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Adlershof's know how for achieving South Africa's climate objectives
Renewable Energy Project in Durban with the involvement of WISTA-MANAGEMENT
1 Purpose The report provides the Executive Committee with a summary of the Renewable Energy Development Hub (RED Hub-KZN) that is being proposed for development in eThekwini Municipal Area. 2 Synopsis The REDHub-KZN Project is a private initiative by the German based company IKD-International and ARDOR SA Limited supported by WISTA-Adlershof, City of Science, Technology and Media, the most innovative Techno Hub in Europe, leading German... [more]
STEP Award 2012
New Deadline: August 10th
The STEP Award is a competition designed to recognize innovative growth companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The initiators, Infraserv Höchst and F.A.Z.-Institut Innovation Projects, are pursuing the same goal together with numerous sponsors and partners of the competition: giving companies an important boost in their growth phase. The STEP Award focuses on pharmaceutics, chemistry, life sciences, biotechnology, nanotechnology, medical... [more]
Scienion new collaboration
Scienion’s sciFLEXARRAYER S11 to be used by Courtagen for the production of QPDx® Biochips
SCIENION US, Inc. today announced that Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. – a privately held life sciences company that provides innovative proteomic and genomic products and services to the life sciences industry – will use SCIENION’s sciFLEXARRAYER technology to produce innovative biochips for multiplex immunoassays, and collaborate with Scienion to meet future manufacturing and market needs.“With its novel protein immunoassay platform, QPDx®... [more]
Innovative Core Biotechnology
Berlin-Brandenburg is one of the leading life science locations in Germany. Here is where the strongholds of medicine, scientific research, and training are at home. The key drive behind all this innovation is the biotechnology...
Berlin-Brandenburg is one of the leading life science locations in Germany. Here is where the strongholds of medicine, scientific research, and training are at home. The key drive behind all this innovation is the biotechnology sector, which has been enjoying continuous growth since the mid-nineties. This sector starts out from a large number of “omics” technologies, e.g. genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epigenomics, and their interlinks... [more]
Synthetic DNA in the fight against product piracy
Marcus Weichert, Managing Director of the Adlershof company SecuTech Europe GmbH, is all too aware of the threat posed by product piracy to authorities and enterprises. His company has developed a biomolecular marker that...
Marcus Weichert, Managing Director of the Adlershof company SecuTech Europe GmbH, is all too aware of the threat posed by product piracy to authorities and enterprises. His company has developed a biomolecular marker that provides product protection on the basis of synthesised DNA codes.A leader in DNA security marking and detection technologies, Weichert’s company owns over 120 patents in over twenty patent families. One of its flagships is the... [more]
Find, measure, identify
Analytical methods made in Adlershof measure contaminant concentrations in potentially explosive environments and identify antibodies for improved tumour therapy.No sparking, no high temperatures, no static buildup – the devices...
Analytical methods made in Adlershof measure contaminant concentrations in potentially explosive environments and identify antibodies for improved tumour therapy.No sparking, no high temperatures, no static buildup – the devices that Analytical Control Instruments (ACI) develops and produces in Adlershof must be especially safe and reliable if they are to measure the concentration of contaminants in potentially explosive environments. Workplaces... [more]
By order of the customer
The work of a service provider poses particular challenges for research oriented companies in Adlershof. One specialist in contract research for pharmaceutical companies is ASCA GmbH, whereas ifp Institut für Produktqualität GmbH...
The work of a service provider poses particular challenges for research oriented companies in Adlershof. One specialist in contract research for pharmaceutical companies is ASCA GmbH, whereas ifp Institut für Produktqualität GmbH performs analyses for the food sectors.When Wolfgang Weber founded ifp GmbH in 2004, he was pursuing the target of developing a test kit that could verify vitamins quickly and easily. When he saw that this product was... [more]
The custom hunt for the drugs of tomorrow
Costly clinical tests, controversial experiments on animals, and undesired side effects for patients – the development of new drugs has many obstacles to overcome. With its modern analytical methods, biotechnology is becoming...
Costly clinical tests, controversial experiments on animals, and undesired side effects for patients – the development of new drugs has many obstacles to overcome. With its modern analytical methods, biotechnology is becoming ever more important for medical research as a tool for the earliest possible testing of a preparation’s side effects.Holger Wenschuh is still suffering a little from jetlag. A graduate chemist and Managing Director of the... [more]
Metamorphosis of a Technology Centre
Fifteen years ago, the Environment and Biotechnology Centre opened its doors in the Adlershof Technology Park. Although this initially attracted companies operating above all in the field of environmental analytics, the following...
