Collaborations and Open Innovation

Shaping the future together

Through strategic partnerships with leading universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutes, and tech incubators, we transform innovation into solutions that drive our customer’s success. Through open innovation challenges on our Siemens Innovation Ecosystem platform, we help businesses turn challenges into opportunities.

Global Reach, Local Impact
Our partnerships focus on three main regions, where we collaborate with the best:

Europe: TU Munich, TU Berlin, RWTH Aachen, KU Leuven, TU Delft, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Fraunhofer, ETH Zurich, EPFL, and more.

USA: UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Georgia Tech, CMU, Princeton, Penn State, Virginia Tech, and more.

Asia: Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Indian Institute of Science, IIT Madras, and more.

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.