The Economic Development Corporation of the Harburg District (WLH) is planning a technology and innovation park (TIP) in Buchholz near the existing Vaenser Heide industrial estate. Around 900 knowledge-based w…

“League of Legends” is one of the world’s hit computer games with an estimated several million players in Germany alone. Five gamers compete against five opponents to conquer their territory and …

Stefanie and Nils Langner, founders of Leankola, have secured seed capital to the tune of six figures from IT investors BrainWeb, Pecunalta and AAK. Partners in business and …

The SQUARE Innovation Hub at the Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA) signed a collaboration Wednesday (September 11, 2019) with Plug and Play, effective immediately, to boost H…

Sales of acCELLerate’s new Assay Ready kits are going well in Europe and the United States. However, this success was preceded by a risky project backed by IFB Hamburg and a positive outcome was by…

The Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft showed just how closely creativity and innovation are intertwined at its two-day congress Mind the Progress in mid June. Stimulating innovation has become an inc…

The Hamburg-based start-up Synergeticon, which specializes in individual software solutions for digital assistance systems, collaborative robotics and artificial intelligence, and the Co-Learni…

Hamburg’s on-demand shuttle service, Ioki, is one of the ten winners of the German Mobility Award 2019. A total of 270 companies, start-ups, research institutions and associations had entered the cont…

The TUHH’s Institute for Waste Resources Management will relocate to the Hamburg Innovation Port (HIP) in October in accordance with a decision by the senate. The institute and a new information technol…

The Dutch company Swapfiets is now offering bike subscriptions in Hamburg after officially opening a store in Altona. Private users or companies can order the bikes with the blue front wheel online for …

Die Blockchain ist derzeit das Thema in der Wirtschaft. Parallel zur öffentlichen Diskussion um Disruptionspotenzi…

Four Hanseatic entries in the Reallabore der Energiewende have been earmarked for funds from the German Ministry of Economics (BMWI). They include the North German Real Laboratory – Competence Cen…

The Hamburg-based Wunder Mobility is adding the Wunder Park solution for managing parking spaces to its offers after a recent study by Inrix found that drivers in German cities spend a…

Applicants in the special “Best Customer Journey Experience” category of the Crystal Cabin Awardsnow have until mid July 2019 to submit their applications online. Introduced in 2018, the c…

The Renewable Energy Hamburg Cluster Agency is inviting people to view photovoltaic systems, aquifer heat storage and an “intelligent” control system for Leuphana University’s main building in Lüneburg on…

Family entrepreneurs are to set to reveal their strategies for decades-long success during the upcoming “Hall of Fame – Dialogue” on June 13, 2019 in Hamburg. The event comes against the backdrop of Hamburg’s…

The Hamburg-based Asklepios Kliniken GmbH & Co. KGaA is investing around EUR 500 million in its digitization strategy by 2024 to accelerate its transformation into a digital health care group. Its “Di…

Die Entscheidung über den Standort des künftigen Deutschen Hafenmuseums und dem Liegeplatz der Peking ist gefallen: Grasbrook – in dem neuen Stadtteil, der südwestlich der Elbbrücken e…

A total of 30 major cities including Chicago, Helsinki, Johannesburg, Sydney and Hamburg met Wednesday (May 22, 2019) at the Urban 20 Mayors Summit in Tokyo and urged governments to leverage the…

Trend researcher Oona Horx-Strathern highlighted 12 megatrends shaping the present and conclusions that can be drawn for the future of economy and society. The Future Institute, founded by her husband Matthi…

Big ideas and above all lateral thinking are the overriding themes on the tenth anniversary of the TEDxHamburg on June 1, 2019. Ten international speakers will then outline their dreams of genuine projects…

The international BLOCKCHANCE Conference 2019 gets underway in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce from August 16-17, 2019 under the theme “The Future of Social Economics”. Around 750 dele…

Deep tech topics took centre stage Thursday (May 23, 2019) at the Hamburg Innovation Summit(#HHIS) underway in the historic Fischauktionshalle Altona. Some delegates also found time to enjoy th…

“Future City”, “New Work” and “Deep Tech” are high on the agenda of the 2019 Hamburg Innovation Summit 4.0 underway Thursday (May 23) in the Fischauktionshalle. The interactive expo with over 7…

The Hamburg-based About You, has bought the ad tech specialist Adference. After two years of co-operation, the Luneburg-based start-up became a wholly owned subsidiary of About You in late Apri…

Erstmal eine Tasse Tee: Dieses Motto eines Zen-Meisters hat nun auch Wladimir Klitschko übernommen. Der ehemalige Boxer und Unt…

The Hamburg Innovation Summit (HHIS) is set to bring together visionaries, founders, designers as well as representatives of politics, science and busines on Thursday (May 23, 2019) in the Altonaer Fischau…

The WinDroVe network, launched in 2017 to promote the economic use of drones in the metropolitan region, has entered the second round. This comes as Hamburg expands funding for the developm…

Der Bund und die Länder haben im Rahmen der Gemeinsamen Wissenschaftskonferenz (GWK) in Berlin beschlossen, Hochschulen dauerhaft eine solide finanzie…