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Accelerating innovation
The Adlershofer Accelerator A2 inspect new energie ideas:
Longstanding major corporations and start-ups generally speak different languages. The company culture is just as varied as the speed at which the two move both internally and in the marketplace. However, the ideas of…
District heating with sun power
„Wohnen am Campus“ energy efficient housing in Adlershof:
An innovative low-temperature grid provides the residents of „Wohnen am Campus“in Adlershof with environmentally friendly, low-cost heat. The trick is that the grid draws surplus heat from individual solar…
Smart windows
New ideas in glass:
Large windows in modern architecture offer more than aesthetics; they also capture light and heat, and thereby save energy. Large panes of glass carry disadvantages along with all their advantages. They limit the…
The power transmission path as a biotope
Make flora and fauna ecologically and economically sensible in power lines:
The energy revolution is heightening the problem of energy transport. As the grid expands accordingly, public interest is growing with respect to the presence of power transmission paths and their impact on their…
Large railway station for automation
HERMOS Group combine data points for regulators, switches and sensors from various manufacturers:
People rushing to catch a train at Berlin Central Station have little time to admire the building technology of this major hub where more than one thousand local, regional and long-distance trains interconnect. The…
A Smarter Kind of Lamp
Street lamps of the future become power-saving multifunctional network nodes:
Electrical lighting first came to the capital city in 1882, but it took nearly 50 years before the street lamps were fully electrified in the 1930s. Today, more than 220,000 street lamps light up Berlin at night. The…
Turbopumps and diaphragm pumps utilized in laboratory technology, analytics and biotechnology
Lightweight for mobile applications / High compression for light gases / Reduces energy consumption by up to 90 percent:
Pfeiffer Vacuum, a leading global supplier of vacuum technology, will be introducing new turbopumps and new diaphragm pumps at the analytica show in Munich from May 10 to May 13. HiPace 30: Smallest, high…
5th. International Evening in Adlershof الأمسية الدولية
On the 20th of April 2016, WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH had greeted refugees and supporters from companies and institutions in the Science and Technology Park Berlin Adlershof. This event was the 5th International Evening…
Bessel Prize for Prof. Dr. Gabriele Travaglini
45.000 EUR for research at the institute of physics and IRIS Adlershof:
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Travaglini from Queen Mary University London receives the Friedrich-Wilhelm Bessel Prize from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. The prize will enable him to spend one year of research at the…
Work smarter - LUM and the New Generation of High Pressure Homogenizers
LUM GmbH starts exclusive distribution of PSI-homogenizers in several countries:
With immediate effect LUM GmbH, Berlin, Germany, starts the exclusive distribution of PSI instruments in Germany, Austria, France and China. The distributorship agreement between the manufacturer Particle Solutions…
Adlershof start-up UVphotonics awarded with Leibniz-Gründerpreis 2016
UV photonics will bring innovative UV-LED technology to market:
FBH's start-up company UVphotonics NT GmbH has been awarded with the Leibniz-Gründerpreis (Founder Award) 2016. The prize is endowed with 50,000 Euro and is intended to help promising start-up companies with their…
Measuring chemistry
Local fingerprint of hydrogen bonding captured in experiments:
A team from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has been able for the first time to measure how new bonds influence molecules: they have reconstructed the “energy landscape” of acetone molecules using measurement data from the…
Recharge invests in Graciosa Project
Green investor takes majority stake in the 24 million Euro Younicos system:
The game-changing approach we are pioneering on the island of Graciosa has convinced Recharge A/S, a Danish financial investor focused on sustainable and green energy systems with strong impact potential, to take a…
Thomas Elsaesser is the 2016 recipient of the Ellis R. Lippincott Award
Director at the Max-Born-Institute is honored for his seminal research contributions:
Thomas Elsaesser, Director at the Max-Born-Institute and Professor for Experimental Physics at Humboldt University, Berlin, receives the Ellis R. Lippincott Award for his “seminal contributions to the understanding…
Berlin Adlershof: Facts and Figures
The Berlin Adlershof Science City is one of the most successful high-technology sites in Germany and Berlin’s largest media site. It is home to 1,013 companies and scientific institutions (Jan 2016) on an area of 4.2…
Adlershof Journal March/April 2016
Catwalk of Things: the Fascination of Form and Function:
Industrial Design That Will Outlive Our Grandchildren: Trends in Product Design // A Moveable Office: Experts for interior design set up shop // The Perfect Illusion: The camera robot Milo Long Arm steals the show…
Couches and Chameleons
Design is ingrained in our everyday life:
Essay by Norman Kietzmann, a freelance journalist for architecture, design, and fashion. He lives and works in Milan. There’s no way around it. Regardless of where we travel, how we live, how we dress, or what we do…
Digital Design
Stephanie Kannegießer develops video games in Adlershof:
Becoming a make-up artist was also an option for Stephanie Kannegießer. “I always enjoyed being creative,” she says. After finishing school in Freiburg, she moved into a shared flat and met a nice young man who…
Design Is a Must
Adlershof companies are balancing form and function:
Good industrial design bridges the gap between fine form and first-class function. Well-designed devices are user-friendly and enjoyable. Not every designer succeeds in accomplishing this. However, many companies on…
Industrial Design That Will Outlive Our Grandchildren
Product design should be robust and timeless so that products last for several life cycles:
A small number of industrial countries are using up the earth’s raw material deposits. According to Professor Sebastian Feucht from the University of Applied Sciences Berlin, this is partly caused by deficient product…