innovation | A big hall, barrier tape, metal fencing. Pallets are stacked in front of the stage to make a tiered platform, a kind of arena. It’s the sort of place you might expect to find a hip start-up in Berlin, but this arena is in Essen, at the headquarters of thyssenkrupp. And today it’s the scene of a battle between eight teams in the #tkGarage, thyssenkrupp’s in-house think-tank. Sarah-Kristin Klein and Jakob Barzel are two of the 45 innovators here to compete for big money: “We need 80,000 euros from the investors today,” says Sarah.

Digitization and Industry 4.0 | innovation | #hack4tk 2017 - or also: 70 designers, developers and software specialists who work on innovative solutions.

innovation | thyssenkrupp honored for its start-up accelerator

Engagement | innovation | Identifying challenges and shaping the future – that’s a mission not just for us as a company but also for more than 12,000 young scientists each year in Europe’s biggest contest for young people. At this year’s regional heat of the Jugend forscht competition in Dortmund, the youngsters presented work with strong similarities to our own.

innovation | And if the three founders of startup company logarithmo have anything to do with it, there’ll soon also be an app for complex mathematical algorithms. At least that’s the idea they presented to thyssenkrupp CEO Hiesinger at a meeting in the thyssenkrupp Quarter.

innovation | Read how cross-industry collaboration from two global companies brought a game-changing IoT solution from the drawing board to volume production.