Facts & Figures
Where business and research communities grow in tandem ...
Under the banner of “Growing in tandem”, the Bremen Technology Park has developed into one of Germany’s leading centres of high technology since its creation 20 years ago. Here you find big-names companies, like Siemens and OHB, working side-by-side with top-calibre research institutes, such as Max-Planck and Fraunhofer. More than 400 enterprises with a combined workforce of more than 6,000 work here on a site almost 170 hectares in size.
With a diversified sectoral mix comprising information and communication technologies, aerospace, logistics, materials, microsystem and production engineering, sensor technology and nanotechnology, a centre of high technology among the most successful of its kind has come into being around the city’s university. Beyond the university itself, world-class research is conducted here in more than 20 research facilities and institutes.
... the most effective ideas are born
Synergies are generated in places where the business community can meet up with academia, the research community and high-tech enterprises. The Bremen Technology Park combines world-class research institutes, high-performance companies and highly skilled workforces to form an exceptionally innovative community.
Entrepreneurs, academics, students and start-up entrepreneurs work here side by side. Contacts are forged, and active networks are formed. In the Bremen Technology Park, business and academia do not just meet – they coalesce to form a new world of cross-fertilisation and communication, in which everyone stands to gain.
The Technology Park in figures
- Location: eastern part of Bremen, by the A27 motorway, Horn-Lehe exit
- Area: 170 ha
- 400 companies employing more than 6,000 people
- The University of Bremen with over 3,000 staff and around 20,000 students
- 20 academic and research establishments with around 1,000 employees in total
