lready known for its marketplace/college partnerships, scientific institutes and expanding Technology Campus, the 148-acre Potsdam Science Park in Germany is welcoming a new facility investment decision from DiGOS, a satellite monitoring technological know-how corporation launched by a Potsdam College graduate who claims he desired to do far more with his IT degree than make applications.
Found in the Berlin-Brandenburg metro region, IASP member Potsdam Science Park is home to a lot more than 40 investigate institutes and more than 12,500 researchers, organization workforce and college students functioning on web-site.
Picture courtesy of Standortmanagement Golm GmbH/Luth Hannemann
Started in 2014, the organization employs 425 men and women right now, and strategies to property about 60 when it moves into a new HQ at the parks’ Technological innovation Campus by 2026. As for monitoring down the science park, “The connections to Berlin and the encompassing spot are great,” DiGOS Running Director André Kloth mentioned in an October release from the science park alerting the globe to the park’s ongoing enlargement. “We have the College of Potsdam on web site with the institutes for astronomy, physics, laptop science and geosciences. So it is of class a good advantage for us to use the educational likely for joint jobs or the advertising of youthful researchers.”
As of final winter season, enrollment at the University of Potsdam was extra than 21,400 college students, together with a lot more than 5,000 in science systems and much more than 3,100 global college students from 121 international locations. The college is one particular of a lot of affiliated with science and organization park customers of the Intercontinental Association of Science Parks and Parts of Innovation Areas (iasp.ws), which the park just joined in 2020. A 2022 IASP World-wide survey located that a lot more than 41% of firms primarily based in its members’ parks and innovation spots have been of regional origin.
In September the business saluted three 2022 IASP Inspiring solutions winners at its yearly conference in Seville, Spain:
1st area: Korea Innovation Basis (INNOPOLIS), South Korea, acquired the top prize for its “INNOPOLIS AI Friends” initiative to aid compact businesses adopt AI systems by way of festivals, teaching, co-doing the job areas and pilot remedy consulting that one-way links business owners, academics, and researchers.
2nd place: Malaga TechPark, Spain, positioned in the IASP headquarters town, acquired runner-up honors for “Innoinvest”, a project helping SMEs to access expense capital. “Working with fellow IASP members Tehnopol, Berlin Adlershof and Poznan Science and Technologies Park, it’s a new technique to the expense procedure to support impressive SMEs to discover small business and/or money partners,” IASP stated.
3rd put: Prince of Songkla College Science Park, Thailand, gained third location with “Harmonizing company with science and know-how,” a program that allows Thai farmers contend in global markets, finding a new way to establish and sustain the agriculture sector through pursuits that motivate regional farmers and business people to request new possibilities for regional merchandise.
Finalists for the honors included medical technology park AMTZ in Andhra Pradesh, India Biopark in Brazil Italy’s OpenZone Jiangsu Innovation Research Institute’s Tuspark in China and Tech Parks Arizona.
