19.04.2012

Berlin Adlershof - Facts and Figures

April 2012

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 Science and Technology Park with 429 companies, eleven non-university research institutes and six scientific institutes of the Humboldt University in Berlin. The companies and the non-university scientific institutes focus on:

• Photonics and Optics
• Microsystems and Materials
• IT- and Media
• Bio Technology and Environment
• Photovoltaics

In close proximity to science and technology are shops, hotels, restaurants and a park of 66 hectares. Altogether, Adlershof is the workplace of approx. 15,000 people and about 8,000 students.

Area:     1,038 acres 
Staff:      14.968
Companies:     904
Scientific Institutes:   17 
Investments (1991 - 2011):  approx. 1.9 billion EUR


SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARK
Companies:    429 - New additions 2011:  39
Employees:    5,080
Turnover 2011:   625.3 million EUR (subsidies: 5.6 %)

Non-university scientific Institutions: 11
Employees:  1,820
Basic funding:  120.8 million Euro / Third-party-funding: 52.8 million EUR

Institutes of Humboldt-University of Berlin: 6
(Institute for Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Geography and Psychology)
Employees:   1,004
Students:   8,034
Basic financing: 41 million EUR / Third-party-funding: 23.5 million EUR

MEDIA CITY
Companies:   138 
Employees:   1,658 (including freelancers)
Revenues 2011:  172.9 million EUR

TRADE AND SERVICE
Companies:   337
Employees:   5,406
Revenues 2011: 579.3 million EUR (absent Solon SE)

Contact 

Dr. Peter Strunk 
Executive Manager Public Relations
WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH 
Rudower Chaussee 17, D-12489 Berlin

Phone: ++49 (0)30 6392-2225 
Fax: ++49 (0)30 6392-2199 
Email: strunk(at)wista.de