NanOp- Management Support

FRAUNHOFER-MANAGEMENT-GESELLSCHAFT (FhM), München Contact person: Dr. M. Grünewald

FhM is a legally independent affiliated company of the Fraunhofer Society (FhG), which is the largest organisation for applied research and innovation in Germany. As a speciality, Fraunhofer Management was designed as a consulting subsidiary, not as an additional research institute of the Fraunhofer network. FhG is acting world-wide with more than 8.000 employees in more than 50institutions and covers a wide range of key technology fields. As the FhGis one of the founders of the European Association of Contract ResearchOrganisations (EACRO), FhM is further able to draw on all available Europeanexperience in the field of R&D.
Founded in 1990, FhM soon started to focus its activities on formingan integral concept of consulting in the fields of innovation and technologypolicy and management. The experts of FhM combine scientific and industrialknow-how. Teams of economists, scientists, lawyers, sociologists, managementand financial experts, computer specialists and other highly specialisedexperts assure an integral consulting concept. Together with an externalpool of experts FhM is able to guarantee high competence in different economicand technological contexts. FhM often acts as Management Agent in complexprojects, co-ordinating highly specialised (national as well as international)experts, organising events and managing the project’s budget activities.Special experience is provided e.g. in economics, science and technology,innovation policy and management, in scientific and technical fields, realisationof specified R&D activities, institution building and evaluation, inorganisational and techno-economic studies as well as with technology transfermatters and marketing of R&D results.

FhM started its business with services for innovative R&D institutes: technical services and administrational assistance. In the meantime, thecompany has built up high competence in technology evaluation and assessment,founding and restructuring of R&D institutes and innovation centres,building  and construction management for R&D infrastructure,planning and realisation of technology centres as well as financial managementand co-operation of R&D institutes with industry. Innovative methods,case oriented solutions and the know-how and support of more than 50 appliedR&D institutes in Germany, USA and Asia make FhM an interesting partnerfor problem solving for innovation either as direct consultant of institutionsor as policy consultant in questions of infrastructure.
Currently the FhM is the coordinating partner and project manager ofa large “BMBF-Leitprojekt”.