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INVESTMENT GUIDE Baden-Württemberg INVESTMENT GUIDE Baden-Württemberg N W 48° 32‘ 15.9“ N 09° 02‘ 28.21“ E E S FACTS AND FIGURES 35.674 km2 land area 10% of Germany 11 million inhabitants 13% of the population of Germany Largest cities: Stuttgart / Karlsruhe Mannheim Freiburg / Heidelberg Ulm / Heilbronn Pforzheim / Reutlingen EUR 511 billion Gross Domestic Product 15% of Germany’s GDP EUR 46,279 per inhabitant EUR 203 billion export volume EUR 28 billion for research and development within Baden-Württemberg Figures valid for: 2017 / 2018 Source: State office of statistics Baden-Württemberg 04 Investment guide Baden-Württemberg Selected global players from Baden-Württemberg Sector: Mechanical engineering Company headquarters: Heidelberg Sector: Sale of assembly and fastening materials Sector: Software Company headquarters: Künzelsau Company headquarters: Walldorf Mannheim Heidelberg Sector: Mechanical engineering Company headquarters: Waiblingen Sector: Automotive Company headquarters: Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen Heilbronn Sector: Cleaning technology Karlsruhe Company headquarters: Winnenden Pforzheim Sector: Mechanical engineering Company headquarters: Ditzingen Stuttgart Sector: Automation technology Company headquarters: Esslingen am Neckar Reutlingen Ulm Sector: Technology and services Company headquarters: Stuttgart Sector: Textiles Company headquarters: Metzingen Sector: Automotive Freiburg Company headquarters: Stuttgart Sector: Automotive supplier Company headquarters: Friedrichshafen Investment guide Baden-Württemberg 05 Selected international companies located in Baden-Württemberg Sector: Information technology Sector: Automotive supplier Company headquarters: USA Company headquarters: Canada Location in BW: Ehningen Location in BW: Heilbronn Sector: Information technology Sector: Tyres Company headquarters: USA Company headquarters: France Location in BW: Böblingen Location in BW: Karlsruhe Sector: Energy and automation technology Sector: Conglomerate Company headquarters: Switzerland Company headquarters: South Korea Location in BW: Mannheim Location in BW: Stuttgart Sector: Pharmaceutical industry Company headquarters: Switzerland Sector: Consumer goods production Location in BW: Mannheim, Grenzach, Company headquarters: USA Waiblingen Location in BW: Crailsheim Sector: Automotive supplier Sector: Electronics manufacturing Company headquarters: India Company headquarters: Japan Location in BW: Bötzingen Location in BW: Neuhausen auf den Fildern Sector: Drive and energy solutions Company headquarters: United Kingdom Location in BW: Friedrichshafen 06 Investment guide Baden-Württemberg Contents Innovation made in Baden-Württemberg 08 The state of inventors and thinkers 09 Business location Baden-Württemberg: diverse and well connected 11 Baden-Württemberg: innovation region number 1 14 Infrastructure in Baden-Württemberg 18 A nice rock-solid basis for successful, sustainable business opportunities 19 Economic strength through sectoral diversity 28 Mechanical engineering 29 Mobility sector 32 Healthcare industry 36 Information and communication technology and creative industries 38 Environmental technologies 40 Sustainable construction 43 Future technologies 45 Founding a company 47 Founding a company in Germany 48 Founding and registering a company 50 Company taxation 53 People as a success factor 54 School education in Baden-Württemberg 55 Studying in Baden-Württemberg 58 The state with the most closely knit network of research institutions 62 Alliance of skilled staff – working together for skilled staff 66 Investment guide Baden-Württemberg 07 Quality of life – welcome home 67 World market leader among world market leaders 68 A family matter 70 Leisure time activities 71 Quality of life – where Germany is at its most beautiful 72 Not only one holiday paradise, but many 73 A world of art and culture 78 Extremely delicious here 79 Funding schemes 80 Contact 81 Funding schemes 82 L-Bank technology parks 84 Financing consultation days for founders, new owners and entrepreneurs 86 Important terms 87 Contact addresses 88 Legal notices 95 08 Innovation made in Baden-Württemberg Investment guide Baden-Württemberg TÜBINGEN 48° 32' 10.9" N 09° 03' 29.8" E Innovation made in Baden-Württemberg THIS ROBOT GIVES manual work A NEW MEANING. Cyber Valley Artificial intelligence has found a centre. Partners from the worlds of science and industry are research- ing and developing intelli- gent systems. Investment guide Baden-Württemberg Innovation made in Baden-Württemberg 09 THE STATE 1832 OF INVENTORS AND The match, THINKERS invented by Jakob F. Kammerer The people of Baden-Württemberg have always known how to make a virtue of neces- 1886 sity. A state with few natural resources Tricycle with petrol engine, needs people with good ideas. invented by Carl Benz Numerous inventions from Baden-Würt- temberg have changed the world. First 1895 and foremost the automobile, which was Zeppelin, invented by invented in 1886, but also everyday things Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin such as document files, matches, wall plugs, the electric drill – and even the permanent wave. 1897 Aspirin, The number of Nobel laureates hailing invented by Felix Hoffmann from the region shows that Baden-Würt- temberg is not only a state of inventors, but of thinkers, too. The state has also produced some of the most famous philos- ophers, poets and writers. 