On April 18th Sascha Heising from FabSpace together with Dr. Frank Zimmermann (CEO, cesah GmbH) joined the innovation center staff of Merck in Darmstadt. Merck is a global player in Healthcare, Life Science and Performance Materials. The objective of the meeting was to explore opportunities for future cooperation and the benefits of using earth observation technology. The team of Merck identified several starting points to build on. On the other hand, Sascha Heising and Dr. Frank Zimmermann were impressed by the effort of Merck to trigger new innovation. “The environment and spirit was quite inspiring”, summarizes Sascha Heising his impressions. The team is looking forward to visit the final Innovation Center, which will be ready for operation in the end of 2017 (read more).

from left: Sascha Heising, Matthias Simnacher, Dr. Frank Zimmermann and Hong Wa Poon at the current Innovation Center of Merck (image: FabSpace).

After presenting the scope and goals of FabSpace 2.0 both parties agreed to keep on the discussion and define concrete actions in the next few months.