Erfolgreich im Drahtseilakt – Duisburg stellt Technologieförderung ...

A network of technology and start-up
business centres covers the Federal
Republic of Germany. Links are tightest
in the most populated federal state,
because North Rhine-Westphalia has
the densest stock of facilities for the
promotion of start-up businesses and
technology transfer in Germany.
Especially in the Ruhr Area, the cradle
of industrial revolution in Germany, the
State Government and the communes
have relied on centres, in the context of
structural change, that enforce the
transfer of technology. This is a positive
point. The negative point is: the
more centres, the greater the competition.
Meanwhile, real estate on the
market has to be profitable. Entrepreneurs,
spin-offs and young technology
enterprises as a target group do
not make the income situation easier.
Technology development – a walk on a
tightrope between red and black figures,
between vacant and fully occupied
real estate, between supportive
tactics and ice-cold calculation. Duisburg
is practising this successfully.
Technology location and development
The first building of the Technology
Park in the district of Neudorf started
operating at the end of 1987 in
Duisburg. One year earlier, a company
was founded that was supposed to
continue expanding the technology
1 Aus jeder Richtung gut erreichbar:
das Technologiezentrum Duisburg.
Excellent accessibility from any direction:
Technologiezentrum Duisburg.
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