Research environment
36 institutions of higher education have R&D programs in photonics and microsystems technologies. Because important research institutes are present, the region has become a German center for photonics. These sites supply the region’s companies with necessary know-how.
These experts include (amongst others):
- Technical University of Berlin (TU)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM
- Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI
- Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH)
Close cooperation between science and industry:
- the Institute for Nanometer Optics and Technology at the Helmholtz Centre
- the University of Potsdam with its Center for Innovative Expertise, innoFSPEC
- the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI)
University and research landscape
- The highest concentration of research institutions and activities in Germany
- High investment in research and development
- Support for spin-offs from academic institutions
- Targeted support for start-ups
- Germany's largest start-up competition "Businessplan-Wettbewerb Berlin-Brandenburg"
Educational institutions in the region
- Beuth Hochschule für Technik
- Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences
- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
- Freie Universität Berlin
- HTW University of Applied Sciences
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau
- Technical University of Berlin
- University of Potsdam
Research institutions in the region
- BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Institute for Optical Sensor Systems
- Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik FBH
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP
- Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI
- Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS
- Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK
- Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI-BB
- Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM
- The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
- IHP – Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik, Frankfurt/Oder
- Institute of Applied Photonics (IAP)
- Institut für Dünnschichttechnologie und Mikrosensorik e. V. (IDM)
- Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS e. V.
- Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam AIP
- Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
- Zentrum für Innovationskompetenz innoFSPEC Potsdam