Some tech­no­lo­gies are neither avail­able in the mar­ket, nor is there any­one will­ing to provide know-how for a stra­tegic part­ner­ship. In these instances Fielmann Ven­tures con­ducts its own research and devel­op­ment. Our R&D Team con­sists of spe­cial­ists with expert­ise in optic­al meas­ure­ment, soft­ware devel­op­ment and machine learn­ing. In their work, they draw on sup­port both from sci­ent­ists with­in the Fielmann Group as well as research­ers from lead­ing aca­dem­ic insti­tu­tions and oth­er com­pan­ies. With 14 dir­ectly and indir­ectly held pat­ents and many more pending Fielmann Ven­tures is open to co-pat­ent­ing and pat­ent-shar­ing. Bene­fits repor­ted by research part­ners include mar­ket insight, net­work, access to data (with­in the con­straints of the EU-GDPR and our Data Strategy) and research break­throughs.