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Cornerstone to be laid for Allianz Campus Berlin
Sustainable building with DGNB Platinum certification / Completion in spring 2019:
On 22nd of September 2016, the cornerstone will be laid today for the Allianz Campus Berlin in Adlershof. The principal of the office complex with 60,000 square metres of lettable space is…
eagleyard helps counting stars
Laser diodes made in Adlershof play part in the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date:
Two laser diodes from eagleyard Photonics – based in Berlin Adlershof – are working on board at ESA’s billion-star surveyor Gaia. Our single frequency laser diodes DFB-852 in a 14-pin butterfly housing are responsible…
Digitalization: 50 new professorships for Berlin
Einstein Center Digital Future launched / Prof. Freytag (HU) one of the spokespersons:
38.5 million euros are flowing into the approved Einstein Center Digital Future. The call for the first 18 professorships will be announced on 12 September 2016 at http://be-digital.berlin. Berlin will be getting 50…
Adlershof Special 46
INAM – An alliance for new materials:
Adlershof incubator // The best of both worlds // How printed images learned to swim //
Discovering paths from research to potential applications
Editorial by Prof. Dr. Jürgen P. Rabe, Chairman Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences IRIS Adlershof:
Intelligence, efficiency, and growing integratability: The rapid progress in micro- and optoelectronics, optics, photonics, and the closely related material sciences defines the rate of future innovations and hence…
Adlershof incubator
Helge Neumann (WISTA-MG) talks about the new network INAM and the role Adlershof :
In June 2016, the Innovation Network for Advanced Materials (INAM) was set up in Berlin with the collaboration of several Adlershof partners. Helge Neumann, Divisional Head of Business Development at WISTA-MANAGEMENT…
A beacon for advanced materials
A recent setup, the INAM network intends to introduce brilliant ideas to the field:
No basic research, no advanced materials. Yet all too often, pioneering knowledge fails to leave the laboratory because scientists shun the step to the product. It is important that all players join forces in the…
The best of both worlds
IRIS Scientists develop hybrid systems for optics and electronics:
What are the advanced materials supposed to have that the electronics of the future so desperately needs? “More speed, more brightness, more performance – and above all more multifunctionality,” replied Jürgen Rabe,…
Of movers, makers, and mentors
“Advanced Material Competition” – an international competition for startups specialising in high tech products:
LEDs, or light emitting diodes, that are so thin that they can be applied to paper and packaging supply the light for prints and slogans. These and other new products are based on research into new materials. With a…
Building jointly
Developing the materials of the future needs interdisciplinary research:
The industrial production of photovoltaic cells or LEDs requires temperatures as high as 1600 degrees Celsius. If these temperatures were lower, manufacture might be conceived for flexible applications over wide…
How printed images learned to swim
The startup Inuru brings paper to life:
The startup Inuru brings paper to life by printing it with light and animations on simple displays – a self sufficient, environmentally friendly, and low cost solution. This story of success began in a sushi bar.…
Networking from research to marketing
Innovation Network INAM has important partners:
Patent agents, a fabulous laboratory, and Pilotfish: The Innovation Network for Advanced Materials (INAM) is constantly focused on the knowledge leading to and from knowledge. And this is provided by a lot of…
Adlershof Journal September/October 2016
Here today, gone tomorrow. How we will work in the future:
Key for Growth: Why Bauer invests in Training //Power from the Wallet: poqit creates Fashion Electronics //Forced Break: Get out of Fear Spiral //
Some Thoughts on the Future
Essay by Prof. Dr. Eckard Minx, expert for future research, innovation management and organisation development:
Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel, once remarked that it is highly likely that what will happen tomorrow is what we overlooked today. I would probably add: 90% of what we perceive as reality today would have been…
Using Sunlight Alone
Hartmut Ehmler builds handheld solar-powered cookers:
Maybe he would have never had the idea, if it wasn’t for all that trouble with the camping stove. “A big old box, much too bulky. The thing filled the whole boot. Something had to be done,” Hartmut Ehlmer said to…
Looking ahead
It’s time to ask entrepreneurs from Adlershof about their aspirations:
The 25th anniversary of the Technology Park Adlershof – time to lean back and reminisce? That is not what the people of the science and technology site are about. We will continue to write our success story. David…
25th Anniversary: Visions for the Future
Adlershof scientists sketch trends to their respective fields:
The booming Science and Technology Park Adlershof has been managed by Wista from the start in 1991. To mark our 25th anniversary, our editor Paul Janositz has asked an Adlershof-based scientist and three of her…
Autonomous Robots
All things are in motion at the new showroom of the company “InSystems Automation”:
If you want to see a transport robot from up close, the showroom of the company “InSystems Automation” is the place to go. Thanks to built-in lasers, the robots move around autonomously. The company also uses the room…
Training is the Key to Growth
BAUER Elektroanlagen has been steadily growing for years:
Key to the success of the family-owned company is the high share of apprentices of 20% and the continuous skill development of its employees. Almost every second person on the staff learned his or her trade at BAUER.…
Creating a Series is an Art Form
Interview with television and film producer Beatrice Kramm:
Beatrice Kramm is the manager of the production company “Film- and Fernsehgesellschaft Polyphon” and has been president of the ÍHK, Berlin’s chamber of commerce and industry, since March. She has not given up on…