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Factory hall ©R3 Solutions GmbH
02.09.2024

The liberators of manufacturing

The EchoRing system from R3 Solutions enables wireless, highly reliable and extremely fast data transmission:

The Götterflug rollercoaster at Belantis, an amusement park in Leipzig, is THE attraction. This thrill ride is controlled, monitored, and secured by R3 solutions, a company based in Berlin-Charlottenburg, and its…

Aerial view of Adlershof photographed from Ernst-Ruska-Ufer © WISTA.Plan GmbH/Dirk Laubner
25.03.2024

Berlin Adlershof: High technology, skilled employees and openness as key success factors

Germany's largest science and technology park remains an important pillar of Berlin's economy :

The Berlin Adlershof Science and Technology Park continued its positive development in 2023. Revenues and budget funds grew by a solid 7.1% to € 3.9 billion (2022: € 3.6 billion). The number of employees remained…

Lea Leibold and Jonas Minkler, KURO © WISTA Management GmbH
14.03.2024

KURO – A new start-up is breathing life into the construction industry

At the Adlershof Founder’s Lab, the team is developing software designed to make calculations much easier:

A start-up based at Adlershof Technology Park is working to bring about a revolution in the construction industry. Utilising artificial intelligence, the audacious founders are looking to fundamentally change the way…

Fleet of ships at sea © Kalyakan/AdobeStock
06.03.2024

AI for trade and transport of commodities

The software company Calypso Commodities develops optimisation solutions for logistics:

The world is changing. Bit by bit, fossil fuels are being replaced. But this will not happen overnight. Until renewable hydrogen creates a green commodities industry and innovative storage concepts make sun and wind…

Tractor with laser system for weed control © Escarda
06.03.2024

Lasers on the field

Escarda Technologies GmbH is developing an herbicide-free alternative for weed control at CleanTech Marzahn:

Weed control using herbicides has many disadvantages: It costs worldwide agriculture a good 15 billion euros every year. This trend is increasing sharply, threatening biodiversity, and contaminating foodstuffs and…

Founder Manuel Dedio
06.03.2024

The alphabet of the universe

Manuel Dedio has developed an “app for non-enthusiastic mathematicians”:

Although most remember him as a philosopher, Plato was one of the most important promoters of mathematics in ancient Greece. Galileo Galilei, another famous philosopher and scientist, once waxed lyrically about…

Susann Niemeyer, Head of the WISTA IT Centres © WISTA Management GmbH
05.03.2024

Blossoming landscapes in IT

Is the digital transformation stalling in Germany? Not in Adlershof it isn’t.:

The campus is well-positioned, and its companies and research facilities are setting standards. Nonetheless, they have not been immune to the shortage of skilled workers. The corridors of GFal Society for the…

Katharina Eissing, 1000 Kelvin GmbH © K. Eissing
11.01.2024

AI for additive manufacturing processes

1000 Kelvin GmbH from the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre is on a growth course with its software for selective laser sintering processes:

The company 1000 Kelvin GmbH from the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC) is on a growth course. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) in additive manufacturing to optimise the quality of metal components and to…

Lenka Ivantysynova © WISTA Management GmbH
01.11.2023

Eyes don’t lie

The start-up Amphiprion develops software for biometric identification:

Moving to the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC) is like a journey back in time for the team of the newly founded start-up Amphiprion. Almost ten years ago, they had already been here to help a newly found…

Janina Krassa © YouCan! gGmbH
01.11.2023

Everything is easier together

The start-up YouCan! supports children, teenagers, and young adults with cancer:

They tend to lie in hospital beds, pull the blankets over their heads, and retreat. Being diagnosed with cancer is a severe blow and a life-changing event, especially for young people. Using an app, the Berlin-based…

PANTOhealth team © PANTOhealth
30.06.2023

Predictive maintenance for rail transport

The team of the start-up PANTOhealth wants to increase reliability and punctuality of rail traffic:

Rail is considered the most environmentally friendly form of public transport. But it, too, has its problems. Delays and cancellations are two of them. One reason for why they happen is unscheduled maintenance on the…

Aerial photo with iconic graphic © WISTA.Plan GmbH/Dirk Laubner
27.03.2023

Berlin Adlershof: Record growth despite skills shortage and multiple crises

Positive development despite interlocking crises/ Remarkable increase particularly in employment:

Despite various interlocking crises, the Science and Technology Park in Berlin Adlershof was able to grow significantly in 2022. Revenues and budgetary resources increased to €3.63 billion (2021: €3.21 billion),…

Andreas Scheel © Science & Startups
07.11.2022

Accelerating innovation thanks to AI

The digital assistant of IdeaLab.Systems is to provide companies with information for the innovation process in real time:

“Creating innovation is a labour-intensive process,” says Andreas Scheel. “Market and patent research alone takes up a lot of time.” The innovation manager is out to change this – using artificial intelligence (AI).…

Cecilia Maas, aureka © WISTA Management GmbH
05.07.2022

“Access to information is a fundamental right”

Artificial intelligence and archives:

“I am a historian and used many audiovisual media from countless archives for my PhD,” says Cecilia Maas. “That’s when I noticed that tapping into and thus accessing them is very difficult. Listening to 4,000 original…

Nele Diekmann, Marcel vom Lehn, Historicity ©WISTA Management GmbH
05.07.2022

CHIC start-up develops history lesson of the future

The Historicity agency wants to use playful learning to teach about history:

The aim is to inspire new users for historic content by using apps and tablets. The two founders agree that good storytelling helps to make knowledge stick. The young boy with the messy red hair is a bit cheeky. But…

Stephan Schäfer (l.) width students © Britta Radike / HTW Berlin
02.05.2022

“Homo digitalis” or Having fun at work

Stephan Schäfer, professor of automation technology at HTW Berlin, talks about the human-machine partnership:

Humans have been living with machines for centuries. These partnerships – everyone seems to agree – will become deeper, more substantial, and more comprehensive than ever before in future. Data, processing power, and…

W. Prasser, Logicalis © WISTA Management GmbH
29.10.2021

Fast, faster, Adlershof!

The Technology Park is on the way to becoming the best-connected place within a 1,000 kilometre radius. This will soon include an exclusive 5G campus network that will create some crucial benefits. :

This is where future is made. And it could not be made without high bandwidth, robust connections, and little to no latency. In short: it could not be made without 5G. The newest mobile network generation.…

Martin Will and Marcel Linke, WISTA.Service © WISTA Management GmbH
14.09.2021

Digital processes

A WISTA facilities manager shows us what the new world of work looks like:

WISTA.Service GmbH looks after around 100 buildings with a combined floor space of several 100,000 square metres, including the most cutting-edge science institutes and technology centres that feature sophisticated…

Florian Berg and Julius Wiesenhütter at WISTA’s co-working space © WISTA Management GmbH
05.01.2021

A bold start – despite COVID-19

What drives prospective business founders – two teams from the Adlershof Founder’s Lab report:

Making the step to start a company requires courage, even when things are normal. What drives prospective founders to take the step during the epidemic year 2020? – two teams from the Adlershof Founder’s Lab…

A² programme manager Yvonne Plaschnick © WISTA Management GmbH
07.01.2020

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…