“The DESY Innovation Factory offers founders excellent conditions to bring new ideas from research into practice even faster. It brings together bright minds from science and business to work together on sustainable solutions for pressing issues of the future,” said Katharina Fegebank, Deputy Mayor of Hamburg and Senator for Science, Research, Equality. Melanie Leonhard, Senator for Economics, added: "The DESY Innovation Factory enables the transition from research to marketable solutions. It will become a workbench for innovation, where bright minds and creative entrepreneurs work together to find answers to the pressing questions of our time."
Build of DESY Innovation Factory in Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld underway - path to even more innovations
DESY celebrated Wednesday (November 20, 2024) the ground-breaking ceremony for a combined total of more than 8,500 square metres of workspace on its DESY’s main campus and on a second site in the Altona Innovation Park nearby. Construction is expected to last three years and will create laboratories, offices, and open working environments to foster the flow and transfer of knowledge and technology from research to industry and society. From 2027, the DESY Innovation Factory will serve as an innovation centre for life sciences, new materials and quantum technologies for pre-founders, startups and scaleups as well as partner institutes from applied research and collaborations with industry. The aim is to create a "nationwide unique innovation ecosystem" in which ideas can be developed. Participants can benefit from networking opportunities, events and advice.
Bright minds in business and science
Centre for Deep Tech Innovations
The DESY Innovation Factory is another milestone in the strategy to turn the campus into a centre for deep-tech innovations. The unique, large-scale research facilities and specially trained staff will be available to companies to jointly develop cutting-edge products and technologies. Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, remarked: "The DESY Innovation Factory will play a pivotal role in Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld and greatly expand Germany's potential as a science and technology location." The DESY Innovation Factory provides around 120 square meters of equipped experimental space in the Makerspace to validate product ideas and develop prototypes with 3D printing, laser technology, mechanics and electronics. The first pre-foundation teams and startups have already availed of this offer and will be expanded significantly in future thanks to the DESY Innovation Factory.
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German Electron Synchrotron (DESY)
The German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) is among the leading accelerator centres worldwide and researches the structure and function of matter - from the interplay of the smallest elementary particles, the behaviour of novel nanomaterials and vital biomolecules to the mysteries of the universe. The particle accelerators and detection instruments that DESY develops and builds in Hamburg and Zeuthen (Brandenburg) are unique research tools. DESY is a research centre of the Helmholtz Association and is funded to 90 per cent by the German Ministry of Education and Research while the states of Hamburg and Brandenburg pay the remaining 10 per cent.
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