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Co-working space in the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre © Urve Liivak

02.05.2023

More attractive than working from home

WISTA is testing new spatial concepts for hybrid working:

Performing knowledge-based work decentrally – be it in a home office, on the road, or at a café – can be convenient. But it also has its disadvantages. It makes teamwork, social interaction, stimulating discussions,…

30.08.2022

For a healthier working environment

The start-up DearEmployee analyses the company culture and derives recommendations for action:

More and more companies are committed to creating healthier working conditions – faced with a shortage of skilled workers, they do so also to remain attractive. The Berlin-based start-up DearEmployee offers an ideal…

28.02.2022

“Everybody feels more comfortable”

How diversity impacts on a positive company culture:

A stronger focus on diversity can be fruitful for an entire company. Two companies, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies GmbH and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, have also experienced this, albeit in different ways. Jennifer…

02.06.2021

Nostos Genomics enters into partnership with Genomenon

Jointly, the companies aim to accelerate the diagnosis of genetic diseases:

Nostos Genomics, a company based at the CHIC Charlottenburg Innovation Centre, announced a partnership with Genomenon, which includes integration of the Mastermind® Genomic Search Engine into the company’s…

Tobias Kirschnick © WISTA Management GmbH

14.01.2021

New formats for the exchange with start-ups

The coronavirus pandemic has also affected the work of start-up and innovation centres:

These are turbulent, crazy times. Rarely has an issue dominated all areas of work and life as much as the coronavirus. Start-ups and other developing companies are being hit particularly hard by the resulting…

14.01.2021

Using 3D printing effectively

3YOURMIND is one of today's leading providers of software solutions for industrial 3D printing:

From start-up to big player: 3YOURMIND offers software solutions for additive manufacturing. The company now had to leave the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC). The Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC) is…

09.04.2020

WISTA launches B2B-Platform during the corona crisis

Support with personnel, equipment, material, know-how etc...:

The economic situation during the Corona pandemic is a huge challenge for many companies. Some companies have to go on short-time work while others work extra shifts. In this difficult situation, we want to offer a…

Lars Hansen, Head of the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre CHIC © WISTA Management GmbH

07.01.2020

From founders to entrepreneurs

Interview with Lars Hansen, the head of CHIC:

The Charlottenburg Innovation Centre CHIC is now home to nearly 60 start-ups. The building complex close to Berlin’s Ernst-Reuter-Platz is part of Berlin Campus Charlottenburg, one of the largest inner-city university…

02.11.2009

“We don’t take just anybody”

In his professional career Gerhard Raetz has had a lot to do with business plans: Nearly twenty years ago he wrote his first one. It was “torn into tiny pieces” by the bank. Nonetheless something did come of the idea: A startup centre that has now accompanied over 350 company setups and will be celebrating its “age of majority” this year.:

With a remarkable resemblance to stone barracks with annexe modernised to western standards the low built structure caused mixed feelings among the assembled press on the day it was opened on 11th September 1991. In a…