Test innovation risk-free: In the dynamic world of digitalization, our “Test before Invest” services offer companies the opportunity to experiment with innovative technologies and digital solutions before making major investments.
- Individual Needs Analysis: We analyze your requirements and identify the technologies and solutions that could be most relevant for your company.
- Test Environment: Take advantage of our state-of-the-art infrastructure to test new digital technologies risk-free.
- Technical Expertise: Our experts support you every step of the way to ensure that the tested solutions align with your business requirements.
- Cost Efficiency: Minimize risks and costs by ensuring that the solution provides clear added value before implementation.
Our team can support you with a service package worth up to €60,000 (price list). In a non-binding initial consultation, we will identify the perfect service from our portfolio to help your organization take the next steps toward digitalization!
Workshops and Workshops Series
Based on your needs, this service offers flexible workshops and workshop series, including ideation workshops, AI workshops, data strategy workshops, design thinking workshops, business model innovation workshops, and requirements workshops. Each workshop is tailored to your specific challenges.
Lead User and Innovation Panel Acceptance
This service supports early-stage valiation of AI-based solutions through structured feedback and testing with selected end users. User acceptance, usability, and perceived value are analyzed prior to full-scale development providing you with concrete insights for concept refinement and reducing risks.
AI Technology Scouting
This multi-day service provides systematic identification and evaluation of emerging AI technologies – including off-the-shelf tools, relevant models, and trends. The insights support strategic decision-making.
AI Agent Prototyping
Ideas and concepts for AI agents are validated through feasibility analysis, value assessment, and rapid prototyping. Empirical testing of assumptions supports evidence-based decisions for real-world deployment helping you reduce uncertainty and investment risk before full-scale development.
Data Management, Test and Analysis
AI-driven innovation starts with the right data. This service enables structured data acquisition, testing, and analysis for tourism, wellness, and sports. Experts evaluate whether planned AI initiatives are feasible with the available data before scaling, which supports informed decision-making and strategic project planning.
IoT/AI Product Prototyping
This service enables you to prototype and evaluate IoT- and AI-based solutions before committing to full-scale development. Through rapid development, testing, and expert guidance, feasibility, user fit, and market potential are assessed.
Data Space Concepts and Prototyping
This service covers the design, implementation, and governance of secure, standards-based data ecosystems that support controlled data sharing, AI-readiness, and cross-organizational collaboration. From concept to prototype, organizations are guided through every step.
Smart Visitor & Mobility Analytics Lab
This service provides a modular experimentation facility with tailored sensor setup, data acquisition, and analysis for visitor and user flows in real-world environments. Combining big data, digital nudging, and prototyping, it supports tourism, sport, and wellness applications.
Consumer Nudging towards SDGs
This service covers the development, usability testing, and evaluation of digital nudging interventions to foster sustainable consumer behavior, e.g. on mobility platforms or e-commerce sites. Testing takes place in a virtual environment for safe and cost-effective validation before real-world deployment.
Hackathon: Rapid Innovation for Regional Challenges
New ideas within 24-48 hours: international student teams tackle real SME challenges together with mentors and experts, developing prototypes with digital tools and agile methods. This offers a unique chance for fresh perspectives and access to the European innovation network.
Use Cases for Self-Organising Systems
This use case workshop aims to unlock the potential for innovation and define follow-up activities for self-organising systems in sports, wellness, tourism, culture and more. Participants will explore scenarios, assess their feasibility and outline a clear implementation plan, ensuring that the results translate into concrete initiatives.
Wireless Tech Comparison Lab
The suitability of wireless technologies such as 5G and UWB for specific use cases (e.g. energy consumption during data transmission) is compared. This helps companies to identify the most suitable communication technologies for their technical networks, including sensors and devices.
SwarmX Feasibility Lab
Potential applications of drone swarms, such as visitor management and sustainability monitoring, are explored. We assess the feasibility of specific scenarios for companies and helps them select suitable drone systems.
Workshop Data Space Use Case
In a joint workshop, you develop concrete use cases to create rapid added value through your own data and data exchange in data spaces. The fundamentals of data spaces and data governance are also conveyed.
Workshop Data Strategy
This two-part series lays a solid data foundation for organizations. Part one conveys the basics of data strategy and data governance; part two presents a guideline for creating a data management plan, including a practical toolkit.
Prototyping Lab – Sports Innovation
This service involves developing a functional physical or digital prototype based on a specific problem statement during a compact one-day one-on-one workshop. At one of the two Pioniergarage locations, sports-related startups, SMEs, clubs, and associations receive targeted consulting, coaching, and practical support – either from the on-site team and/or from specialized external experts.
SportsTech Challenge
The SportsTech Challenge is a hackathon format to solve a specific, real-world problem for one or more companies in the sports sector. Interdisciplinary teams develop creative, technology-driven solutions.