The German capital is one of the most research-intensive regions of Europe.
The history of science in Berlin is full of the names of famous scholars like Humboldt, Einstein, Virchow, Koch, Meitner and Planck. Major national research organizations such as Fraunhofer, the Helmholtz Association and the Leibniz Association are represented in Berlin by various institutions and research sites.
Universities, research organizations and businesses in Berlin work together in a tightly integrated network. The Adlershof City for Science, Business and Media (Stadt für Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Medien), the Campus Berlin-Buch and around 20 further technology centers and business incubators in Berlin offer ideal conditions for developing new ideas and translating them into marketable products.
Together with Berlin's universities, nearly 100 research institutions in the city form an important basis for the region's economic development.
Focus areas:
- Life sciences,
- Clean technologies,
- Information and communications technology,
- Optical technologies,
- Materials science,
- Transportation and the environment,
- Humanities and social sciences.
Over 50,000 scientists and scholars work in the region. About 30,000 of them are based at universities and other institutions of higher learning and around 17,000 work in industry.
About 11,000 highly qualified specialists conduct research, teach and work at innovative companies and institutions outside the university system in the Berlin region.
(Sources: Information from the Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office (Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg), 2010)
