- Future Energy Systems Campus established
- Framework agreement between Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and Siemens
- Focus on development of sustainable, affordable and reliable energy systems
- Siemens to invest eight-figure euro amount over three years
In line with its new company strategy, Siemens is reorienting its research activities toward the innovation fields of electrification, automation and digitalization in order to further strengthen its leading technology position in these areas. Siemens is the first company to form a research alliance with leading universities and institutions in this connection – an alliance that aims to combine outstanding expertise with a new, all-inclusive approach and make possible wide-ranging innovations in processes and systems.
Siemens’ innovative strength continues unabated: The company currently owns over 56,000 patents — 1,000 more than in fiscal year 2008. Siemens applied for around 4,200 patents in fiscal year 2009, the result of approximately 7,700 inventions reported worldwide by the company’s 32,500 researchers and developers — which is equivalent of 35 inventions per day of work. At a ceremony in Munich on November 23, Siemens CEO Peter Löscher honored 13 of the company’s most outstanding inventors. The award-winning research ranges from an infrared camera system that makes it possible to look into the white-hot interiors of gas turbines, to environmentally friendly “green ship” technology and a new 3D X-ray diagnostic system for detecting cancer. Altogether the 13 inventors hold about 1,000 individual patents.