Capital Region Berlin-Brandenburg Location benefits, facts, service
Research in the Capital Region available from the German federal government. This is a sign of the confidence placed in the expertise and forward-look- Practice-oriented research and development ing approaches found in the capital region in this field. There is exceptionally high scientific and research poten- Valued investments tial in the capital region. Fifty-two universities and institu- Alongside hardware-oriented topics, the capital region tions of higher learning and about 200 public and private with its institutes for software systems design, such as the Berlin-Brandenburg offers excellent and customized funding programs for direct investments research institutions form one of the most tightly knit rese- Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, offers outstanding and innovations. Support for investment is provided in the form of direct grants. The funding arch networks in Europe. Companies in the aerospace in- partners for system integration and further issues invol- programs pool resources from the EU, the German federal government and the states of Berlin dustry and innovative suppliers alike are among those that ving big data, the Internet of Things and cyber security. and Brandenburg. benefit from the expertise of technical universities in Berlin Quadriga in front of the Reichstag and Cottbus-Senftenberg, Brandenburg University of Ap- The region is also excellently positioned in terms of pro- plied Sciences, the University of Applied Sciences Wildau, duction of tangible products, from switches for large-scale High quality of life Beuth University of Applied Sciences, and the numerous electrical facilities and wiring for electrically powered spe- Max Planck, Leibniz and Fraunhofer Institutes. Many of cial vehicles to ultrasensitive measuring equipment and The region combines the international flair of the Berlin metropolis with the fascinating nature them work in tandem with small and medium-sized enter- production of component assembly equipment for market and historical sights of Brandenburg in a unique way. A singular club scene, renowned large prises on transforming innovations into new products. leaders like Intel and Samsung in Nauen – all of this is events, more than 170 museums, 150 theaters as well as some 500 castles, churches and found in Berlin-Brandenburg. parks are available to visitors. Sporting and leisure activities such as golf, riding, water sports Forschungsfabrik Mikroelektronik and flying have no limits. The costs of living, infrastructure and leisure are considerably more Worldwide, research is being done on the latest products Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam affordable than in comparable metropolitan regions. and materials for the electronics industry. Just recently, the German Federal Government has launched the What we offer you: Research Fab Microelectronics, a research network that Nine reasons to choose the capital region Customized service for businesses is competitive worldwide. It brings together the Leibniz Institute of Innovations for High Performance Microelec 1. Germany’s most tightly knit research network offers The two economic development corporations Berlin Partner for Business and Technology and tronics (IHP), which is located in Brandenburg, the outstanding innovation opportunities Brandenburg Invest (WFBB) provide comprehensive support for everything for investment or Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, which is located in Berlin and 2. Excellent market access due to prime logistical connec innovation related projects: competent, quick, without red tape, confidentially and free of charge. focuses on high-frequency technology, and eleven Fraun- tions with the most important European transport axes • Location: Facts and figures about the Berlin-Brandenburg economic region hofer Institutes. The research network encompasses four 3. Minimum strain on seed capital due to access to Excellent leisure opportunities in the • Personnel: Advice on recruitment and qualification of new employees virtual technology parks focusing on different areas: one of the best funding landscapes in Germany region • Real estate: Help looking for properties for rent and purchase 4. Save time with active support during fast and • Financing: Advice on promotional opportunities and financing methods 1. Latest in silicon-based technologies for sensors, non-bureaucratic permit and licensing procedures • Contacts to: Public authorities, banks, chambers of commerce, associations, company networks actuators, and information processing 5. Bright prospects for growth due to access to highly 2. Compound semiconductors featuring leading-edge qualified skilled workers and managers materials for energy conservation and communication 6. Cost-effective product development due to pooling www.brandenburg-invest.com technology research interests and integration into the growing www.brandenburg-business-guide.de Electronics Industry 3. Heterointegration – combining silicon and other semicon value chains of small and medium-sized businesses www.businesslocationcenter.de ductors for applications including the Internet of Things 7. Optimum connections with clusters in energy in the Capital Region Berlin-Brandenburg 4. Design, testing, and reliability, with an eye to designs technology, transportation, mobility and logistics, and