The European Union declared 2009 to be the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. The aim is to highlight the extraordinary importance of intellectual productivity for Europe’s future viability.

Germany can only retain and expand its economic strength if it ensures that ideas are generated and result in innovations. This is why the German government has launched the Land of Ideas (http://www.land-der-ideen.de/) initiative, which gives innovation projects from various areas a platform to be showcased.

“We owe progress to people who have either asked ‘why?’ or ‘why not?’.”

Robert Lembke

To provide new knowledge, new ideas have to be generated and there must be scope for creativity. To this end our innovation center was founded: to make the most of being able to try things out that may be unfamiliar or to simply start again, but this time applying different angles.

INVENSITY independently works on developing practice-oriented innovations. In its innovation center - partly in cooperation with universities, institutions and associations - topics that aid technological advancement are worked on as part of innovation projects. INVENSITY systematizes the knowledge generated in projects using an internal knowledge management system. The newly-gained expertise can then, thanks to INVENSITY’s cross-sector organization, be made available to companies from various industries within the framework of client projects.