Innovative Technologies for Market Leadership: Investing in the Future

Smart Grid, Future Innovation and Investment Opportunities by Dean Sharafi.- Quantum Technologies by Daniel Akenine.- Security in Intelligent Transportation Telematics by Erich Franke.- Innovation and Future Technology Scenarios in Health Care - Ideas and Studies by Philipp Plugmann.- Unlocking the Power of Artificial Intelligence for Your Business by Patrick Glauner.- Innovation Means - Asking the Right Questions by Oliver Bludau.- Innovative Technologies in the Ageing Population - Breaking the Boundaries by Guido Lerzynski.- Using Augmented Reality and Machine Learning in Radiology by Lucian Trestioreanu, Patrick Glauner, Jorge Augusto Meira, Max Gindt and Radu State.- Digitalization in Mechanical Engineering by Michael Thurner and Patrick Glauner.- Lean Launch Data Engineering Projects With Super Type Power by Kenny Zhuo Ming Lu.- Ubiquitous Computing - from 5G to the Edge and Beyond by André Panné.- Autonomous Driving on the Thin Trail of Great Opportunities and Dangerous Trust by Sandro Mund and Patrick Glauner.- Analytic Philosophy for Biomedical Research: The Imperative of Applying Yesterday's Timeless Messages to Today's Impasses by Sepehr Ehsani (this contribution is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com).- Proposal-based Innovation - A New Approach to Opening up the Innovation Process by Karl H. Ohlberg and Jose L. Salmeron.- Technologies and Innovations for the Plastics Industry: Polymer 2030 by Michael Krause.- How do Innovative Business Concepts Enable Investment Opportunities in the Complete Con-struction Value Chain? by Christoph Jacob.- Motivation, Employees and Communication in the Start-up Phase by Achim Denkel.- AI to Solve the Data Deluge: AI-based Data Compression by Eric Falk.- Digital Transformation in Plastics Industry - From Digitization Towards Virtual Material by Christopher Stillings.