design methods, quality and dependability healthcare, optics and photonics, in addition to information and communication technology, media In cooperation between companies in the region and this and the creative sector, metal, plastics and chemi- Your contact in Brandenburg: Your contact in Berlin: Publishing details organization, new technologies are being researched and cals, and the food industry prepared for the market in small series. Berlin-Brandenburg 8. Various associations in the electronics sector to Publisher: Brandenburg Invest (WFBB) in cooperation with Berlin Partner for Business and Technology on behalf of the Ministry for Economic Affairs secured EUR 130 million in funding for the local area, more represent your interests, including the ZVEI and and Energy of the State of Brandenburg and the Berlin Senate Department than one-third of the total of EUR 350 million in funding VDMA, with close connections to Germany’s politi- for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises Wirtschaftsförderung Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft Layout: Bergmann & Partner Werbeagentur, Berlin cal decision-making center Land Brandenburg GmbH und Technologie GmbH Photos: Cover: wafer in waferprober (© IHP/Weisflog), Page 2: test bed 9. Bring people on board more easily by offering Babelsberger Strasse 21, 14473 Potsdam Fasanenstrasse 85, 10623 Berlin (© IHP/Pleul); laser solder jetting technology (Packaging Technologies GmbH); Roald Koch David Hampel Page 4: LAPLACE-Cap process (Packaging Technologies GmbH); cleanroom Germany’s most attractive cities, combined with Senior Manager Electronics Industry, Head of Unit view (© IHP/Weisflog); chip (© IHP/Pleul); Page 5: dome of the Reichstag ideal places for your creative employees and their Foreign Direct Investment Asia Manufacturing Industries Building (Berlin Partner GmbH/FTP-Werbefotografie); Sanssouci Palace Tel.: +49 331 73061214 Tel.: +49 30 46302-422 (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg/Bach); THE GERMAN CAPITAL REGION families to get away from the hustle and bustle [email protected] [email protected] sailboats on the Havel (Boettcher/TMB-Fotoarchiv) www.brandenburg-invest.com www.berlin-partner.de Dated: October 2018 excellence in innovation 2 Electronics Industry Electronics Industry 3 Electronics Industry 4
Berlin-Brandenburg: The Electronics Industry The network for your success Greifswald An outstanding location for starting your business in Berlin-Brandenburg Selected electronics companies and research institutions in the capital region
Szczecin Hamburg Rostock 20 Microsystems technology A strong region Potential – networks 41 TDK-EPC AG & Co. KG As a cross-cutting, enabling technology, electronics and 1 Pac Tech - Packaging Technologies GmbH 42 Fluke Process Instruments 19 ckermark 2 Arquimea Deutschland GmbH electrical engineering play a key role in the capital region Autonomous driving and unmanned aviation Prignitz 43 alpha-board gmbh 3 GED Electronic Design GmbH for all clusters when it comes to development of new tech- Innovative electronic components also form the basis for 11 44 Tigris Elektronik GmbH nologies. All five clusters (healthcare; energy technology; autonomous driving and unmanned aviation. CURPAS, as 4 Prignitz Mikrosystemtechnik GmbH 4 45 Taube Electronic GmbH stprignitz- 40 optics and photonics; transportation, mobility and logistics; the latest company network that has been formed, brings 5 AEMtec GmbH Ruppin ber- 46 Robert Karst GmbH & Co. KG information and communication technology, media and together more than 50 businesses and research institu- 6 Sicoya GmbH OehnaKyritz havel 47 Kämpfe Elektronik GmbH creative sector) are shaped to a crucial extent by the use tions in the region, along with universities in Europe, in the Barnim 7 MAF Microelectronic Assembly Frankfurt (Oder) GmbH Ruppiner Land 48 KAPI electronics GmbH of innovative electronic products and components. This is areas of unmanned aerial systems and autonomous land (Fehrbellin)(Fehrbellin 47 8 microtech GmbH electronic 49 A.S.T. Leistungselektronik GmbH the case with smart living applications to optimize energy vehicles. In cooperation with Siemens Mobility (Berlin), ViP 39 33 Eberswalde-Finow consumption by household appliances, management Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam GmbH commissioned the world’s 24 48 Sensors Vehicle and drive electronics of electrical grids with high percentages of renewables, first autonomous tram in Potsdam in September 2018. Havelland M rkisch- 9 Silicon Radar GmbH 50 Laird Dabendorf GmbH autonomous driving, optimized charging and performance 1 derland 10 First Sensor AG 51 111 42 43 IAV GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr management for batteries in electric vehicles, use of Autonome Produktion Industrie 4.0 51 30 Strausberg 73 29 68 11 D-Sensors GmbH high-quality sensor systems for the aerospace industry All over the world, the highly automated industrial produc- Berlin-Tegel 62 27 34 69-7124 10 Digital Health 66 55 57 31 12 SensoMotoric Instruments Gesellschaft für innovative Sensorik mbH and road traffic, controlling of highly complex production tion found in Germany under the “Industry 4.0” umbrella 36 59 45 38 63 Brandenburg 10 67 25 23 13 Sensys Sensorik & Systemtechnologie GmbH 52 GETEMED Medizin- und Informationstechnik AG lines and much more. is viewed as exemplary. It is only possible through coordi- 56 32 37 10 Eggersdorf 54 64 11445 6 an der Havel 72 14 28 5 14 Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH 53 Emperra GmbH E-Health Technologies nated use of hardware and software during development BE46RLIN 14913 65 18 15 Berlin-Brandenburg is a quality location. With a population of electronic control elements. In Brandenburg, small and Potsdam Berlin Schönefeld Warszawa 15 ALRE-IT Regeltechnik GmbH 11 8 9 Lighting and audio technology 53 12 60 7 Warsaw 16 of six million, this hub of political and economic activity medium-sized enterprises receive special support in this 41 12 H.