Successful commitment to transfer

Steinbeis financial results 2012

“Continuing success” summarizes succinctly the message presented by Prof. Dr. Michael Auer and Manfred Mattulat, board members of the Steinbeis Foundation, to the Foundation board of trustees in April. What started out 30 years ago as 16 technical consulting centers at Baden-Wuerttemberg universities of applied science subsequently laid the foundations for the “Steinbeis success model” and by 2012 had evolved into a network of 918 enterprises. Dr.-Ing. Leonhard Vilser, chairman of the board of trustees, thanked all employees in the Steinbeis Network on behalf of the whole committee for their commitment over the past year.

There were 918 enterprises in the network in 2012. These span all Steinbeis Enterprises (SEs). Depending on the specialist discipline and the focus of work, these SEs employ experts in either legally dependent Steinbeis Transfer Centers, Steinbeis Research and Innovation Centers, Steinbeis Consulting Centers, Steinbeis Transfer Institutes or companies of an independent legal nature. The Network also includes Enterprises operating under franchising arrangements or minority shareholdings. In 2012, 101 new Enterprises joined the Steinbeis Network. The majority of SEs are managed by staff at the universities, universities of applied sciences or research institutions.

With services in research and development, consulting, training and employee development, and evaluation and expert reports, Steinbeis Enterprises achieved a total turnover of 141 million euros in 2012. This success is thanks to the commitment of over 6,000 employees. The Steinbeis projects conducted in 2012 involved 1,572 employees, 752 professors and 3,697 independent contractors. 

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