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Ministry for Economics, Labour and Niedersachsen inventions Niedersachsen notes: Niedersachsen’s top 10 export countries Transport of Niedersachsen

1697 in Hannover: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents • the second-largest of ’s federal states, covering almost Export in Mio. Euro (2014) Source: Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Statistik 2015 the binary system, and thus made possible the 50,000 km² development of modern calculating machines and • 8 million inhabitants, state capital: Hannover computers (1697) • served by more than 1,400 km of international motorway and a dense network (over 4,700 km) of national highways 1833 in and Göttingen: Carl • at the crossroads of the European transport axes from Scandinavia Friedrich Gauß, mathematician and physicist, to Italy and from Amsterdam/Paris/London via Berlin and Warsaw to establishes the world’s first telegraph con- Moscow nection while conducting electromagnetic • Hannover Airport: over 5 million passengers a year to 116 destina- experiments tions in Germany, Europe and the world 1887 in Hannover: Emil Berliner invented the • 300 km of coast, 9 international seaports, 17 inland 7.243 6.159 6.149 4.644 4.006 3.659 3.540 3.203 3.133 2.836 record and the gramophone ports and more municipal harbours

• around 1,100 km of waterways UK Italy USA Spain

• more than 4,100 km rail network France Austria

2014 in Göttingen: Nobel laureate Stefan Hell Belgium • 8 railway stations on the high speed network invents STED microscopy, revolutionising light • 13 universities and higher education institutions, 16 state and Netherlands microscopy and making possible new insights of state-recognised universities of applied arts and sciences living cells Niedersachsen „Great place to work … Niedersachsen“ Your direct line for fast results Some ‘made in Niedersachsen’ networks Our services: Your business location ”What I like about Niedersachsen is the way Automotive: www.automotivecluster.com we turn good ideas into innovative products, in • Independent, free advice on the market, framework conditions and Lightweight construction: www.cfk-valley.com demand all over the world.” funding possibilities Food industry: www.ernaehrungswirtschaft.de Martin Winterkorn • Location scouting: industry-specific location search, first contact service www.dil-ev.de; www.mg-niedersachsen.de Chairman of the Board and CEO, AG, • Support and advice on investment realisation Life Science: www.bioregion.de • Introductions to networks Maritime Industry: www.maritimes-cluster-nord.de “What I appreciate about Niedersachsen: the www.seaports.de people here whose personal commitment, staying Wind power: www.forwind.de; www.wab.net power and down-to-earth common sense are Contact: making the energy turnaround happen.” Irina Lucke Ministry for Economics, Labour and Transport of Niedersachsen CEO, EWE Offshore Service & Solutions GmbH Foreign Trade, Investment Promotion, International Marketing – Major international flagship trade fairs Referat 25 ”For the last 70 years we’ve been developing CeBIT, the world’s largest IT fair with 210,000 visitors, more than innovative audio technology in the Wedemark near Friedrichswall 1 20% of them from abroad, and 3,400 exhibitors from 70 countries Hannover which, as an important trade fair and D-30159 Hannover Land of Energy. HANNOVER MESSE, the most important industrial trade fair in university city and now a UNESCO ‘City of Music’, Phone: +49 (0)511 120-5572 the world, with 180,000 visitors in 2014, a quarter of them from provides us with an international and musical set- E-Mail: [email protected] abroad, and 5,000 exhibitors from 100 countries – in the age of ting – something that’s very important to our work.” Web: www.nds.de Industry 4.0 still the principal marketplace Andreas and Daniel Sennheiser AGRITECHNICA, the world’s largest specialist fair for farming Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG, Wedemark © Images: Title: Volkswagen AG, JadeWeserPort, Fotolia (2); technology, with 2,900 exhibitors from 47 countries and 450,000 Page 6: G. W. Leibniz Bibliothek, Dt. Grammophon GmbH, J. Bückers, D. Wildanger, L. Kastrup and R. Medda, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry; Page 7: Fotolia (2); visitors from all over the world Page 8: Sennheiser electronics, Land Niedersachsen

