Innovation, Ecosystems & Platforms 

Friedrich Fries Henrich, CIRCULANIA

A journey towards a marketplace

“Choose one focus for your marketplace but keep a big vision, that seems so foolish that you think it is embarrassing.”

Leo Michellier & Paul Beguerie, ORGANIX

Combining waste management and the production of renewable and local energy

“The market of biogas is growing quickly in France so we wanted to structure the market and build a tool who would be relevant both for producers and the increasing number of biogas plants in need to source more waste”.

Kathrin Gunther, PEXCITE

How to build a sustainable packaging platform

“Either you are big enough to challenge building a new solution on your own or you need to bundle forces”

Frank Mattes, LEAN SCALEUP

Corporate Startups – How to build a startup as a corporate

“At the end of the day, innovation is a people game”

Adrien Chaltiel, ELDORADO

 The importance of legitimacy

“The idea was how to build a brand in 3 years, being perceived as a 10 years old company.”

Denis Tischler, WIND-TURBINE

Using offline marketing to scale a digital platform

“When you are building a platform in an industry which is not really digitalised, you need to reach people physically by doing lots of offline marketing.”

Alessandro Pistillo, BASF

Make the chemical industry ready for sustainable platformization

“Boosting scale, scope and speed should be the criteria which help to identify the right partners to build the ecosystems.”