Abbreviation T-Labs Headquarters Berlin Founded 2004 | Formation 2004 Phone +49 30 835358555 | |
Type Research Institute, Public Private Partnership Purpose Telecommunications research Location Darmstadt, Budapest, Beersheba, Mountain View Address Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin, Germany Parent organizations Deutsche Telekom, Technical University of Berlin Similar Berlin Institute of Technolo, Ernst‑Re, Cafeteria TU Skyline, Cafeteria TU Ernst‑Re, Universit Profiles | ||
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Telekom Innovation Laboratories (also called T-Labs) are a joint organization of Deutsche Telekom and selected universities, mainly the Technical University of Berlin. T-Labs are working in close cooperation with the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev at Be'er Sheva (Israel) and other universities, such as the Berlin University of the Arts and the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, as well as with partners from industry and start-ups. At the locations in Berlin, Darmstadt, Budapest and Mountain View, California (U.S.), approximately 360 experts and scientists from T-Labs are concentrating on long-term and medium-term innovation in the field of information and communications technology.
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History
T-Labs were founded in 2004 as the central research and development institute of Deutsche Telekom under the direction of Manfred Jeromin. At the same time, T-Labs are also a so-called affiliated institute of Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), meaning that T-Labs is a privately organized entity that is closely integrated in the teaching and research activities conducted at TU Berlin. This concept promotes intensive collaboration between research and industry. Experts, entrepreneurs and researchers work together on innovations intended for real-world application scenarios and on disruptive technologies in the area of information and communications technology.
T-Labs follow a consistent Open Innovation approach and are themselves an innovation as an affiliated institute and thus pioneered a new form of research and development. In a report for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), T-Labs have been presented as a benchmark example of modern innovation management.
At the beginning, 25 telecom employees and about 50 scientists from many countries worked at the T-Labs. Peter Möckel took over the management from November 2004 to 2011. Under his leadership, several professorships were established at the TU Berlin and a team was set up in Silicon Valley in 2009. In order to design the academic work, a scientific management board was set up which was initially led by Prof. Bernd Girod from Stanford University and then Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster from the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sahin Albayrak from the TU Berlin. In 2008, 100 other telecom experts were integrated into the T-Labs and other scientists were hired in parallel. First companies were founded.
In the year 2010, Heinrich Arnold was responsible for the reorientation of Telekom Laboratories to more application and implementation-oriented topics. In the course of this reorientation, he took over the management of T-Labs in 2011. During this period the foundations were laid for three new business units in the area of cloud computing, smart home and mobile payment for and within Deutsche Telekom. In addition, further focus areas with the topics of health, energy, Machine to machine and media were established. As a result, a number of cross-industrial projects have been carried out for the digital industry, such as in the port of Hamburg in 2012 with industrial partners such as SAP SE, Adidas, Claas, Osram, Siemens, KUKA and Trumpf.
Under the leadership of Heinrich Arnold, about 20 new spin-offs were founded.
Organization and fields of research
The fields of research at TU Berlin include
Success stories are: First place to implement the microkernel technology, first FlowVisor for SDN, a world record in 2012: 512 Gbit /s fixed line data transfer and the largest field trial for iBeacons in 2014.
Research scientists
Awards
T-Labs and its researchers have received more than 50 awards, for example: