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A start-up is developing an off-grid refrigerator:

32-year-old Julia Römer is the CEO of Coolar UG and one of the few female founders in the technology sector. Since 2012, she and her team have been developing refrigerators, which run without electricity, have no CO2…

Thomas Pfeiffer develops affordable desalinisation and irrigation systems:

It started with a chance discovery in his inbox. Thomas Pfeiffer said to his business partner: “That sounds like a good idea. Let’s do it and see what happens.” The tender from Adlershof popped up on Pfeiffer’s screen…

The Gründerwerkstatt is the anchor tenant of a new co-working space:

They are all the rage: open spaces for working, networking and trying new things. Berlin is the world capital of co-working spaces and now the Technology Park has one its own. The newly-founded Gründerwerkstatt…

Inauguration of the Inkulab at the TU Berlin’s Charlottenburg Campus:

On 25 January 2017 the Inkulab – a laboratory container system, fully equipped with a ventilation system, and laboratory and safety facilities – was inaugurated at the TU Berlin’s Charlottenburg Campus. It provides…

A recent setup, the INAM network intends to introduce brilliant ideas to the field:

No basic research, no advanced materials. Yet all too often, pioneering knowledge fails to leave the laboratory because scientists shun the step to the product. It is important that all players join forces in the…

Customized laboratory for start-ups / Ground-breaking ceremony for “Inkulab”:

The ground-breaking ceremony for “Inkulab” was celebrated on the Charlottenburg campus of Technische Universität Berlin on August 26, 2016. By October of this year, a laboratory container, fully equipped with a…

The new Adlershof Accelerator promotes new companies in a number of sectors:

There are accelerator programmes all over Europe. They help start-ups to enter markets at record speed. And both national and international companies are focusing heavily on Berlin: this city is the federal and…

Support for university researchers in the life sciences, green chemistry, and nanotechnology:

The subject of entrepreneurship has long been a course of study. All of Berlin’s universities have set up a start-up service. This advises graduates and postgraduates who have published commercially exploitable…

Incubators build bridges between science and research on the one side and the market on the other:

Incubators provide the ideal conditions for the initial steps into business life. This has been working for a long time in Adlershof, so Berlin is now relying on the knowhow of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH when setting up…

Humboldt Innovation has a strong focus on Adlershof:

Functional fixedness can be expressed as follows: “We’ve always done it that way, why should we do it any differently now?” Ranking beside the lack of funds or skills to launch, market, or push through an invention in…

In his professional career Gerhard Raetz has had a lot to do with business plans: Nearly twenty years ago he wrote his first one. It was “torn into tiny pieces” by the bank. Nonetheless something did come of the idea: A startup centre that has now accompanied over 350 company setups and will be celebrating its “age of majority” this year.:

With a remarkable resemblance to stone barracks with annexe modernised to western standards the low built structure caused mixed feelings among the assembled press on the day it was opened on 11th September 1991. In a…