Stand: 03.2015 Welcome to Niedersachsen! More energy! Legend • Leading energy state, generating more Maritime industry electricity from wind power than any other • 9 Seaports, including deep-water Container German state Terminal Wilhelmshaven, and 17 inland • Eight harbour locations with infrastructure ports and site potential for the offshore wind • More shipping companies than any other power industry German state Airport • Excellent wind power research • 20 shipyards, European leaders in e.g. cruise • Entire value chain for the wind power liner construction sector in place • 40 maritime research facilities HAMBURG ICE railway station NORDDEICH SCHWERIN Seaport WILHELMSHAVEN NORDENHAM BUXTEHUDE Deep-water Container

EMDEN Terminal Wilhelmshaven

BRAKE New materials: light, lighter, ultra-light Federal motorway ELSFLETH • Lightweight construction: Europe’s leading CFRP LÜNEBURG manufacturing location in Stade BREMEN • CFRP research for aerospace, automobile construc- Federal motorway tion and wind power in the planning PAPENBURG • Research into hybrid materials at the Open Hybrid Niedersachsen is at the heart of Europe and on Germany’s North Sea LabFactory, Wolfsburg coast – two factors that make our state a very attractive location for • Advanced applications for innovative new materials Important railway line in production technologies many companies. They especially value our exceptionally well-developed Germany’s number one food infrastructure, fast road, rail, air and waterway connections with both production: taste the future here! Railway line • Development, production and processing of safe, national and international markets – and the international trade fair city European leader in the in the planning high-quality foodstuffs for the future of Hannover is a magnet to business people worldwide. • Second-largest branch of the Niedersachsen automotive industry economy • Niedersachsen’s industrial base: the automobile University / University of • High-tech agricultural and food industry industry and its suppliers As a business location Niedersachsen has much to offer: Europe’s biggest • German Institute of Food Technologies in Quaken- • Volkswagen Group, Europe’s largest automobile Applied Sciences brück: International FoodTec Award 2015 in Gold manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, produced over 10 motor manufacturer Volkswagen is based here; our second-largest for ‘High Moisture Extrusion’ process million cars in 2014 (related to economics) economic sector, the food industry, develops and produces high-quality • ‘Automotive Nord’: internationalisation, innovation and industry 4.0 in a new network of around 220 foodstuffs for the future; Niedersachsen’s shipbuilders are highly special- NEUSTADT AM NORDHORN companies in the automotive supply sector ised, and Meyer Werft leads Europe in the construction of the largest LINGEN RÜBENBERGE LANGENHAGEN and most modern cruise liners; in Stade, components for the world’s GARBSEN HANNOVER largest airliner are built; Niedersachsen is Germany’s number one wind WOLFSBURG power state, home to one of the world’s largest wind turbine manu- facturers, GmbH in Aurich. And along with many other global OSNABRÜCK MELLE players and hidden champions, Niedersachsen has a strong, interna- BRAUNSCHWEIG tionally active SME economy. More than a great place to work, though, WOLFENBÜTTEL Niedersachsen is also a great place to live and visit, with variety of tourist HAMELN attractions unique in Germany, from summer beaches to winter sports. World-class high tech: This folder will give you some first impressions of our state as a business life sciences and medical tchnology location. If you’d like to know more you will be most welcome in • 80% of all hearing aids use technology from Niedersachsen Niedersachsen. • Internationally positioned life science enterprises set the pace and the agenda with innovative CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD developments in medical- and biotechnology Yours • Clusters of Excellence: ‘Rebirth’, ‘hearing4all’, ‘Nanoscale Microscopy’ • Life science focus regions in Hannover, Göttingen, Braunschweig and Oldenburg Olaf Lies Minister for Economics, GÖTTINGEN Labour and Transport of Niedersachsen

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Ministry for Economics, Labour and Niedersachsen inventions Niedersachsen notes: Niedersachsen’s top 10 export countries Transport of Niedersachsen

