Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (Fraunhofer IAO) belongs to the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe’s largest application-oriented research institution with 69 institutes and research units and 24,500 employees. About ninety percent of Fraunhofer’s 2.1 billion-euro annual research budget comes from contract research, mostly for industry and publicly financed research projects. The core expertise of Fraunhofer IAO is organisational structures and technologies. It analyses mega trends such as digitalisation, urbanisation, future mobility and demographic change, and consults a wide range of clients. 

Stuttgart as a city, but especially the automotive industry in the region will face significant structural transformation along the entire value-chain. Fraunhofer IAO has specialised research units for Mobility and Urban Systems Engineering (MUSE), Service and Human Resources Management, and Corporate Development and Work Design. In summer 2016, it published the study “Success with electric mobility […]”. Fraunhofer IAO offers expertise in trends directly and indirectly affecting the automotive industry. Using their analyses and projection, they provide a view into future mobility and cities and advise on the transformation of automotive manufacturing, its business models and corporate organisational structures.

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• Date of publication: March 2017