Baden Württemberg: Connected e.V.
Overview
About us
Baden-Württemberg: Connected represents a strong regional community. Baden-Württemberg is one of the economically strongest regions in Germany and Europe. A network of excellent research institutions and powerful industrial clusters are the base of the region's global competitiveness.
bwcon is the leading business initiative for the promotion of the high-tech sectors in the region with offices in Stuttgart and Freiburg. Established in 1997, the main goal of the network organization is to foster key-technologies in order to strengthen the region's economic development. Therefore, the focus of bwcon lies on information and communication technologies (ICT) which are seen as the innovation drivers for other industrial fields, such as mobility, production, health care and energy.
Today, bwcon connects more than 600 member companies and research institutions, represented by a honorary board composed of distinguished personalities. This eco-system creates a truly unique platform for cross-sector cooperation between developers, users and investors.
Cluster composition
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618Cluster Members
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449SME's
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23Large Companies
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67Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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0Other Ecosystem Actors
Achievements
A field in which we estimate bwcon especially competitive is business development and business plan coaching for the hightech sector. With the Heidelberg Innovation Forum (www.heidelberg-innovationforum.eu) we run one of the leading investment matchmakings in Germany for several years now. With the Green Innovation and Investment Forum (www.green-inno-forum.de) we also have a taylored format for Green Tec. The bwcon Coaching Group for startups is one of the most reknown expert pools for business plan development in Baden-Württemberg.
Management team
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral Industries
Technology fields
S3 EU priority areas
Cross-sectoral industries
Key members
| Profile name | Location | |
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| SAP SE | ||
| IBM Germany | ||
| GE Power AG | ||
| Hewlett Packard Germany |
Services
Support services provided
Further information
For its members the cluster offers cross-industrial collaboration amongst start-ups, companies and research organizations within the ICT- and hightech-sector.
- Networking and matchmaking at our conferences, roundtables and seminars
- Exchange amongst experts in Special Interest Groups (SIGs) on trending topics in the ICT- and hightech-sector
- Individual support for regional, national and EU project cooperations and funding programmes
- Professional consultation on start-ups and growth by accredited specialists
- Access to substantial investors and strong financing partners
- Systematic matchmaking with outstanding talents and innovative start-ups
- Online job-portal and targeted placement of professionals
Support programmes
EU Programmes
Name & description
Selection:
- Go Cluster! - German national support programme for business development of cluster organizations
- Mittelstand digital - German national support programme for innovation in SMEs
Project name
Selection:
- Cloud Socket (funded in Horizon2020, www.cloudsocket.eu): Cloud Socket aims to put forth the idea of a “hybrid process” modelling framework applying well-known techniques for semantic, rule-based inference, meta modelling and knowledge management techniques to bridge the gap between business needs and the use and exploitation of Cloud resources and components.
- FI Business (funded in FP7, www-fiware-business.eu): FI Business supports startups and SMEs that have been selected by one of the sixteen FIWARE accelerators in preparing their go-to-market strategy as well as in raising private funding. Services comprise EU-wide training bootcamps, business recognition workshops, online webinars covering all relevant business development topics, one-on-one coaching, online pitches and the participation at high-level investment forums.
- InvestHorizion (funded in Horizon2020, www.investhorizon.eu): The InvestHorizon project aims to boost the investment awareness and readiness amongst innovative SMEs and improve the sensitization of investors and innovation intermediaries across Europe. It will address the difficulty of matching technology-based innovative companies with sufficiently specialized investors, especially at cross-border level, helping entrepreneurs to secure investment in early innovation phases.
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
Transnational cooperation
Targeted countries
Transnational support activites
International support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairsFurther information
In the context of our partnership MobiGoIn we organize focused international B2B matchings among SMEs, Start-ups and Research Institutions with a special aim at the (new) mobility sector. Such meetings take place for example in Paris or in Heidelberg (Germany).
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