
Open Innovation at ALTANA AG
ALTANA AG is a member, among others, of some innovation networks:

Futurebizz is a Germany-wide “open innovation” network for companies in all industries.
It serves trend monitoring and the exchange of new business ideas on the topics of living and working.
future-bizz.de

The Cluster for Industrial Biotechnology (CLIB 2021) is a regional network in North Rhine-Westphalia that links up chemical and biotechnology companies with scientific institutes and investors.
www.clib2021.de

The “Innovationsallianz Carbon Nanotubes (CNT)” is an initiative launched by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Berlin. It conducts fundamental research and tries to find out in which applications the tiny carbon tubes discovered at the beginning of the 1990s might be successful.
www.inno-cnt.de

The cooperative project MaDrix is driving the development of high-performance printed radio frequency identification tags (RFID). It is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
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The Organic Electronics Association (OE-A) is an international information and communications platform promoting the development of a competitive infrastructure for the production of organic electronics. OE-A represents the entire organic electronics value chain, from material manufacturers, to plant builders and manufacturers, to users.
www.oe-a.org

UnternehmerTUM GmbH - Center for Innovation and Business Creation – based at the Garching campus of the Technische Universität München devotes itself to fostering entrepreneurial talent and provides business plan seminars, workshops, a support program for junior executives, and assistance for prospective entrepreneurs free of charge.
www.unternehmertum.de

The InnovationsAllianz (Innovation Alliance) works consistently to improve the collaboration between companies and other social organizations with the universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. Companies in NRW support the InnovationsAllianz in its aim to make North Rhine-Westphalia the top innovation site and to secure this position long-term.
Members of the "InnovationsClub NRW" are companies either based or represented with a branch office in NRW that, together with the InnovationsAllianz, represent a "spearhead for innovation in NRW" and are looking to strengthen the collaboration between science and industry in order to make the innovative ability of North Rhine-Westphalia stronger.
www.innovationsallianz.nrw.de
