Collaborations and Open Innovation

The Siemens Research and Innovation Ecosystem clusters 16 globally spread local ecosystems, which are designed to conduct collaborative and excellent research together. Universities, universities for applied sciences, research institutes, incubators, business partners and start-ups work together with Siemens experts to find solutions for today’s most urgent challenges. The Siemens Research and Innovation Ecosystem (RIE) programme addresses today’s challenges with future technologies in a collaborative and therefore promising way.

Fostering tomorrow’s innovations

Siemens for Startups is all about collaboration. By aligning our visions and efforts, we can deliver breakthrough solutions faster and more efficiently to customers.
With this initiative, we’re empowering startups with our software, collaborating to help transform their ideas into reality and connecting their solutions to our global marketplace to help them scale.

Transparent gateway

In order to facilitate the unobvious or unused solutions to upcoming challenges, we need to find ways of identifying and facilitating innovation from all possible sources. Two gateways provide access to the Siemens Supplier Innovation world.The Siemens Supplier Innovation Plattform is a virtual exhibition which is providing an interface for new connections to suppliers of today and the future. It offers access to all companies to actively shape Siemens’ next product generation in concrete Innovation Fields by introducing themselves as a potential supplier with their innovative product proposals.