Category: Eco Systems

The approach for Agriculture 4.0 is identical to that of Industry 4.0; in both cases the aim is to intelligently connecting production processes and control them based on real society, customer, and market interests. Under the title “The role of IP in ...

The classical business model in the lighting industry was for a long time to sell LED lights and other luminants at a retailer. This has changed with the development of new business models, where products are leased but bought. The new type of busines ...

Digital transformation is permeating more and more Eco-Systems with a dramatic speed and completeness. But it is not only the permeation – digital transformation is also a booster for meshing the horizontal and vertical integration of complementary Ec ...

The level of dependency on China and Europe regarding 5G has now really been realized by the top of the American government. It is like the Sputnik crisis in 1957. The Russians, who were considered backward, were the first to launch a satellite into s ...

“Competitors become partners ”, that is the title of a recent study by McKinsey & Company. The background is a phenomenon that can be observed in more and more business eco-systems. The digital transformation of eco-systems. Is digitization ...

Wilo is the digital pioneer in the pump industry for building technology, water management and industry applications. On the 24th / 25th January, Siemens Innovation & Digitalization Labs in Munich hosted an IP design Innathon with over 20 Wilo emp ...

In the last year 77% of all patent applications for the IOTA protocol were published. IOTA is a reference software to enable secure communication and payment between two machines in the Internet of Things – IoT. If machines and communicating devices c ...

RainTunes is designed to create a holistic showering experience. It is focusing on the individual needs of human beings and its mood. Hansgrohe developed the product with experts from different fields to create digital showering scenarios which are ba ...

Schattdecor is able to print a watermark which is invisible to the naked eye on furniture decor. Only a mobile phone camera with a special app can make the trademark protected sign visible. On this path to the digitalization of furniture decors, compl ...

The trend towards digitalization is spreading at high speed and with enormous reach. There is currently no product to be identified that cannot be digitized accordingly. The EcoSystem Smart Farming is a typical example where the networking of agricult ...