Berlin, October 29, 2025. Innovation policy is the new security policy – with this message, Friedrich Merz opened the launch event of the Hightech Agenda Germany, the new innovation program of the Federal Government. His appeal: Germany must finally translate its innovative strength into tangible value creation and systematically bring research results into application.
In line with this appeal, Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel, Co-Director of the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, emphasized in his keynote that this transfer from research to application must be demonstrated particularly in the key technology of artificial intelligence – a technology that can only unfold its full potential when access, collaboration, and implementation are conceived as one:
“Apply, Access, Advance. We need to bring artificial intelligence into broad application and realize its value creation potential. We must improve access to AI – to research, talent, compute, and start-ups. And we should combine our research strength with the data treasures of our economy to create the next generation of AI: an Industrial AI with leadership ambition. That is the message of the Hightech Agenda we discussed here in Berlin today.”
With its interdisciplinary approach, the Lamarr Institute embodies precisely this vision: understanding research, transfer, and application as a unified whole. The agenda reflects this aspiration – excellence in research should translate into economic strength and societal impact. The goal is a new generation of artificial intelligence emerging from Germany that sets global standards. The discussions in Berlin once again highlighted that achieving this goal will only be possible through close cooperation between science, industry, and policy.
