Osnabrücker Land, Das Herz des Nordwestens / The Heart of Germany’s North West

Das Herz der Start-up-Szene | The Heart of the Start-up Scene 47
Ernährungswirtschaft und Lebensmitteltechnik im Fokus | Focus on the food industry and food technology
The Heart of the Start-up Scene
Ideal Prerequisites for Business Start-ups
Innovative business ideas and motivated company
founders are truly welcome in Osnabrück District.
Their importance for the location is illustrated not
only by the intensive unbureaucratic support that
start-ups receive in the Start-up House Osna -
brücker Land. They also find open doors in the
Innovation Centre Osnabrück (ICO) and in the
Business and Innovation Park Quakenbrück (BIQ)
in the north of the district. Furthermore, the Seedhouse
is an accelerator offering special support in
the fields of agricultural engineering, food and digitisation.
plan and budget together with funding pro -
grammes, through to more in-depth workshops.
Lectures and presentations provide information
among others about choosing the right legal form,
marketing and tax-related issues.
Space for business ideas in the Innovation
Centre
The start-up helpers are organised on a purely local
level to put them close to the needs of the business
founders and in good company with technologyoriented
firms.
Well advised in the Start-up House
The region is shaped by a strong SME sector. The
district offers successful start-up support for young
companies with a large number of measures
to support the local economy and job situation.
Experts in the Start-up House Osnabrücker Land
accompany and advise start-ups as they take the
steps involved in setting up their own business, regardless
whether this refers to working freelance,
founding a new company or a corporate succession
situation. The services offered extend from an
ideas check via advice on drawing up a business
The Start-up House is based in the Innovation
Centre Osnabrück (ICO) which opened in 2014 in
the immediate vicinity of the Westerberg campus
of the University of Applied Sciences and Osnabrück
University. The region’s technology and
start-up centre offers space for innovative businesses
and start-ups under the motto “Encountering
Ideas”. Networks enhance professional sharing and
exchange. The ICO is a joint initiative by the district
and city of Osnabrück with support from the Sparkasse
Osnabrück (bank) and Stadtwerke Osnabrück
AG (municipal utility company).