Collaboration
The Hub for Collaboration
Where a company's own reach ends, the strength of the network begins.
Expanding your Circle of Influence creates new opportunities, reduces risk and accelerates innovation.
The Hub expands your circle of influence.
The Digital Hub brings together the right partners to expand companies' circle of influence. Through carefully curated and facilitated collaborations, organizations develop better solutions faster, reduce risk and shorten the journey from idea to impact.
The Hub as Part of Your Innovation Strategy
Germany's largest innovation ecosystem for logistics and commerce. A community built on openness, psychological safety, and initiative.
CURATED NETWORK
As a platform for inspiration and validation, the Hub provides a direct path to innovation with measurable impact.
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PEER-TO-PEER SPARRING
You learn faster from fellow corporates than from external consultants.
CO-CREATION & STRUCTURED FORMATS
This is where ideas turn into action.
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Collaboration between startups, scale-ups and corporates.
You benefit from a carefully curated network of relevant partners in your industry, without the time and effort of building it yourself. At joint events, you openly exchange best practices with your peers. Many of these conversations evolve into collaborations, and some even lead to strategic partnerships or equity investments.
Corporates become pilot customers for startups and scaleups.
Adopting market-ready or near-market-ready solutions from startups and scaleups enables faster implementation in the core business. If a solution is not yet market-ready, testing it in a real corporate environment can accelerate product-market fit.
Market Pull – Innovation demand driven by corporate partners.
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Corporate Partner
Our partners are shaping the digital future of logistics and commerce with courage and an entrepreneurial spirit.
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CORPORATE PARTNER
From SMEs to global players.
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STARTUPS & SCALE-UPS
Ready to grow
Scale-Ups
Startups
The tech push from startups and scale-ups drives innovation into the market.
Hub Memberships
Exchange, fresh perspectives and collaborative formats accelerate innovation. Together, you'll achieve in months what would take years on your own. From the first idea to a scaled pilot. And beyond: as long-term partners, not short-term service providers.
Innovation across the entire value chain.
We see logistics and commerce as one connected ecosystem. Digital Hub brings together the right stakeholders and creates the environment for innovations that integrate seamlessly and solve real-world challenges.
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WHAT OUR PARTNERS AT THE DIGITAL HUB SAY
„Im Digital Hub finden wir genau das, was es an der Schnittstelle von Handel und Logistik braucht: inspirierenden, ehrlichen und praxisnahen Austausch – und echte Co-Creation mit Unternehmen und Startups“
Laura Andersch
Head of SCM Reverse Logistics Tchibo
Our ecosystem partners
Through our ecosystem partners, we are deeply connected across a wide range of industries. We are happy to connect you with relevant projects and, where it creates value, bring together the right partners across industries.
Funding Programmes
Through our funding programmes, you also gain access to EU-wide networks, cross-industry innovation projects, and additional events and networking opportunities.
European Digital
Innovation Hub Hamburg
We are proud to be part of the European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) programme, an excellence initiative of the European Union that aims to strengthen digital competitiveness across Europe.
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The Digital Hub Logistics & Commerce Innovation Ecosystem
This funded project is made possible through financial support from the European Union under the Europäischen Fonds für regionale Entwicklung (EFRE) #EFREhamburg.
