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Companies have to continuously focus on innovation in order to survive. Especially in the software industry it is important to do so due to rapid technological change and shorter product life cycles. To guarantee the success of an innovation, a structured innovation process is needed. In addition, it is recommended to integrate marketing from the beginning in order to ensure that customer and market orientation are being considered and incorporated throughout the entire innovation process. The aim of this master thesis is to elaborate a marketing-oriented software innovation process. Therefore, the theoretical part deals with the structure of an innovation process and how marketing can contribute to the different phases of an innovation process. The structure of an innovation process needs to be able to respond to company-specific factors. This is the reason why four process approaches are valid for the software industry. These are the spiral model, the Stage-Gate process, the V-Model, and the waterfall model. Currently, the marketing department of AVL´s business unit Advanced Simulation Technologies (AST) is solely involved at the end of the innovation process by creating marketing material for the promotion of the software release. To discover how the AST marketing department can support the different phases of an innovation process from the idea generation to the software release, 15 individual explorations with employees from international software companies are carried out. These interviewees also provide insights into their organization’s innovation process. The outcome of these explorations serves as a basis for an internal focus group in which selected AST employees are asked to share their opinion about how the AST marketing department could be integrated in the different phases of the innovation process. As a next step, a marketing-oriented innovation process must be defined for AST. Therefore, it is discovered which of the four mentioned innovation processes is most likely to integrate marketing from the beginning and to fulfill further process criteria. As a result, a recommended innovation process as well as marketing tasks for the different phases of the selected process are introduced.