1697 in Hannover: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents • the second-largest of Germany’s federal states, covering almost Export in Mio. Euro (2014) Source: Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Statistik 2015 the binary system, and thus made possible the 50,000 km² development of modern calculating machines and • 8 million inhabitants, state capital: Hannover computers (1697) • served by more than 1,400 km of international motorway and a dense network (over 4,700 km) of national highways 1833 in Braunschweig and Göttingen: Carl • at the crossroads of the European transport axes from Scandinavia Friedrich Gauß, mathematician and physicist, to Italy and from Amsterdam/Paris/London via Berlin and Warsaw to establishes the world’s first telegraph con- Moscow nection while conducting electromagnetic • Hannover Airport: over 5 million passengers a year to 116 destina- experiments tions in Germany, Europe and the world 1887 in Hannover: Emil Berliner invented the • 300 km of North Sea coast, 9 international seaports, 17 inland 7.243 6.159 6.149 4.644 4.006 3.659 3.540 3.203 3.133 2.836 record and the gramophone ports and more municipal harbours

• around 1,100 km of waterways UK Italy USA Spain China

• more than 4,100 km rail network France Poland Austria

2014 in Göttingen: Nobel laureate Stefan Hell Belgium • 8 railway stations on the high speed network invents STED microscopy, revolutionising light • 13 universities and higher education institutions, 16 state and Netherlands microscopy and making possible new insights of state-recognised universities of applied arts and sciences living cells Niedersachsen „Great place to work … Niedersachsen“ Your direct line for fast results Some ‘made in Niedersachsen’ networks Our services: Your business location ”What I like about Niedersachsen is the way Automotive: www.automotivecluster.com we turn good ideas into innovative products, in • Independent, free advice on the market, framework conditions and Lightweight construction: www.cfk-valley.com demand all over the world.” funding possibilities Food industry: www.ernaehrungswirtschaft.de Martin Winterkorn • Location scouting: industry-specific location search, first contact service www.dil-ev.de; www.mg-niedersachsen.de Chairman of the Board and CEO, Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg • Support and advice on investment realisation Life Science: www.bioregion.de • Introductions to networks Maritime Industry: www.maritimes-cluster-nord.de “What I appreciate about Niedersachsen: the www.seaports.de people here whose personal commitment, staying Wind power: www.forwind.de; www.wab.net power and down-to-earth common sense are Contact: making the energy turnaround happen.” Irina Lucke Ministry for Economics, Labour and Transport of Niedersachsen CEO, EWE Offshore Service & Solutions GmbH Foreign Trade, Investment Promotion, International Marketing – Major international flagship trade fairs Referat 25 ”For the last 70 years we’ve been developing CeBIT, the world’s largest IT fair with 210,000 visitors, more than innovative audio technology in the Wedemark near Friedrichswall 1 20% of them from abroad, and 3,400 exhibitors from 70 countries Hannover which, as an important trade fair and D-30159 Hannover Land of Energy. HANNOVER MESSE, the most important industrial trade fair in university city and now a UNESCO ‘City of Music’, Phone: +49 (0)511 120-5572 the world, with 180,000 visitors in 2014, a quarter of them from provides us with an international and musical set- E-Mail: [email protected] abroad, and 5,000 exhibitors from 100 countries – in the age of ting – something that’s very important to our work.” Web: www.nds.de Industry 4.0 still the principal marketplace Andreas and Daniel Sennheiser AGRITECHNICA, the world’s largest specialist fair for farming Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG, Wedemark © Images: Title: Volkswagen AG, JadeWeserPort, Fotolia (2); technology, with 2,900 exhibitors from 47 countries and 450,000 Page 6: G. W. Leibniz Bibliothek, Dt. Grammophon GmbH, J. Bückers, D. Wildanger, L. Kastrup and R. Medda, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry; Page 7: Fotolia (2); visitors from all over the world Page 8: Sennheiser electronics, Land Niedersachsen

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