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The air cleaner
Benjamin Herzog is building green air pollution filters in Adlershof:
He can never quite let go of the material that his business model is based on. In his spare time, Benjamin Herzog likes to frequent the lakes around Berlin, either by canoe, surfboard, or on a sailing boat. “I try to…
Berlin’s first hands-on supermarket
The Adlershof Founder's Lab jump starts SuperCoop Berlin:
Berlin’s first cooperative supermarket is scheduled to open in late summer in Berlin-Wedding. The SuperCoop Berlin founders have pushed their project forward with help from the Adlershof Founder’s Lab. The idea of…
Growing communities and vegetables
Feeding cities sustainably and strengthening social cohesion – that's what PlattenBaum UG is planning:
It’s about growing fresh vegetables on the outside of panel houses, meeting people in greenhouses and community gardens, and the universal power of connecting through gardening. Maayan Strauss and Kerem Halbrecht…
Two movie buffs and a hamster do advertising
Explainer videos are more than moving-image manuals:
Size doesn’t matter according to Willi Haninger, CEO and creative producer at Angry Hamster UG. Haninger and his business partner Marina Izquierdo work with a team of ten freelancers. “Our strength is that we tend to…
Graphic design solutions for humanities content
The Visualink editor from the Adlershof start-up Whim_GbR is a tool for creating digital charts to improve teaching:
Wen-Min Ji not only studied philosophy, biology, and architecture, but is also very good at drawing. Working as a student assistant at Humboldt-University’s philosophy institute, the 28-year-old used her talents to…
Researchers starting companies
Berlin pools its start-up activities in the Science & Startups network to promote science spin-offs:
The economic potential of science spin-offs is indisputable. Despite government incentives, however, their number remains comparatively low. Berlin is now pooling together all its start-up promotion activities in a…
Starting a business – then and now
What Bestec CEO Rainer Hammerschmidt can pass on to the team of the start-up JUNA:
Rainer Hammerschmidt was one of the first entrepreneurs of the Technology Park Adlershof. He enjoys passing on his experience to prospective business founders. Adlershof, thirty years ago. German reunification:…
Spooky materialisation where light beams meet
New processes from Adlershof-based xolo GmbH are revolutionising 3D printing:
The young Adlershof-based xolo GmbH is launching a novel 3D printing process. Their xolography is based on molecules that are fused to form high-precision components under the influence of light beams of different…
New formats for the exchange with start-ups
The coronavirus pandemic has also affected the work of start-up and innovation centres:
These are turbulent, crazy times. Rarely has an issue dominated all areas of work and life as much as the coronavirus. Start-ups and other developing companies are being hit particularly hard by the resulting…
A bold start – despite COVID-19
What drives prospective business founders – two teams from the Adlershof Founder’s Lab report:
Making the step to start a company requires courage, even when things are normal. What drives prospective founders to take the step during the epidemic year 2020? – two teams from the Adlershof Founder’s Lab…
Xolography as new volumetric 3D printing method
Adlershof start-up develops novel printing process that can produce smooth surfaces at high speed:
It looks like science fiction but in fact could be the future of 3D printing: A blue slice of light wanders through a liquid, while light projections emerge through the window of a glass vessel. Resembling the…
Belyntic GmbH wins Innovation Award Berlin-Brandenburg 2020
“Unique technology for research, development, and production of peptide therapeutics” / Adlershof start-up involved in the development of a vaccine against COVID-19:
Belyntic GmbH is one of this year's winners of the Innovation Award Berlin-Brandenburg. With this award, the jury honors the start-up, located in the Science and Technology Park Berlin-Adlershof, for its "unique…
A hub for basic research, teaching, and industrial application
How the Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences IRIS Adlershof supports many different technology start-ups :
For almost two decades now, Prof. Emil List-Kratochvil has been dealing with a technology that many think holds a promise for the future: printed electronics. The Austrian-born solid-state physicist has been…
Detective work against dementia
Adlershof Start-up Predemtec is working on a procedure for early detection of Alzheimer’s:
Based on blood analysis and its own algorithms, Predemtec AG has been working on a procedure for early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease since 2011. Their team has identified six biomarkers that, in their concentration…
The asbestos scouts: On the hunt for the hazardous fibres
The analytics company LFM (Labor für Mikroanalytik) examines building materials for hazardous substances in low concentrations:
Labor für Mikroanalytik (LFM), an analytics company, was founded in Adlershof just one year ago. The main task of its employees is to trace asbestos and other hazardous mineral fibres. Their services are in high…
Turning wonder into meteorological intelligence
Adlershof start-up MeteoIQ prepares weather forecasts as a basis for business decisions:
At MeteoIQ, the name says it all: the three founders have specialised on the smart use and useful preparation of weather data for customers from the insurance, construction, and energy sector. The Adlershof-based…
Advanced Materials Startup ORELTECH Receives Angel Investment from Hüttenes hoch drei GmbH
H3 promotes its commitment to the use of new materials and to the environment:
ORELTECH is a Berlin startup and trailblazer in the field of advanced metallization techniques. The young company is disrupting the existing market for functional (printed) electronics through a novel, highly…
Fair resources
Tungsten Consulting is developing procedures for environmentally friendly chemical processing of raw materials – such as graphite, large amounts of which are used in batteries:
Storage batteries are in high demand: for cars and bikes used in electromobility as well as mobile electronics devices. The benefits for climate protection and health are heavily advertised but not many like to talk…
Breakthrough process for metallic coatings
Adlershof start-up ORELTECH GmbH develops conductive inks and fluids:
ORELTECH GmbH, a young start-up, develops conductive inks and fluids, which can built into inkjet printers. The start-up has developed a procedure that also allows much finer metallisation techniques, for example,…
New Network “Campus Club Adlershof” for Material and Environmental Technology
Interdiciplinary Cooperation and Talent-Recruiting:
With more than 60 participants, the event exceeded all expectations. The start-ups OrelTech, INURU, Nano-Join, Tiwari, Solaga and PSC presented the current status of their research and products from the Adlershof…