Steinbeis Transfer Center Economy, Start-up, Commune

• Consulting and coaching
• Assessments
• Funding opportunities
• Surveys
• Coaching

• Planning and implementation of municipal economic development strategies
  • Analysis of location potential, outlooks, and challenges
  • Location loyalty and attracting companies to new locations
  • Cooperative and systematic determination of strategies and measures aimed at supporting municipal economic development
  • Quantitative and qualitative surveys of local economic stakeholders
  • Systematic empirical identification of areas of action and economic development options
  • The setting up and maintenance of traditional and innovative dialog events aimed at promoting ongoing exchange between business, local authorities, and citizens (e.g. consultation sessions, entrepreneur breakfasts, talks, workshops, digital participation portals (e.g. discuto))
• Press and public relations
  • Management of conventional and virtual events
  • Press articles for the print media
  • Planning and running of virtual/digital PR campaigns, esp. in social media
  • Search engine optimization (SEO)
  • Innovative regional marketing
• Consulting and coaching of established companies, startups, and people interested in founding a company
  • Technology consulting
  • Funding advice
  • Expert recruitment, e.g. in the area of digital technology and investment
  • Corporate financing during all phases of the company life cycle
• Location-based pooling of value-added processes and the expansion of business infrastructure
  • Promotion and support of infrastructure development and expansion
  • Inter- and intra-community networking between different stakeholders
  • Intra-community dovetailing of business, administration, and citizens
  • Initiation, support, and moderation of partnerships between companies and different collaboration partners (e.g. universities, research bodies, institutions, business clusters, network organizations)

• Business development
• Business start-up campaigns

• Initial contact for founders / companies
• Short consulting / coaching for founders / companies
• Special consulting
  • Placement of internal / external experts
  • Financing of expert know-how

• Of lecture events
• Of start-up days
• Of entrepreneur meetings
• Of company surveys

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• Opposites attract (Transfer 1/2025)
  Economic development can be delivered either by a local government agency or an external service provider – both models have their advantages.
• Two years, one economic zone and no limits – EGON gathers momentum (Transfer 2/2024)
  The Steinbeis experts in Villingen-Schwenningen are coordinating an economic development project for three municipalities in the black forest
• Three Communities, One Partner, One Project: EGON (Transfer 1/2023)
  Three counties join forces with Steinbeis to promote economic development together
• “Networks are about trust” (Transfer 1/2022)
  An interview with Steinbeis Entrepreneur Wolfgang Müller