Berlin Adlershof - Facts and Figures
March 2011
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 425 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 14,100 people and 7,800 students.
Area: 1,038 acres
Staff: 14,148
Companies: 866
Scientific Institutes: 17
Investments (1991 - 2010): approx. 1.8 billion EUR
Revenues of businesses and budgets of science facilities: 2.1 billion EUR (including subsidies and third-party funds)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARK
Companies: 425 - New additions 2010: 46
Employees: 4,908
Turnover 2010: 580.2 million EUR (subsidies: 6.4 %)
Non-university scientific Institutions: 11
Employees: 1,701
Basic funding: 119.5 million Euro / Third-party-funding: 53.4 million EUR
Institutes of Humboldt-University of Berlin: 6
(Institute for Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Geography and Psychology)
Employees: 925
Students: 7,874
Basic financing: 39 million EUR / Third-party-funding: 20,5 million EUR
MEDIA CITY
Companies: 139
Employees: 1,734 (including freelancers)
Revenues 2010: 176.7 million EUR
TRADE AND SERVICE
Companies: 302
Employees: 5,000
Revenues 2010: 1,163 billion EUR (incl. Solon SE)
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