-P. FISCHER ELEKTRONIK GmbH & Co. 2 Potsdam- 52 2 54 Selux AG & Co. KG – Lichttechnische Werke Magdeburg 16 13 Frankfurt (O57der) 17 PRODAT Informatik GmbH boasts outstanding links to various markets via key Euro- area through transfer centers established for Industry 4.0 Hanover Mittelmark 50 22 3 35 55 OSRAM GmbH Werk Berlin pean transport axes. The region offers excellent prospects at the University of Potsdam and Brandenburg University 18 Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG for growth as well as high quality of life for employees and of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. In addition, the go- der- Eisenhüttenstadt 56 Lautsprecher Teufel GmbH Schönhagen Energy supply and switching equipment their families to startups and existing companies. vernment of Brandenburg offers offers attractive financial Spree 13 Telecommunications Teltow- 19 EMIS Electrics GmbH support programs for SMEs. 9 Fl ming 57 AVM Computersysteme Vertriebs GmbH 20 Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG Leipzig Dahme- Frankfurt am Main Spreewald 21 uesa GmbH Research institutions Munich Oehna 20 Cottbus- 22 Caleb Kabel GmbH 58 IHP GmbH – Leibniz Institute of Innovations for High Performance 19 Drewitz The electronics industry in the capital region 23 Bruker Nano GmbH Microelectronics Cottbus 24 RITTER Starkstromtechnik GmbH & Co. KG 59 Forschungsfabrik Mikroelektronik Deutschland c/o Fraunhofer The industry in the capital region AEG, Telefunken and Konrad Zuse – the inventor of the ber- 26 61 Group for Microelectronics Wrocław 25 Prysmian Kabel und Systeme GmbH Electrical engineering and electronics is Germany’s sec first computer – underscore the area’s importance. Here, spree- 15 60 Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau Elbe- 21 wald- Neuhausen Automation ond largest industrial sector, accounting for more than innovation and entrepreneurship come together, making Spree- 61 Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg Elster Lausitz three percent of GDP and ten percent of total exports. In the region once again one of the leading sites of activity in Nei e 26 62 Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin 13 IBAR Systemtechnik GmbH addition, it is already one of the most innovative German this field. The capital region is now home to approximately Spremberg-Welzow 27 Swissbit Germany AG 63 HTW Berlin – University of Applied Sciences industrial sectors and has the highest value added ratio 210 companies that manufacture electronic and electrical 17 28 Schleicher Electronic Berlin GmbH 64 Technische Universität Berlin of all major industrial sectors, at 44 percent. The Ber- engineering products, with about 30,000 employees. Elec- 29 Yacoub Automation GmbH 65 Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik lin-Brandenburg capital region is among the birthplaces tronic products from the local area are in use in all of the (FBH) 30 Witt GmbH Industrieelektronik of the German electronics industry. Names like Siemens, high-tech clusters presented in the capital region. Dresden 66 Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences Praha Prague 31 Ametek CTS Europe GmbH 67 Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute 32 Schneider Electric GmbH 68 Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration Electronic components Güterverkehrszentrum mit Associations Wissenschafts- und 33 IEB Industrie Elektronik Brandenburg AG SelectedTerm companiesinal für de inn theKo mbinierten Berlin Tegel International Airport (TXL) Federal highway Siedlung Forschungseinrichtung 69 German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (ZVEI), industryLadungsverkehr State highway 34 Industrieelektronik Brandenburg GmbH Autobahn Berlin state office Berlin Schönefeld International Airport (SXF), in the Railroad 35 Yamaichi Electronics Deutschland Manufacturing GmbH 70 Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA), Research institutions future Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) Inland waterway for freightBun shippingdesstrasse Binnenhafen 36 MAZ Mikroelektronik-Anwenderzentrum im Land Brandenburg GmbH capital city office State border Logistikstandort Bahnstrecke 37 SRM Technik GmbH & SRM Printtechnik GmbH & Co. KG Associations Commercial airports District border 71 German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) Border crossing Binnenwasserstraße 38 ANDUS ELECTRONIC GmbH Internationaler Flughafen 72 VDE Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies mit Güterverkehr 39 TES Frontdesign GmbH 73 Association of German Engineers (VDI) – Berlin and Brandenburg Logistikstandort mit Landesgrenze 40 P&R Gerätetechnik GmbH Schwedt state association Terminal für den Kombinierten Ladungsverkehr Grenzübergang Kreisgrenze