The NUCLEI partners CRIT SRL and Steinbeis Europa Zentrum organised a Working Table on Innovation Management during the ICE/IEEE International Technology Management Conference in Stuttgart (Germany) on the 20th of June 2018. The transnational Working Tables support the exchange of information, ideas and experiences between companies which are not direct competitors, shares knowledge, and initiate multi-partner research projects. Within this workshop the companies of Festo AG (Germany), John Deere GmbH & Co.KG (Germany), and Holonix S.r.l. (Italy) have shared and disscused experiences and best practices in Innovation Management and Open Innovation approaches.