Agency for leap innovation

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Agency for leap innovation

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legal form GmbH
founding Fall 2019
Seat Leipzig , SaxonySaxonySaxony 
management Rafael Laguna de la Vera , Founding Director
Number of employees planned 35–50 (headquarters)
sales 100 million euros
Branch Leap innovation
Website sprind.org

The Agency for Leap Innovation is a federal agency that aims to promote disruptive technologies . Research ideas that have the potential for leap innovation are to be discovered and further developed. The federal government will be a partner. The agency works on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy . The American research agency Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is considered a model .

There are various abbreviations for the agency: SPRIN-D and SPRIND .

The agency is initially planned to run for ten years. The budget for this is around one billion euros. Ten members from science, business, ministries and politics should be represented on the Supervisory Board. Rafael Laguna de la Vera was appointed by the federal government in July 2019 as the founding director of the agency .

history

In August 2018, the federal government decided to set up an agency for leap innovations. A founding commission was appointed in March 2019. In October 2019, the notarial certification of the agency's founding took place in the New City Hall in Leipzig and the agency moved into its business premises.

Funding projects

  • "A square millimeter of the future: the analog computer on a chip" by Bernd Ulmann .
  • "A European super cloud: IT infrastructure for the 3rd millennium" by Kurt Garloff
  • "A macro solution for the microplastic problem" by Roland Damann

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Leipzig becomes the seat of the agency for jump innovations. In: bmwi.de. September 18, 2019, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Rafael Laguna de la Vera is to become the founding director of the agency for jump innovations. In: bmwi.de. July 17, 2019, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Agency for leap innovations - "In order to be successful, we have to dare to fail". In: deutschlandfunk.de. October 21, 2019, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Friedhelm Greis: Agency for jump innovations comes to Leipzig. In: golem.de . September 18, 2019, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ According to website http://sprind.org
  6. ↑ According to the Twitter channel https://twitter.com/sprind
  7. ↑ a b Agency for jump innovations moves into business premises. In: leipzig.de. October 10, 2019, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  8. ↑ BMBF Internet editorial office: Leipzig becomes the seat of the Agency for Jump Innovations - BMBF. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  9. ^ Wim Orth: founding commission for SprinD appointed. In: authorities mirror. Pro-Press Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, March 12, 2019, accessed on February 27, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Jan-Martin Wiarda: The jump master. In: Jan-Martin Wiarda (blog). February 27, 2020, accessed February 27, 2020 .