INNOVATION GALA 2025

That was the Innovation Gala 2025! 
On June 5th, we celebrated the 19th edition of the Innovation Gala Institute of Innovation and Industrial Management.
Since November 2024, five interdisciplinary student teams have been working on real-world challenges from our corporate partners: Andritz, Kässbohrer, OMV, Palfinger, and TDK.
This year's Product Innovation Award went to the “Lift-Off” team, which developed a new ergonomic aerial work platform for Palfinger. A special highlight of the evening was the inspiring keynote by Professor Kalevi Ekman from Finland, followed by an insightful panel discussion with Christian Ramsauer, Kalevi Ekman, and Mario Fallast.

Further information on the challenges can be found here.

INNOVATION GALA 2024

Committed, interdisciplinary students have faced the challenges of our corporate partners Andritz, Astotec, OMV, Palfinger and Payer. The results were presented at our Innovation Gala. They gave exciting insights!

Further information on the challenges can be found here.

You can find the highlights here:

INNOVATION GALA 2023

On June 7, 2023, student teams from industry partners Andritz, AVL, Fronius, Palfinger and TDK presented the results of their Product Innovation Projects. In addition, the highlights of past Makerthons and the SpInnovation Summer Cycle were also presented. As a special highlight of the event, we welcomed Prof. Johann Füller from the Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Innsbruck, who gave an exciting keynote lecture on "How AI-revolutionizes Innovation Management". The event ended on a relaxed note with a spritzer stand, which was jointly organized by IIM, the Racing Team and the Aerospace Team.

You can see the highlights here:

INNOVATION GALA 2022

6 student teams presented their results they developed within the PRODUCT INNOVATION project with our industry partners Astotec, AVL, ÖBB TS, OMV, Palfinger and Payer on June, 2nd in the Schumpeter Labor for Innovation.

In addition, we want to highlight the
KEYNOTE by HARVARD PROFESSOR STEFAN THOMKE,
as well as the subsequent panel discussion on the topic of "Experimentation".

Find the stream here!