GREINER INNOVENTURES
Radical innovation requires agility and courage. Upcoming trends, new technologies and promising business models open up unprecedented opportunities.
However, this also means that new competitors are emerging. To survive in the long run, Greiner has to adapt to succeed. Because only the fittest survive.
For more than 150 years, Greiner is one of the world’s leading suppliers of plastics and foam solutions. So that it stays that way, Greiner Innoventures, the group’s innovation center, has developed the organizational framework for a holistic innovation strategy and has defined the stages from a very fuzzy front end to integration into the group.
THE GREINER OPPORTUNITY FUNNEL
This is the framework deployed by Greiner Innoventures to assess future trends, understand waves of change, and to capture the pearls in a blurred ocean of information and players.
Opportunities
StrongARM Tech- Risk Management ⁄ Subscription-based reusable chocolate ⁄ Image recognition technology ⁄ Squid I the New Eco-Friedly Plastic ⁄ Diagnost Artificial robot skin protects workers ⁄ Circular economy solution for black plastic ⁄ Augmented Reality and NFC ⁄ Alexa-personalize my packaging ⁄ DFree-Wearable for Incontinence ⁄ Shampoo straight out of the showerhead ⁄ Smart vial kit ⁄ Biodegradable plastic ⁄ OLED technology ⁄ Online database of materials ⁄ W0rld´s first battery free hearing aid ⁄ Online database materials ⁄ Integrated display ⁄ Bottels made of recyclable bioplastics ⁄ Filter microplastic ⁄ The Bedjet 3 ⁄ On-the-go wine format ⁄ Smart bra improves women´s health ⁄ Machine learning for cobots
1_OPPORTUNITIES
From uncharted territory to valuable strategic decisions – anticipating the future starts, where we turn a fuzzy world of weak signals into relevant clusters of technological, social, economic, and ecological trends.
2_VALIDATION
Welcome to our fact-finding mission: Collected, clustered, and ranked – now its time to validate. Here we create exclusive insights on opportunities, challenges, latest developments, and more of our 30 most significant trends and technologies.
3_POTENTIAL ANALYSIS
Ready for a deep dive! We want to create a solid basis for our recommendations, which is why we perform a thoroughly research on the top-ranked technologies. We identify leading research institutes, market players, barriers to adoption – in short, reliable facts & figures.
4_GROUP RESEARCH
Faster product cycles with additive manufacturing? Artificial Intelligence knows it better? Thin and flexible electronics for smart products? We did the reading, now its time for hands-on research in our Greiner divisions.
5_INNOVENTURES
We are easily quickly occupied with our daily business and continuous improvement. But it’s our job to think outside the box! This is why we created the Greiner Incubator to offer the framework for visionary and creative approaches to opportunities outside of our core business.
THE TEAM
Meet the Greiner Innoventures Team
We are a colourful mix of expierences, cultures and professional backgrounds
but we have something in common: we don´t like things as they´ve always been
Hannes Möseneder
Maria Jose Molina Bravo
Philipp Kranewitter
Stefanie Painsith
THE NEWSROOM
Stay informed about Greiner Innoventures
THE GREINER FUTURE HUNTERS
The Future Hunters forms an internal network of experts with the intention
– Working together for the future of Greiner
ABOUT...
The Greiner Future Hunters Network (GFHN) is an exclusive worldwide network of Greiner employees who defined themselves as innovators, future thinkers and early adopters. More than 100 future hunters around the world work with us in the realms of science and technology, business, innovation, arts, design and culture to find out indications of change or the so-called weak signals.
With our network, we collect and evaluate a bright range of signals, emerging trends, technologies, concepts and business models. This broad set of information allow us to better understand drivers of change and potential disruptive developments from a global perspective.
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