Innovation Lab - Thinking works

Shareholders

InnovationLab GmbH is owned by science and business in equal part. The University of Heidelberg, with 40%, and the University of Mannheim, with 10%, hold half of the shares, while the other half is held by the companies BASF SE, Merck KGaA, Freudenberg & Co., Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Roche Diagnostics GmbH and SAP AG, each with 8.33% of the shares.

Shareholders

Board

iL has a Board which acts as a consulting team for the management, represents the interests of the shareholders and is made up of experienced leaders from academia and industry. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel (Vice Chancellor of the University of Heidelberg), Günter Fichtner (former managing director of Freudenberg IT) and Prof. Dr. Claus E. Heinrich (former member of the executive board of SAP AG) are members of the Board.

Board

Academic Council

In addition, an Academic Council, made up of representatives of the shareholders involved in research, was established to set the course of the content and to define the joint research agenda.

Academic Council

Business Areas

The activities of iL are divided into four business areas. In the area of applied research, the partners work together on specific projects, initially focused on the Organic Electronics area of research. In the business area Transfer and Incubator, inventions which are not commercialized by the partners are to be subjected to marketing in the form of a virtual company. To ensure that enough well-qualified researchers are available in the next generation, attractive teaching structures are created together with the partners from universities in the Promotion of Young Researchers area. The main role of the Services business area is the management of the Forum Organic Electronics cluster. The cluster's activities are steered here with a view to the shared objectives.

Business Areas