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Location
Main cities: Bremen, Bremerhaven
The Federal State of Bremen consisting of the Free Hanseatic City
of Bremen and the City of Bremerhaven located in the North West of
Germany with Bremerhaven as gate-way to Europe being world-ranking
seaport near the North Sea.
Co-ordination
Bremer Innovations-Agentur GmbH
Conny Hamann
Kontorhaus am Markt
Langenstrasse 2-4
28195 Bremen
Germany
Tel.: +49 421 96 00 323; Fax: +49 421 96 00 8323
e-mail: hamann@bia-bremen.de;
http://www.bia-bremen.de
Business Location
From a traditional trading center whereas shipbuilding
and the ports used to be the cornerstone of Bremen´s economy,
the city is now evolving into a pioneering business location with
great technological expertise.
The spectrum of the business activities ranges from
the automobile right through to aerospace and aviation industry, a
vast variety of food, beverage and tobacco industry to EDP and satellite-assisted
logistics, from micro-systems engineering to simulation systems to
satellite construction, the T.I.M.E. sector and environmental engineering
to laser technology to pioneering service enterprises.
Bremen is home to the second-largest DaimlerChrysler
production plant in Europe, with a workforce of 16.000 and annual
production volume of 250,000 automobiles of the C-Class models, T-Model
and SL Roadster.
Economic Data
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Federal State of Bremen |
Germany |
| area |
404 qkm |
357.022 qkm |
| population |
659.845 |
82,037.000 |
| unemployment rate |
16,6 % |
12,3 % |
| employees |
386.500 |
32,658.200 |
| employees within a radius of 60 km |
309.000 |
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| agriculture |
0,4 % |
2,3 % |
| industry |
24,1 % |
29,4 % |
| service |
75,5 % |
68,3 % |
Participation in EU-Programmes
36,9% of the population lives in target region 2
The target region covers 50,3% of the total region
Max Planck Institute
Max Planck Institute for Marine Micro Biology
Economy Sectors
- aerospace and aviation
- automobile production
- food and beverages
- marine biotechnology
- health economics
- port and transport logistics; shipyards
- mobile cooperative work (t.i.m.e. sector)
- wind energy
Main Companies
- Airbus
- Kellogg's
- Astrium
- Kraft Foods
- Beck's
- Lufthansa
- Daimler Chrysler
Incubators
Technology Transfer
The network of technology transfer organisations, include:
- Axon Technologie Consult GmbH
- BIA Bremen Innovation Agency
- Chamber of Commerce Bremen
- Design Center Bremen
- Transfer offices at universities of Bremen
Services offered by STRINNOP – Partner BIA
Innovation support for existing SME´s:
- Technology funding
- Funding and monitoring of innovative projects
- Installation of cooperation projects, clustering
of competencies
- Supply of infrastructure of technology centers
Innovation support for start-ups:
- start-up funding
- supply of infrastructure of technology centers
- Information for decision-makers and journalists
Publications
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