Innovation Lab officially inaugurated

One year after moving into the premises in Regensburg’s TechBase and successful completion of its first projects, the Innovation Lab was officially inaugurated in October 2017.

The TechBase is located directly next to the university and the East Bavarian University of Applied Science (OTH), and offers space for start-ups, research labs and technology clusters. Reciprocal networking of these entities and the universities’ neighbouring institutions provides advantages that also benefited the company’s Innovation Lab of right from the start. Students are a vital part of the Innovation Lab. They work as interns or student trainees on practically relevant tasks or support these within the context of their dissertations.

The Innovation Lab is tasked with kick-starting innovation projects focusing on digitalisation in a very early phase of the innovation process, validating the business case, and performing preliminary studies on technical feasibility, underpinned by the use of responsively fit-for-purpose development methods with a tight customer focus. In line with the “Design Thinking” concept, the lab team consists of Krones staff and students from highly disparate specialist backgrounds. At present, the lab team comprises economists, specialists in media informatics, mechanical engineers and product designers.