Hogrefe Innovation Lab

Developing innovative solutions in psychological publishing.

We’d love to hear from you. Contact our Innovation Lab team to explore how we can bring your psychological innovations to market and discuss partnership opportunities.

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Our mission

At the Hogrefe Innovation Lab, we specialize in transforming psychological research into commercially viable products by partnering with universities and technology transfer offices. We actively seek out collaborations with innovators exploring the intersection of psychology and technology. As Europe’s foremost psychology publisher, Hogrefe provides unparalleled access to rigorous, evidence-based content and facilitates the growth of forward-thinking start-ups in the psychology sector.

About the Hogrefe Innovation Lab

The inception of the Hogrefe Innovation Lab was driven by our commitment to utilize emerging technologies in psychological testing and computer-based training. Our two-fold mission is to develop innovative products in psychological publishing and to drive innovation across Hogrefe. Our team of product owners and project managers carries out hands-on research to deliver solutions that continually adapt to and anticipate the evolving needs of our customers. By combining scientific expertise with an agile mindset, the Innovation Lab shapes the future of evidence-based psychology.

Psychological assessment is at the heart of what we do at Hogrefe. With our tests, books and journals spanning the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and mental health available in multiple languages, we enable professionals worldwide to make evidence-based decisions and foster meaningful change. As an independent, family-owned company, we pride ourselves on delivering high-quality, innovative resources that advance knowledge and support experts in both academia and practice.

To learn more about Hogrefe, see our vision.

What we offer

At the Hogrefe Innovation Lab, we love collaborating with technology transfer offices, universities, research institutions, and start-ups, combining our psychological expertise with your innovative research to bring new solutions to life. Here’s what we bring to the table:

Technology Transfer
We transform academic insights into market-ready products by leveraging 75 years of publishing expertise and a vast distribution network—ensuring innovative ideas reach their full potential.
Innovative Solutions
Our Innovation Lab explores emerging technologies—from digital platforms to game-based assessments—to develop cutting-edge tools that bring together psychological research and practice.
Psychological Tests and Assessments
Our partners can utilize Hogrefe’s extensive portfolio of validated psychological tests for research, clinical practice, or education — enhancing the quality of their outcomes.
Access to Leading-Edge Publications
Our partners gain access to Hogrefe’s extensive range of academic books and journals in psychology, psychiatry, and related disciplines — keeping their projects informed by the latest research.

By collaborating with the Hogrefe Innovation Lab, you gain a partner with shared commitment to bringing your ideas to life and driving psychological knowledge forward — empowering you to effectively bridge the gap between academic research and market-ready solutions.

We’d love to hear from you. Contact our Innovation Lab team to explore how we can bring your psychological innovations to market and discuss partnership opportunities.

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Cutting-edge assessments:

We are always looking for new ways to supplement our existing test portfolio with new, digital solutions that fit our customers’ needs – from digital versions of our existing tests, to assessments administered during natural conversations, to innovative screening tools using state-of-the-art technology.

Serious Games:

We integrate technology with psychological science by developing serious games as tools for assessment and intervention. By integrating gamification elements, these digital applications provide engaging, interactive environments that capture real-time behavioral data and cognitive responses. This helps us make assessments more accessible, interventions more personalized, and outcomes more measurable.

Automatic scoring:

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Psychological assessments are traditionally scored manually, taking valuable resources away from clinicians and HR personnel. We develop technological solutions that allow our customers to effortlessly receive scores for our psychological tests whether they administer them digitally or in the traditional paper and pencil format.

Diagnostic tools:

We develop tools that support psychologists by simplifying routine diagnostic tasks. For example, the Hogrefe Toolbox App converts standard scores, calculates age at testing, and determines confidence intervals. With intuitive tools and visualizations like norm curves, we streamline assessments and save professionals valuable time—allowing them to focus more on interpreting results and supporting their clients.

AI:

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We integrate AI into our workflows to make menial tasks faster and more efficient, so that we can focus on finding innovative solutions for our customers. While we see promise in leveraging AI to enhance our products, you can trust that our content – from books to tests to interventions – will always be written by experts and scientifically validated.

Infrastructure:

It is important to us to build and maintain the technical foundations that power our digital solutions—from secure data pipelines and scalable cloud services to modular test delivery platforms. Our infrastructure expertise ensures that our psychological assessments and digital tools are fast, dependable, and compliant with the highest data protection standards. This enables us to bring innovative products to market quickly while giving our users the confidence they need in our technology.

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Listen to our AI-generated audio summary on the Hogrefe Innovation Lab and what we offer our collaborators. This audio summary was created with the assistance of Google NotebookLM. The content is based on materials we provided and has been reviewed and edited by our team.