10. March 2010

Berlin Adlershof - Facts and Figures

March 2010

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 Science and Technology Park with 400 companies, eleven non-university research institutes and six scientific institutes of the Humboldt University in Berlin. The companies and the non-university scientific institutes focus on:

Photonics and Optics
Microsystems and Materials
IT- and Media
Bio Technology and Environment
Photovoltaics

In close proximity to science and technology are shops, hotels, restaurants and a park of 66 hectares. Altogether, Adlershof is the workplace of 14,000 people and 6,800 students.

Area:     1,038 acres
Staff:      14,000
Companies:     819
Scientific Institutes:   17
Investments (1991 - 2009): approx. 1.8 billion EUR
Revenues of businesses and budgets of science facilities: 1.789 billion EUR (including subsidies and third-party funds)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARK
Companies:    399 - New additions 2009:  36
Employees:    4,740
Turnover 2008:   469 million EUR (subsidies: 5,4 %)

Non-university scientific Institutions: 11
Employees: 1,670 - of which scientists: 900
Basic funding: 115 million Euro / Third-party-funding: 52 million EUR

Institutes of Humboldt-University of Berlin: 6
(Institute for Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Geography and Psychology)
Employees: 893 (of those Professors: 130)
Students: 6,800
Basic financing: 34,5 million EUR / Third-party-funding: 20,5 million EUR

MEDIA CITY
Companies: 139 - New additions 2009: 12
Employees: 1,770 (including freelancers)
Revenues 2009: 176,4 million EUR

TRADE AND SERVICE
Companies: 281 - New additions 2009: 62 Employees: 5,000
Revenues 2009: 889 million EUR (364 million Solon SE)

Contact
Dr. Peter Strunk
Executive Manager Public Relations WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH
Rudower Chaussee 17, D-12489 Berlin
Phone: ++49 (0)30 6392-2225
Fax: ++49 (0)30 6392-2199
Email: strunk(at)wista.de