Fifteen years ago, the Environment and Biotechnology Centre opened its doors in the Adlershof Technology Park. Although this initially attracted companies operating above all in the field of environmental analytics, the following years saw this sector undergo cleansing and concentration, also as a consequence of funding cuts. In like measure, however, a growing number of biotech companies started to discover the outstanding laboratory... [more]
Bioanalytics is booming
The Adlershof location is becoming an increasingly attractive prospect for biotechnology companies and institutes. The field is positively flourishing. Leo Tristram, Managing Partner of RiNA GmbH, and his good two dozen...
The Adlershof location is becoming an increasingly attractive prospect for biotechnology companies and institutes. The field is positively flourishing. Leo Tristram, Managing Partner of RiNA GmbH, and his good two dozen coworkers are sitting on packed suitcases: their biotech company has been given sudden notice to vacate the laboratory rooms on the premises of the Freie Universität Berlin (FU), and Tristram is not pleased. After a long... [more]
SOLON Receives Order for 8 MW Solar Power Plants in Israel
Together with ELCO Contracting & Services, the solar power company SOLON will be building two turnkey solar power plants in Israel. They will be built in the kibbutzim Kramim and Idan and have an output of 5 and 3 megawatts...
Together with ELCO Contracting & Services, the solar power company SOLON will be building two turnkey solar power plants in Israel. They will be built in the kibbutzim Kramim and Idan and have an output of 5 and 3 megawatts respectively. The customer is the project developer Enlight Renewables Ltd. with headquarters in Rosh Ha'Ayin near Tel Aviv. Construction is slated to begin in September.In order to better react to local conditions, SOLON... [more]
Scienion offers new sciFLEXARRAYER S1 model for Applications in Research Labs
Scienion launches the new version of its sciFLEXARRAYER S1 at European Lab Automation in Hamburg, May 30-31. The small compact non-contact piezo dispensing roboter with an increased throughput and versatility offers precise...
Scienion launches the new version of its sciFLEXARRAYER S1 at European Lab Automation in Hamburg, May 30-31. The small compact non-contact piezo dispensing roboter with an increased throughput and versatility offers precise ultra-low volume liquid handling for a variety of applications in multiplexed diagnostics and cellular screening approaches.Dr. Holger Eickhoff, CEO of Scienion AG, states: “The new version of the sciFLEXARRAYER S1 is the... [more]
Thin-film photovoltaics – All the current issues
3rd "Thin-Film Industry Forum" on 14th and 15th April 2011 in Berlin Adlershof
The 3rd "Thin-Film Industry Forum" on 14th and 15th April 2011 in Berlin will look at all the issues around thin-film technology - from the political environment, through international market development, finance and marketing, to sales, production capacity, availability of materials, quality assurance and recycling. The Thin-Film Industry Forum will form a key event that will bring the players of the solar industry together with... [more]
Space Technology Hall of Fame Award for IQ Wireless and DLR
Successfull Fire-Watch System
Space Foundation congratulates on the IQ Wireless’ innovative efforts which resulted in the selection of the FireWatch for induction into the 2012 Space Technology Hall of Fame. IQ Wireless’ role in the successful development of this technology is being recognized as an outstanding example of applying space technology for the betterment of life on Earth. IQ Wireless will be inducted as an Innovating Organization into the Space... [more]
Where snails are giants
Dimensions, especially those that are hard to conceive, are the subject of the artist Margund Smolka. At the new Microsystems and Materials Centre ZMM, she plays with the inconceivability of dimensions in modern microsystem...
Dimensions, especially those that are hard to conceive, are the subject of the artist Margund Smolka. At the new Microsystems and Materials Centre ZMM, she plays with the inconceivability of dimensions in modern microsystem technology. Giant snails creep over the facades, stairwells and laboratory apparatus in the ZMM. Suddenly, they shrink to their normal size. Where else but at the ZMM could Smolka’s snails have found a better home,... [more]
WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH
Dr. Peer Ambrée
Executive Manager Technology Centers
Phone: +49 (0) 30 / 6392-4754
Fax: +49 (0) 30 / 6392-2235
EMail: ambree(at)wista.de
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