Based in Bremen, Germany, SME Spring Techno was founded in 2003 to develop solutions and applications for stock market analysis. Although this remains the SME’s core business, they have become increasingly involved in collaborative R&D projects which have allowed them to use their know-how, advance the learning of the company and innovate in different domains. A key example of this successful development has been the application of algorithms used for the stock market to the healthcare sector via a proprietary software for monitoring the gait of elderly or infirm people at risk of falling. As this project progresses slowly towards the commercialization phase, it has been extended to R&D in other medical applications for use in hospitals. It is therefore a company with multiple experience of using OI as their R&D enabler and source of differentiation.
Open innovation for SME's
