The Strategic Partnership
The strategic Partnership in Blogs:
Blog comments on recent activities of the strategic partnership available at:
Fraunhofer IAO Blog
Quick Survey on Service Productivity
The Innovation Office designed a short survey on the topic of service productivity that has been conducted in autumn 2011. The results of the survey are available for download here.

XXI. RESER Conference “Productivity of Services NextGen – Beyond Output / Input«
On September 7th – 10th, 2011 the XXI. international RESER conference with the title »Productivity of Services NextGen – Beyond Output / Input« took place at the Handelskammer zu Hamburg in close cooperation with the strategic partnership »Productivity of Services«.
Poster from the booth of the strategic partnership: Poster_Booth.
Twitterfeed: Service Productivity means to me…
Spokesmen of the strategic partnership are:
Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser,
CTO AGT International and CEO AGT Germany
Prof. Dr. Dieter Spath,
Head of Institute Fraunhofer IAO
Working structure of the Strategic Partnership »Productivity of Services«
The Strategic Partnership »Productivity of Services«…
… is a close cooperation between economy, research and politics organised as a public-private-partnership.
… pursues a comprehensive cross linking of issues concerning service productivity with key issues of innovation management for services, as well as an advancement of the research policy centered discussion on the productivity of services.
… aims to enhance the entire research and development sector (R&D) of productivity of services.
Objectives of the Strategic Partnership:
- a structured process going along with the funding priority “Productivity of Services” (including connecting the individual research projects) giving impetus for the enhancement of the research program “Innovation with Services” of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF),
- networking with national, European and international activities of service science and innovation policy,
- increasing public awareness for the issue of service productivity,
verification of the analytic pre-conditions and strengthening the work on indicators and statistics, - extensive knowledge transfer between research and economy,
- derivation of R&D and operational recommendations for stakeholders (enterprises, educational institutions, politics, science, others*) in form of productivity guidelines.
* special interest groups, transfer organisation


