In July 2019, the SprinD founding commission chaired by Dietmar Harhoff issued recommendations for the new German Agency for Disruptive Innovation. Based on these recommendations, the German Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek, the German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier together with the SprinD founding director Rafael Laguna de la Vera have announced their decision on the future location of the agency.
SprinD will have its seat and head office in Leipzig and will be founded as a GmbH (Ltd).
SprinD 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.
More on the Commission for the Establishment of SprinD here.
