Fraunhofer Center for Responsible Research and Innovation CeRRI

Shaping the future
We design future scenarios and develop suitable transformation processes and innovation strategies for our customers

Digital transformation and new technologies are fundamentally changing the corporate environment: innovation cycles are accelerating, customer demands are becoming more diverse. Technological change is closely interlinked with social and cultural change. Customer requirements and societal expectations change, innovation processes become collaborative and require new actor constellations. To stay competitive, companies need new organizational forms and business models. Therefore, digital transformation can not be designed solely through technological innovations, but must involve a variety of stakeholders.

Fraunhofer CeRRI orients innovations to societal needs. We track social trends and changes and make them available for technology development and innovation at an early stage.

We equip our clients with the knowledge and the right methods to actively shape transformation according to new customer requirements as well as to prepare their employees and executives for the requirements of working environment 4.0. In collaborative innovation processes, we develop new solutions for your company. In doing so, we use our expertise in the areas of organizational and leadership culture to successfully initiate and accompany appropriate change processes.

We combine methods from the social and economic sciences with approaches from design. Our methodological portfolio ensures that we can systematically analyze the past and the present while at the same time shaping the future.

The focus topics of the business area Responsible Research and Innovation are:
Corporate culture 4.0
Diversity and innovation
Society Foresight
technology acceptance
Ideation processes and future labs
Co-design and design methods
Business Model Innovation
Network and Transfer Strategies