Positive change with the SINGA Business Lab

At denkwerk, we mean what we say. For example, that innovation can bring about positive change in people's lives. That you can and must take them along with you in the digital transformation and that this must not remain just an empty shell. In order to strengthen the innovative spirit of the start-up scene and to advocate our conviction even more clearly, we are working together with SINGA in Germany. The movers and shakers at SINGA have recognized that outstanding innovations can only be created when different perspectives and experiences come together in one place. At this point, we follow denkwerk's credo: Create positive change.

Creating innovations and initiating change: This is the spirit of start-ups that we, as old hands, still know from our early days. We continue to work actively in the start-up scene. Our involvement with SINGA combines the area of innovation with inclusivity. After all, just ten percent of start-ups in Germany are founded by people born abroad. This is where a lot of hidden talent and opportunities lie: we want to be a supporting pillar to fully exploit the innovation potential and bring the talents of tomorrow to light.

This is another reason why we think the startup scene needs to be made more inclusive by involving more founders with different perspectives and experiences. Especially because many of the newcomers to Germany bring entrepreneurial experience with them.

We have worked a lot on our vision of social and societal responsibility in recent years. As you can see with our involvement with the YOU Foundation or our project to raise awareness of synesthesia, we have taken big steps forward and made important issues visible. Now we are taking many small steps to promote inclusivity and diversity, for example. We are taking a new path and cooperating with SINGA in Germany. And thus, through our vision, support many people who participate in SINGA's workshops and various mentoring programs. We think that now is the right time to promote and use this potential.

We support the participants in the SINGA Business Lab in finding ideas, in shaping them and, towards the end, in founding their own companies. The Business Lab itself is an inclusive incubator: The workshop format was developed together with newly arrived entrepreneurs. The Business Lab now supports the participating entrepreneurs in building innovative and scalable companies. But not only that: In order to achieve their own and ambitious goals, the Lab provides them with further training and a broad network. We at denkwerk support the founders in our workshop in the area of business model building. This is done, among other things, with methods from the context of Lean Start-up in order to identify critical hypotheses and to optimize the business model. We provide a trainer and other "buddies" as mentors for the individual participants of the SINGA Business Lab. Through this social commitment, we prepare the participants to grow their own personality and equip them with skills that can show them the desired success.