Miscellaneous  |  03/12/2019

German Federal Government Installs Commission for the Establishment of a German Agency for Disruptive Innovation

German Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek and German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier appoint Dietmar Harhoff chair of the commission for the establishment of the new agency.

Commission for the establishment of the new German Agency for Disruptive Innovation. f.l.t.r. (front): Catharina van Delden, Prof. Dr. Birgitta Wolff, Dr. Nanne Diehl-von Hahn, Sabine Herold, Dr. Manja Schüle MdB, Dr. Stefan Kaufmann MdB; (back): German State Secretary Georg Schütte, Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Dr. Ingmar Hoerr, German State Secretary Christian Luft, Wolf-Dieter Lukas. Photo: BMBF / Hans-Joachim Rickel

The German Federal Government aims to foster pioneering research with a wide range of application possibilities. The new German Agency for Disruptive Innovation is to promote innovations with radically new technologies and a great potential to change the market with new products, services and value chains. Dietmar Harhoff has been appointed chair of the commission for the establishment of the new agency by the German Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek and the German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier.


Further members of the commission are: Dr. Nanne Diehl-von Hahn (Telefónica Germany), Sabine Herold (DELO Industrie Klebstoffe), Dr. Ingmar Hoerr (CureVac AG), Prof. Dr. Achim Kampker (RWTH Aachen, streetscooter GmbH), Dr. Stefan Kaufmann MdB, Andreas König (ProGlove), Rafael Laguna (Open Xchange), Alfred Möckel (Alubi Capital GmbH), Dr. Manja Schüle MdB, Catharina van Delden (innosabi GmbH), Prof. Dr. Birgitta Wolff (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main).