1948 “Pustefix” soap bubbles, invented by Rolf Hein 1958 Fischer wall plugs, invented by Artur Fischer Artur Fischer, a real inventor Born in Tumlingen in 1919 Artur Fischer ranks among the most successful 1972 inventors worldwide. In addition to the Fischer wall SAP software, invented by plug, the Baden-Württemberger registered more Claus Wellenreuther, Hans-Werner Hector, than 5,000 industrial property rights. The story of Klaus Tschira, Dietmar Hopp and Hasso Plattner his success is a good example of the state’s inventive spirit. Today, the company Fischer sells 15.5 million fixing and fastening products daily and is still family- 2016 owned. Smallest multi-articulating hand prosthesis, invented by vincentsystems 10 Innovation made in Baden-Württemberg Investment guide Baden-Württemberg Poets and thinkers born in Baden-Württemberg Nobel laureates from Baden-Württemberg Johannes Kepler Albert Einstein Born in Weil der Stadt in 1571 Born in Ulm in 1879 Natural philosopher, Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 mathematician, astronomer, Field of research: astrologer, optician and theologian Explanation of the photoelectric effect – to substantiate quantum theory Johann Christoph Otto Warburg Friedrich von Schiller Born in Freiburg i. Breisgau in 1883 Born in Marbach a. Neckar in 1759 Nobel Prize in Medicine 1931 Poet, philosopher and historian Field of research: Discovery of the mechanism of cellular respiration Georg Wilhelm Christiane Friedrich Hegel Nüsslein-Volhard Born in Stuttgart in 1770 Born in Marburg in 1942 Philosopher and most important Nobel Prize in Medicine 1995 representative of German idealism Field of research: Genetic control of early embryonic development Hermann Hesse Born in Calw in 1877 Gerhard Ertl Writer, poet and painter Born in Stuttgart in 1936 and Nobel Prize Laureate Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 in Literature 1946 Field of research: for his complete works Development of a method of extremely accurate measurement by means of lasers Sources: gettyimages, nobelprize.org, tuebingen.mpg.de Investment guide Baden-Württemberg Innovation made in Baden-Württemberg 11 BUSINESS LOCATION BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG: DIVERSE AND WELL CONNECTED Baden-Württemberg has around 110 clusters and Cluster initiatives help companies to boost their cluster initiatives from 30 different sectors from productivity, increase their innovative ability and aluminium processing to packaging design. This encourage competitiveness. Foreign investors also sectoral diversity reflects the multiplicity of Baden- benefit from existing regional networks, as they pro- Württemberg’s economy. Moreover, looking at the vide them with the opportunity to quickly establish regional cluster map, the clusters are distributed contact with all the relevant players in their sector across the entire state, thus demonstrating its or technological field. economic strength in both urban and rural areas. With its cluster policy, the state of Baden-Württem- berg aims to drive the establishment of sustainable and long-term self-sustaining structures and An overview of the state’s clusters support each cluster’s players with needs-oriented and cluster initiatives is available at: assistance in the ongoing process of development Cluster Agentur Baden-Württemberg and professionalisation. A concrete instrument clusterportal-bw.de for achieving these goals is Baden-Württemberg’s cluster agency, a service provider for cluster initia- tives, statewide networks and cluster policy within the state that acts as a partner of cluster manage- ment and cluster initiatives and helps them in their efforts to continually improve. 12 Innovation made in Baden-Württemberg Investment guide Baden-Württemberg Region Rhine-Neckar Region Heilbronn-Franconia Region Middle Upper Rhine Region Stuttgart Region East Württemberg Region North Black Forest Region Neckar-Alb Region Donau-Iller Region Region South Black Forest - Upper Rhine Baar-Heuberg Region Lake Constance-Upper Swabia Region High Rhine-Lake Constance Regional cluster map of Baden-Württemberg 2018 Source: clusterportal-bw.de Investment guide Baden-Württemberg Innovation made in Baden-Württemberg 13 Heilbronn-Franconia