How do you innovate in a 170 year-old organization? This is the job of Danny Krautz, senior manager of new ventures at Zeiss, a German multinational in the optics industry with more 5 billion euros in revenues and operations in 30 countries. Danny focuses on one specific part of the company’s overall innovation strategy: investing in early stage high-technology startups. In this interview, he talks about how hard it is to find a right match and how important the Berlin innovation scene has become.

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