Research and development as a core task
Research at Siemens is represented directly on the Managing Board. That gives it the weight and position necessary for top-flight knowledge transfer.
Our research and development organization is led by Managing Board member Klaus Helmrich, our Chief Technology Officer (CTO), who is also responsible for our central research unit Corporate Technology (CT). This underscores the great importance of innovation management at Siemens. Our innovative strength is regularly a topic at the Managing Board’s annual strategy meeting. We assess this strength on the basis of three criteria: safeguarding the company’s long-term future, enhancing our technological competitiveness, and optimizing the allocation of resources for research and development (R&D).
Under the leadership of Klaus Helmrich we bring together the world’s best experts to help shape technical and social trends. To do that we leverage the synergies of our central research and development unit and our Divisions in the four Sectors Industry, Energy, Infrastructure & Cities and Healthcare.
Siemens researcher Dr. Rainer Falk has developed a method to help e-cars feed electricity back into the grid when necessary.
While business-related research and development is conducted by the Divisions, the central R&D department is responsible for producing cross-Sector innovations, supporting innovation networks and fostering contacts with universities and other scientific institutions. One of CT’s important horizontal tasks is to build synergies among the operating units’ various technologies and fields of application.
- Innovation - Management Approach
- Overview
- Environmental Portfolio Innovations
- Central Research
- Making the most of employee knowledge
- Tapping outside knowledge