In high gear
Kapp Niles, machine manufacturer in Marzahn, is looking forward to new arrivals in the CleanTech Business Park:
CleanTech Business Park Marzahn (CBP) is a delicate plant that is only just beginning to thrive. But the seed was planted in fertile ground. Not only because clean future technologies are created here, but because the…
Adlershof Journal July/August 2020
Let’s talk! Innovation starts with finding the right words:
Digital translators: Will learning languages soon become obsolete? // Language as a tool: the power of the spoken word // Detective work against dementia: early diagnosis of Alzheimer's
The language enthusiast
Saša Petrović is a technology manager at the Photovoltaics Centre in Adlershof:
What was is that brought her to Adlershof in the end? It all came down to two things that Saša Petrović had loved since her days at school. Her enthusiasm for languages, especially German. And a knack for the natural…
Berlin Adlershof: Facts and Figures
The Berlin Adlershof Science City is one of the most successful high-technology sites in Germany and Berlin’s largest media site. It is home to 1,203 companies and scientific institutions (Dec 2019) on an area of…
Awoken from a slumber – how inventors bent on the future mix with developers ready to invest
Gregor Keck, head of the regional management agency for Berlin’s South East region, about happy investors, shared identities, and a lively industrial culture:
How do you define, what we call, a ‘Zukunftsort’, a place where future innovation is created? It is a place where scientists and businesses get together, which especially includes companies that plan and execute…
‘Basic trust’ is the key
Mobile and remote work is more than a modern corporate must-have:
Mobile and remote work is more than modern corporate must-have. In today’s world of work, it is also an issue of employer branding. However, it also requires some preliminary work, trust, and special management skills…
The fake news pandemic
Dr. Peter Strunk about how to handle the ‘infodemic’:
Whether it’s climate change deniers, election interferers, or neo-Nazis inciting hatred against refugees - their most important tool for manipulating the public is the peddling of fake news and conspiracy theories on…
WISTA launches B2B-Platform during the corona crisis
Support with personnel, equipment, material, know-how etc...:
The economic situation during the Corona pandemic is a huge challenge for many companies. Some companies have to go on short-time work while others work extra shifts. In this difficult situation, we want to offer a…
FUBIC provides an ideal infrastructure for start-ups, spin-offs and established companies
Interview with project manager Jörg Israel about the new innovation campus in a scientific environment:
Up to 80 start-ups will move into the former US military hospital on Fabeckstrasse in Berlin-Dahlem by 2022. The hospital, which was built by the Allies in the 1970s, will be refurbished for this purpose. Built and…
FUBIC: an innovative, all-electric model project
The energy supply of the future innovation centre FUBIC will be based on a so-called all-electric system, powered solely by electricity from renewable sources:
The special feature of an all-electric building is that even the heating is powered by electricity. ‘Implementation of an all-electric estate is challenging,’ explains Beate Mekiffer, ‘especially if your goal is to…
New Network “Campus Club Adlershof” for Material and Environmental Technology
Interdiciplinary Cooperation and Talent-Recruiting:
With more than 60 participants, the event exceeded all expectations. The start-ups OrelTech, INURU, Nano-Join, Tiwari, Solaga and PSC presented the current status of their research and products from the Adlershof…
Adlershof Journal January/February 2020
A place for the bright-minded: meet the Science City’s start-ups:
Dynamism meets experience: Adlershofer Accelerator in fourth round // The future makers: High-tech founders instead of copycats // Secret recipe for business idea: Search for answers to unmet demand // …
How do you manage a co-working space?
In conversation with Marina Salmon, who in addition to WISTA’s co-working space is also in charge of the Long Night of the Sciences and the science slams in Adlershof:
Marina Salmon runs the show at the WISTA’s co-working space at Rudower Chaussee 17. When the Technology Park’s first-ever co-working space was founded in November 2017, the business economist also ventured into new…
A user’s guide to starting a business
The Business Plan Competition Berlin-Brandenburg turns 25 / 2nd Meet-up at the Technology Park Adlershof on 13/02/2020:
On 13 February 2020, founders, entrepreneurs and jurors will meet up at the 2nd Meet-up of the Business Plan Competition Berlin-Brandenburg (BPW) in Adlershof. One of the most well-known business plan competitions of…
From founders to entrepreneurs
Interview with Lars Hansen, the head of CHIC:
The Charlottenburg Innovation Centre CHIC is now home to nearly 60 start-ups. The building complex close to Berlin’s Ernst-Reuter-Platz is part of Berlin Campus Charlottenburg, one of the largest inner-city university…
Dynamism meets experience
Innovative start-ups and established companies successfully collaborate in the A² Adlershof programme:
Finding a parking spot with an app, documenting a house’s mains connections using a smartphone, testing the functionality of your home’s heating with a camera, or checking whether the waste at recycling locations…
Charlottenburg Innovation Centre is looking forward to new young companies
Eight-year incubation period ended with successful departure of the first founder generation:
2019 saw a turning point at the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC). Young companies are eligible to stay there for eight years. Now that CHIC’s first eight-year period expired, some companies, including Virtenio…
Mission 2030
How do we keep the Technology Park Adlershof on a road to success?:
Things are going smoothly in Adlershof. To make sure this continues, WISTA Management GmbH is thinking about ways to keep the site on a road to success – and to make it even better. It is seldom good to rest on one’s…
Science as a location factor
Michael Müller, Berlin’s governing mayor and senator for higher education and research, talked to us about recruiting new talent, how Berlin’s ‘Zukunftsorte’ bridge gaps, and how Adlershof is expanding its universities for future PE teachers:
Adlershof Journal: Mr. Governing Mayor, please gaze into your crystal ball: what will the Berlin as hub for science and research look like in 2030? It will certainly be more modern, more international, and more…
Secret places
Time travelling through the Egg Room, the magnificent director’s office, and other hidden places:
A neon-lit corridor, cold and long, leads up to the director’s office – decorated with all kinds of insignia of power. The R1 building with its rather austere exterior was once home to the television broadcaster of…