The project

“The ”Data­L­ab West­Sax” project is a mobile, hybrid real-world lab­o­ra­to­ry for dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion. “Data­L­ab West­Sax” is designed to help lever­age the pre­vi­ous­ly untapped poten­tial of data for val­ue cre­ation pur­pos­es. Prof. Heiko Gebauer’s team from the Fraun­hofer Cen­ter for Inter­na­tion­al Man­age­ment and Knowl­edge Econ­o­my (IMW) and Prof. Christoph Laro­que’s team at the West Sax­on Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences Zwick­au will receive a total of 1.5 mil­lion euros in finan­cial sup­port. Pri­vate and pub­lic com­pa­nies in the West Sax­ony region are to take advan­tage of the many oppor­tu­ni­ties offered by data-dri­ven tech­nolo­gies such as the Inter­net of Things (IoT), arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) and machine learn­ing (ML). New val­ue cre­ation poten­tial is to be iden­ti­fied through data pro­cess­ing and analy­sis. Dur­ing the project, com­pa­nies in west­ern Sax­ony will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to gain diverse and exten­sive knowl­edge about data-based val­ue cre­ation. Experts from the real-world lab­o­ra­to­ry will help them to inte­grate the expe­ri­ence gained into their busi­ness prac­tice” (Source: Media infor­ma­tion 129 / 2021, Sax­on State Min­istry for Region­al Devel­op­ment, Decem­ber 28, 2021).

Imple­men­ta­tion period

01.01.2022 — 31.12.2024

(cost-neu­tral exten­sion by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences Zwick­au until 30.04.2025)

Sup­port

This mea­sure was co-financed with tax funds on the basis of the bud­get approved by the Sax­on state parliament.

The Sax­on State Min­istry for Infra­struc­ture and Region­al Devel­op­ment (SMIL) sup­port­ed the project as part of the simul⁺InnovationsHub.