ ... ] available. " The task of the (Statute of the Steinbeis Foundation ).
Activities of the Foundation
The annual award transfer price of the Steinbeis Foundation, the Löhn Award, recognizes successful projects of competitive knowledge and technology transfer. The prize is awarded at Steinbeis enterprises and their project partners and with up to 60,000 euros in prize money doped. The Löhn Award was initiated in 2004 for evaluating the performance of Johann Löhn and first awarded.
In three forums examines issues of Steinbeis topics Competence, consulting and engineering. As part of the Steinbeis Foundation mission, the Foundation organizes regular conferences on current priorities.
In the four times a year appearing Transfer magazine reported the composite of projects and events of the specific knowledge and technology transfers. The publisher Steinbeis-Edition comes the knowledge after the publication of publications of the experts of the Steinbeis Network. The Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute supports the Steinbeis centers as project partners in the preparation of studies and conducts its own investigations.
Composite
The Steinbeis network form the so-called Steinbeis Enterprises over which the transfer entrepreneurial knowledge and technology transfer takes place. Your seat have the Steinbeis Enterprises mainly at universities and research institutions.
For Steinbeis Network 900 professionally specialized Steinbeis Enterprises include ( Steinbeis transfer centers, counseling centers, research and innovation centers, transfer institutions and limited liability companies ) in Germany and worldwide. You are in the service sector consulting, research & development, analysis & expertise as well as education and training worked. The Steinbeis University Berlin is a subsidiary and offers over Steinbeis - Transfer-Institute in particular part-time education and training.
Turnover
Using the services of research and development, consulting, training and development, analysis and expertise of the network in 2011 achieved a total turnover of 134 million euros.
Employee
The heads of centers and institutes worked in 2011 with 1,462 employees and 3,631 freelancers together. A total of 697 professors in 2011 were working for Steinbeis.