News from the CHIC

ABB acquires software company Cassantec

Advanced, automated analytics capabilities of Cassantec enables customers to improve operational efficiency with potential for significant savings :

ABB’s industry-leading Ellipse® Asset Performance Management (APM) solution (part of the company’s Digital Enterprise portfolio) has been enriched with strengthened prognostic capabilities. The new functionality…

HELLA Aglaia has aquired start-up company Pyramics

Pyramics technology enables demographic customer and visitor counting :

Berlin technology firm HELLA Aglaia Mobile Vision GmbH, one of the leading developers of intelligent visual sensor systems, has acquired the start-up company Pyramics. The addition of Pyramics will enhance the…

A pipeline full of ideas

Two start-ups from the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre CHIC are making our lives easier and more convenient:

Sebastian Denef is a workaholic. Nevertheless, he is convinced that we will all be working less in the near future. How do those two things reconcile? Just last year, he was a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute…

Hitachi uses advanced prognostic algorithms of Cassantec AG

Hitachi Power Solutions launches “Prognostic Solution” to improve the prognostic accuracy of predictive diagnostics:

Hitachi Power Solutions Co. Ltd., (Hitachi Power Solutions) a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced that it launches “Prognostic Version” to help equipment operators optimize the…

Wireless experts from R3Coms win the Fog Tank Award

EchoRing ™ system convinces the jury in San Francisco:

After this year’s hot spring that included winning the IEIC IoT Challenge in Shenzhen, China, R3 Communications (R3Coms) faces a variety of hot moments this fall – the first happened yesterday by winning another…

R3Coms’ EchoRing™ system is nominated for two awards

This April is a special month for R3 Communications (R3Coms): from April 9th-12th, Managing Director Mathias Bohge will represent the company at the "2nd China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International…

It doesn’t get any cooler

A start-up is developing an off-grid refrigerator:

32-year-old Julia Römer is the CEO of Coolar UG and one of the few female founders in the technology sector. Since 2012, she and her team have been developing refrigerators, which run without electricity, have no CO2…

New Chemistry Lab for Start-ups

Inauguration of the Inkulab at the TU Berlin’s Charlottenburg Campus:

On 25 January 2017 the Inkulab – a laboratory container system, fully equipped with a ventilation system, and laboratory and safety facilities – was inaugurated at the TU Berlin’s Charlottenburg Campus. It provides…

An unusual container

Customized laboratory for start-ups / Ground-breaking ceremony for “Inkulab”:

The ground-breaking ceremony for “Inkulab” was celebrated on the Charlottenburg campus of Technische Universität Berlin on August 26, 2016. By October of this year, a laboratory container, fully equipped with a…

Start-ups on the fast lane

The new Adlershof Accelerator promotes new companies in a number of sectors:

There are accelerator programmes all over Europe. They help start-ups to enter markets at record speed. And both national and international companies are focusing heavily on Berlin: this city is the federal and…

Incubation programme for university researchers

Support for university researchers in the life sciences, green chemistry, and nanotechnology:

The subject of entrepreneurship has long been a course of study. All of Berlin’s universities have set up a start-up service. This advises graduates and postgraduates who have published commercially exploitable…

New asset in the land of ideas

Incubators build bridges between science and research on the one side and the market on the other:

Incubators provide the ideal conditions for the initial steps into business life. This has been working for a long time in Adlershof, so Berlin is now relying on the knowhow of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH when setting up…

“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…