Today, for the first time, we find ourselves at a time in which immense technological progress can enable us to solve the great open problems of mankind. At the same time, global networking, complex infrastructures, huge amounts of data and emerging artificial intelligence are challenging us on an unprecedented scale. The Cooperative Digital Innovations department of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) is active with technological developments at the focal points of our post-industrial, highly digitalised and networked knowledge society. With open innovation, value-based design thinking for the implementation of exemplary social norms of technology application, and convinced co-creation, exactly those ecosystems can be created that are needed to deal with the problems of the future. The AIT therefore understands innovation as a selection for the good, which makes the central needs of users and demanders of advanced security technologies the irrevocable starting point for every research service.