The Digital Hub Logistics convinces with its maker mentality. We accompany you from the initial idea to market launch.  Today logistics stands for intelligent networking, and is therefore predestined to advance the digitalization of industry, the retail trade, and production. Start-ins – special digital teams or units involved with innovations outside the day-to-day business and beyond the usual product development process – are the best way to drive the development of digital projects, products, and services, especially in companies whose assets are still primarily tangible. Our Start-in Factory supports start-ins all the way from inspiration to scale-up – whether you want to use your product internally, offer it on the market, or found a new company.

Dortmund and the Ruhr metropolitan area are among the most important logistics locations in Germany and are renowned as innovation hubs for logistics in Europe. Scientific institutions like Fraunhofer IML, Fraunhofer ISST and TU Dortmund University with their specialist chairs and industry-related lead-projects have bundled competencies in the areas of logistics and digitization in recent years and have established new forms of cooperation between business and science. Digital Hub Logistics now closes the gap in the innovation chain between pre-competition research and launching product ideas onto the market.