Added value

FOR MEMBERS.

Together, our members realize innovations faster thanks to efficient collaboration in an excellent ecosystem.

Added value for our partners

A unique platform

Research, development & innovation under one roof

The ARENA2036 building creates the ideal environment for new ideas. The open store floor enables unrestricted co-working between corporations, start-ups, SMEs and academia and offers shared, neutral ground on the campus of the University of Stuttgart.

Cooperation in an excellent ecosystem

Utilization of synergies at the interface between research and practice

Our network of globally established members develops its concentrated innovative strength thanks to cooperation at eye level. The exchange of knowledge between scientists and experts from industry promotes the transfer of applied basic research into industrial practice.

Efficient collaboration

Faster from the idea to the project

Our research campus promotes efficient collaboration thanks to unrestricted communication and the co-location of diverse expertise. Open project architectures offer the opportunity to build on and expand existing projects. In a protected space without barriers, but not without boundaries - the IP of our members is secure.

Innovation – powered by ARENA2036

Extensive support for our members

The goals of our members, our support: ARENA2036 Management supports goals, projects and cooperation within ARENA2036. Members benefit from the synergies and services that ARENA2036 Management identifies and implements.

Technological lead through innovation

Realizing groundbreaking innovations on site

At ARENA2036, pioneering innovations are implemented as part of an extensive ecosystem. Together with our members, we tap into disruption potential in order to realize innovations with the highest relevance. Close supervision of research projects and our wide-ranging expertise form the basis for this.

Our

Members

Our members are using the research campus for innovations of the future. They develop and shape the technological change.

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What Our

Members Say

"ARENA2036 gives us the opportunity for successful collaboration with a variety of different companies – from start-ups to large corporations. This enables us to quickly develop and implement forward-looking and relevant use cases with potential partners and users. In addition, the Arena gives us an extended insight into future trends in automotive production and allows us to access groundbreaking key technologies at an early stage."

Dr. Thomas Meißner & Dr. Roland Schaefer

Head of Project and Consortia Management & Vice President Innovation

Balluff GmbH

"For us at Nokia, it is critical to work jointly with industry partners, universities and research institutes to make Industry 4.0 a reality. Our contribution is focused on connectivity: private wireless networks with 5G for industrial use cases and optical broadband connection with extremely low latencies."

Johannes Koppenborg

Research & Business Development Manager

Nokia Enterprise

"ARENA2036 is a unique hot spot of research, industry and entrepreneurship. A wide variety of disciplines, cultures and experiences come together creatively here, which always leads to exciting insights. I am therefore particularly pleased that our Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Science has the opportunity to actively shape and contribute to this."

Prof. Dr. Alexander Brem

Head of Institute

Universität Stuttgart

Results of our ecosystem

Already Realized

Innovations

A number of exciting projects have already been implemented on the ARENA2036 research campus - a small insight into the concentrated innovation potential of our members:

Intelligent Floor

The intelligent floor is an innovative solution for the factory of the future. It consists of a modular floor tile system whose tiles have sensory and actuator capabilities and are therefore able to control machines that interact with them, for example. Its data interfaces complete the infrastructure platform. These capabilities can be used for a variety of industrial applications, such as positioning and navigation, safety, data acquisition or energy transmission.

Bosch Rexroth developed and tested the intelligent floor for the first time at the ARENA2036 research campus. Today, it is an important platform for further research and development projects on the campus. One example is the "ANTS 4.0" project, in which the dynamic route planning of ants was transferred to the driverless transport vehicle SCOOTY and the intelligent floor. In future, this will enable means of transportation to find their way around factories without programming and re-route them based on events.

The intelligent floor is an example of how an individual project can be turned into a platform and thus a basis for further projects. In addition to the practical development of technologies and products, the project structure also allows new ways of working to be tested. The project team working on the intelligent floor is constantly developing it further and allowing other teams to test their new products directly in the logistics or production infrastructure. In particular, the transition from sequential development work to parallelized work in research and development is being tested and the networking of companies and research institutions is being promoted.

Transformation hub for the wire harness

The LS transformation hub acts as an interface between scientific research and practical applicability in the wiring harness industry, which is responsible for the electrical connections in vehicles. This industry is undergoing massive changes due to technological developments and higher requirements in areas such as electromobility, data volumes, safety and sustainability.

The hub uses an end-to-end transfer model to translate research results into easily understandable and applicable solutions for companies. The aim is to transfer valuable research results to industry and thus into practice, with feedback channels also reflecting industry requirements back to science.

Through direct contact and dialog with companies, the hub helps to identify specific use cases and implementation options, promotes lighthouse projects and supports far-reaching transformation processes. This approach aims to strengthen the industry's responsiveness and innovative strength in a time of disruptive change and ensure that technological developments and sustainability practices are effectively integrated.

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A Member Now

ARENA2036 is open to everyone. If you would like to become a member, you should bring impulses from your own research and want to actively promote it. For more information, please contact Peter Froeschle & Georg Schnauffer via e-mail.