Berlin Adlershof - Facts and Figures
April 2012
Berlin Adlershof is one of the most successful high-tech locations in Germany. Embedded in an overall urban development concept, this integrated Science, Business and Media location has been growing on an area of 4.2 km2 since 1991. At the core of the concept is a <link wista/?L=2 _top internal-link>Science and Technology Park with 429 companies</link>, eleven <link igafa/?L=2 _top internal-link>non-university research institutes</link> and six scientific institutes of the <link hu/?L=2 _top internal-link>Humboldt University in Berlin</link>. The companies and the non-university scientific institutes focus on:
- <link photonik _top internal-link>Photonics and Optics
- <link mikro _top internal-link>Microsystems and <link mikro _top internal-link>Materials
- <link it _top internal-link>IT- and Media
- <link bio _top internal-link>Bio Technology and Environment
- <link pv _top internal-link>Photovoltaics
In close proximity to science and technology are shops, hotels, restaurants and <link park/?L=2 _top internal-link>a park of 66 hectares</link>. Altogether, Adlershof is the workplace of approx. 15,000 people and about 8,000 students.
Area: 1,038 acres
Staff: 14.968
Companies: 904
Scientific Institutes: 17
Investments (1991 - 2011): approx. 1.9 billion EUR
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARK
Companies: 429 - New additions 2011: 39
Employees: 5,080
Turnover 2011: 625.3 million EUR (subsidies: 5.6 %)
Non-university scientific Institutions: 11
Employees: 1,820
Basic funding: 120.8 million Euro / Third-party-funding: 52.8 million EUR
Institutes of Humboldt-University of Berlin: 6
(Institute for Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Geography and Psychology)
Employees: 1,004
Students: 8,034
Basic financing: 41 million EUR / Third-party-funding: 23.5 million EUR
MEDIA CITY
Companies: 138
Employees: 1,658 (including freelancers)
Revenues 2011: 172.9 million EUR
TRADE AND SERVICE
Companies: 337
Employees: 5,406
Revenues 2011: 579.3 million EUR (absent Solon SE)
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