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08/01/2017

Artificial Intelligence Start-ups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (AI)

This article is intended for everyone interested to learn more about artificial intelligence start-ups, their business cases and application fields. The topic is very exiting for me considering the breadth of application fields, the business impact, the security implications and the impact on humans/society (see singularity).

The artificial intelligence technology has wide fields of application, different sub-fields, related topics and overlaps quite a lot. Examples therefore are machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning, human-machine interactions, computer vision, image recognition, gesture control, personal assistants, bots, content recognition and many more.

The following list showcases start-ups using artificial intelligence (or stating to use), that are based or headquartered in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the German-speaking countries) as of 12/2016 (Download: Excel, PDF, Infografic). Get in touch for the status quo.
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02/12/2016

Startups und der Mittelstand: Strohfeuer oder guter Ansatz zur Digitalisierung und zum Innovationsmanagement?

Am 20.06.2016 wurde das Thema „Start-ups: Strohfeuer oder nachhaltiger Schwung für die digitale Wirtschaft?“ im Rahmen des Formats Digital Talk der IHK Köln diskutiert. Diese Frage erkundet Richard Gutjahr mit Prof. Tobias Kollmann, Thomas Bachem (CODE.university), Kanika Kaltenberg (Zuckerzahn) und Christoph Baier (Ambi-Vation) beim Digital Talk 06 von Digital Cologne. Zu Beginn klärt Prof. Tobias Kollmann (der digitale Lehrmeister) die Zuhörer über die Bedeutung von Startups auf, die zum zukünftigen Mittelstand erwachsen.

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02/12/2016

Kooperationsformen zwischen Startups und etablierten Unternehmen

Dieser Artikel ist am 21.01.2016 auch auf deutsche-startups.de erschienen.

Wie Startups und etablierte Unternehmen zusammenarbeiten können und auf welche Schritte besonders geachtet werden sollte

Die Entwicklung von Innovationen, ist der Punkt an welchem die verschiedenen Unternehmensformen wie Startups (ein Startup ist eine Organisation geschaffen für die Suche nach einem wiederholbaren und skalierbaren Geschäftsmodell) und etablierte Unternehmen vor der gleichen Herausforderung stehen. Beide müssen neue Produkte, Prozesse oder Geschäftsmodelle entwickeln. Während Startups oftmals die Chance haben “out-of-the-box” zu denken, haben innovative Unternehmen das Potential ihre bestehenden Ressourcen und ihren Kundenzugang zu nutzen. Zum Beispiel werden Startups mit einer internen Kanibalisierung konfrontiert und können daher größer denken. Diese heterogenen Stärken der beiden Unternehmensformen zeigen auf, warum eine Kooperation von beiden sehr wertvoll sein kann.

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03/01/2016

Cooperation forms between startups and established companies

How startups and established companies can collaborate and which steps to pay attention to

Developing innovations is the point where the heterogeneous company forms like startups (is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model) and established companies face the same problem. Both have to take care to develop new products, processes or business models. While startups often have the chance to think more out of the box, innovative companies have the potential to use their existing resources and customer access. For example, startups do not face internal cannibalization and therefore can think bigger. These heterogeneous strengths of both company forms illustrate why a collaboration of both company forms can be very valuable.

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03/01/2016

How do Start-ups Recognize the Value of External Knowledge and Acquire it? A Study on Absorptive Capacity in B2B Start-ups

This thesis has been created in order to understand how startups learn from external knowledge. In theory this benefits research on absorptive capacity while in practice this helps pracitioneer to validate their startup and find product-market-fit.

The following charts give you a very short overview of the thesis. The full thesis can be downloaded here. Please get back to me with any questions and feedback.

Theory
The structure of the theoretical framework follows the following agenda. It starts with the special characteristics of startups, followed by an in depth analysis of the absorptive capacity concept in the context of startups. The research is using the research from Todorova & Durisin (2007) and his model of absorptive capacity.

Theoretical framework absorptive capacity of B2B startups

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