Networking in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region
Auch die Metropolregion Hamburg verfügt über viele Transferbeauftrage. Hier finden Sie die Kontaktdaten der Beauftragten. Auf weiteren Seiten listen wir Einrichtungen oder Netzwerke in der Metropolregion Hamburg auf.
Institutions
| Institution | Information |
| Hamburg Innovation GmbH | Hamburg Innovation GmbH (HI) is a joint venture between higher education institutions and research institutes in Hamburg that undertake projects together within this alliance. Besides assisting start-ups (beyourpilot), HI maintains a database of experts (ScienceScout). With the support of the local Hamburg authorities, HI helps people interested in knowledge exchange to secure funding for their ideas (Call for Transfer). |
| Tutech Innovation GmbH | Tutech Innovation GmbH strives to create sustainable value by putting new research insights into practice and devising inventions. As a commercial spin-off owned by Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, it acts as an advisor, broker, initiator, and coordinator on both the national and international levels. Together with its sister company, Hamburg Innovation, Tutech connects all of the City’s public higher education institutions as well as countless research institutes in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. It focuses on the exchange of technology and knowledge at the interface between higher education and industry. |
| Innovations Kontakt Stelle (IKS) Hamburg | The services of the IKS innovation office are aimed at Hamburg companies, entrepreneurs, and scientific institutions seeking support for the implementation of their innovative projects in both technical and nontechnical fields. As a contact point and hub for members of Hamburg’s business and scientific communities interested in cooperation, it assumes numerous innovation-generating tasks: targeted mediation and networking with suitable project partners, experts and other innovation stakeholders; identification of the potential of R&D cooperations within companies; mediator for design and support during cooperations. |
| Hamburgische Investitions- und Förderbank, Innovationsstarter / Innofounder | The IFB Hamburg investment and development bank supports entrepreneurs and companies. With its central office in Hamburg, it is a reliable partner with many years of experience in all aspects of public funding in the fields of urban living, climate protection, business, and innovation. |
| HIW Hamburg Invest Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft mbH | Hamburg Invest is the one-stop agency for relocations and investments in Hamburg and the leading partner for Hamburg’s business sector in all aspects of business development. Besides offering a variety of services specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises, it has been tasked with marketing urban commercial and industrial spaces—from developing and advertising sites to targeting clients and preparing land purchase agreements. Hamburg Invest is the first port of call for technology and knowledge-based start-ups. |
| Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW) | The ZBW is the world’s largest research infrastructure for economic literature and supports researchers and students in their economics-related learning, research, and publication processes. ZBW’s services are based on the latest insights from applied research in informatics and related disciplines. The ZBW strives to share its knowledge via Open Science and Open Science infrastructures and their applications, and to support knowledge exchange formats fostering an exchange and networking. |
Networks
| Institution | Information |
| Maritimes Cluster Norddeutschland e. V. | The MCN maritime cluster helps to connect partners for innovative projects and products. Experts exchange on future-oriented topics and seek solutions to problems in this network. It creates dialog platforms to enable stakeholders to interact with other relevant industries and networks. It also helps its members to develop their ideas, services, and products to allow them to establish these on the market. |
| Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft mbH „Cross Innovation Hub“ | The Cross Innovation Hub fosters exchanges and cooperation between companies and self-employed people from the creative industries and other sectors. |
| Erneuerbare Energien Hamburg Clusteragentur GmbH (EEHH) | The EEHH cluster is involved in a wide range of renewable energy sectors and initiates new projects in Germany and abroad with the aim of further reinforcing and expanding Hamburg’s role as a hub for energy systems of the future. Among others, the cluster supports projects in the areas of innovation, technology, and research. |
| Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Hamburg Ministry of Economy and Innovation "InnovationsAllianz Hamburg" | Regional innovation strategy of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg:the more than 160 stakeholders from science, business, politics, institutions, and associations that have joined forces within the InnovationsAllianz Hamburg share a common understanding of the innovation and funding policy goals. A consensus moreover exists on the central approach to which politics, business, and science should orientate themselves in the development of concrete measures. |
| Gesundheitswirtschaft Hamburg GmbH | The cluster agency for the health economy is tasked with connecting stakeholders from business, science, and politics with the aim of creating synergies that lead to innovations and further added value.Large hospitals, medical practices, private and statutory health insurance companies, health care enterprises and start-ups, health care service providers, IT specialists, companies, and the scientific sector all help to improve health care and to strengthen Hamburg as a health care location. |
| Hamburg Aviation e.V., Network | The stakeholders of Hamburg Aviation form a powerful alliance that encompasses business, science, and politics.The aviation alliance aims to encourage networking between member companies, organizations, and institutions; promote the development of skilled labor; foster knowledge exchange; and improve economic framework conditions. It also strives to identify and fill specific gaps in process chains, generate innovations, and explore new fields of expertise.All members together form the Hamburg Aviation Network. They are involved in the Hamburg Aviation Board and help to develop the cluster’s strategy further. The cluster office acts as the Hamburg Aviation Office, responsible for the implementation of all measures agreed. |
| Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft mbH „nextMedia.Hamburg“ | nextMedia.Hamburg is a local initiative for Hamburg’s media and digital industry. It supports innovation-oriented cooperation between Hamburg-based media and digital companies, universities, students, and committed innovation drivers. nextMedia.Hamburg sees itself as one node within a strong network and believes that open innovation processes are key to the success of business ideas and the development of new expertise. It strives to further boost Hamburg’s leading position as a media and digital location. |
| Life Science Nord Management GmbH | Life Science Nord is the regional network for the medical technology, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries in the federal states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. Comprising around 500 companies, universities, and research institutions and more than 260 active members, the association is an important innovation and economic factor as well as a key component in the cluster policy of both federal states. |
| Logistik-Initiative Hamburg Management GmbH | The logistics initiative has established a series of working groups to address the latest issues in the transport and logistics sectors and related areas. They evaluate these topics, develop them further, and implement solutions within the industry/practice. |
Projects
| Project | Information |
| beyourpilot | A project by Hamburg Innovation GmbH: funding and support for start-ups established by scientists. A platform for advice, funding, expertise, and exchanges with like-minded entrepreneurs. |
| ScienceScout Hamburg | A project by Hamburg Innovation GmbH: knowledge and technology exchange. Creative researchers are able to connect with facilitators from business, politics, and society. |
| Calls for Transfer | A project by Hamburg Innovation GmbH: launched in summer 2018, the C4T program led by the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) fosters the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and technology at Hamburg’s public higher education institutions by providing preliminary funding for project proposals. Whether a future-oriented invention, new insights, or economically-feasible concept, scientists and scholars at Hamburg’s public higher education institutions are able to apply for project funding of up to €30,000 for a period of 12 months. |