futureSAX for SMEs

Where companies meet a vibrant ecosystem to create diverse innovations and growth.

We support Saxon companies in their growth

Cooperation & Collaboration

We promote the exchange of experience and information between innovative Saxon companies and science so that innovations can be implemented more quickly.

Cooperation

Innovation management & mentoring

futureSAX provides support in finding contacts and ideal matching so that experience can be exchanged.

Mentoring

Growth and scaling

We offer companies in the growth phase a wide range of options to support them with the challenges of scaling: So that growth can be shaped sustainably.

Growth phase

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Our formats

futureSAX Innovation Forum

The central impulse event for Saxony's SMEs.

Innovation forum

Saxon Innovation Exchange

The Saxon Innovation Exchange offers customers and providers of innovative solutions in cross-industry trend fields low-threshold networking to initiate cooperation.

Innovation exchange

Saxon Mentoring Day

The impulse event and exchange format for mentors and mentees in the Saxon Mentoring Network.

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The Saxon Innovation Award honors outstanding innovations from established Saxon companies that have been successfully implemented and launched on the market or within the company in the previous three years

Innovation Award

Saxon mentoring network

Exchange of experience for young and established companies

Mentoring network

futureSAX on Tour

With futureSAX on Tour, we are on the road throughout Saxony's innovation ecosystem. At events organized by partners from our networks, we present the support options and services offered by the innovation platform.

on tour

Do not miss

Saxon Innovation Conference

17.06.2025| 10:00 - 20:00 | Dresden

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Our goals

Motivating SMEs to innovate

We strengthen the willingness to innovate in the regions, especially among micro-enterprises and in the event of changes within the company, and motivate larger companies to collaborate.

Innovations qualify to grow

We are working on expanding personal skills within the company, for example through mentoring, professionalizing innovation management and building up specialist skills for scaling.

Making the framework conditions for innovation in Saxony visible

We work to facilitate access to growth capital, facilitate access to start-ups and science projects and channel networking needs to ministries and partners.

Network & community building within the target group

We are working to increase awareness of the types of innovation in Saxony both within the Saxon innovation ecosystem and outside of it.

Entrepreneurs

Report on the Saxon Innovation Exchange for Building, Housing and Energy

Over 70 participants came together to learn about new technologies, network and initiate collaborations.

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Transfer Entrepreneurs

On the Road to Innovation - Energies of the future

On October 22, 2025, four EU-funded research projects presented their solutions for the energy of the future at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences.

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Start-ups Transfer Entrepreneurs

The German Startup Monitor 2025 and the Saxon perspective

The German Startup Monitor 2025, the most comprehensive study on the startup ecosystem in Germany, was published on September 29.

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Alle News

Start-ups Investors Entrepreneurs

futureSAX meets Oberlausitz: Bautzen Edition

05. Feb 2026

FutureSAX-Event

05.02.2026 | 18:00 - 21:00 | Region Landkreis Bautzen | Bautzen

Look forward to pitches from high-potential start-ups with the latest Saxon innovations. Vote for the start-up of the evening! Exchange ideas with other entrepreneurs and investors.

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Start-ups Investors Entrepreneurs

futureSAX meets SC DHfK Handball

19. MAR 2026

FutureSAX-Event

19.03.2026 | 17:30 - 21:00 | Region Leipzig

Look forward to pitches from promising start-ups with the latest Saxon innovations. Vote for the start-up of the evening! Exchange ideas with other entrepreneurs and investors. Get exciting insights into the world of handball (powered by Commerzbank Leipzig and BAM! e.V.)

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Start-ups Investors Transfer Entrepreneurs

On the Road to Innovation - Hydrogen and mobility

16. Apr 2026

FutureSAX-Event

16.04.2026 | 12:30 - 16:00 | Region Chemnitz

The event series On the Road to Innovation provides insights into European-funded cutting-edge research from Saxony!

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