Thuringia is fertile ground for translating new technologies into market success. When entrepreneurs and scientists in Thuringia engage in productive collaboration they look up to the partnership of Ernst Abbe, Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss as a historic example.

This tradition has survived and thrived over the years to make Thuringia one of Europe’s primary research and technology regions. The state is characterized by a wide range of technology competences: more than two thirds of the Thuringian workforce is employed in technology-oriented companies. Thus the research institutions do not only reflect the traditional diversity of industry but testify also the consequent development to technological needs of presence and future. Thuringia already focusses its research projects on tomorrow’s technology fields. Innovative technology and growth sectors such as energy and environmental technologies / Greentech, medical and bio technologies, micro and nano technologies, or optics .. even now

Thuringia promotes these technology fields – and they promote Thuringia!

The following innovative fields are considered especially future-oriented:

• Environmental engineering and energy technologies (incl. regenerative energy engineering)
• Measurement, control and feedback technologies
• New materials
• Optics and optoelectronics
• Production engineering (incl. process engineering)
• Micro and nanotechnology (incl. systems engineering)
• Life Science (bio and medical technology)
• Information and communications technology (incl. software)

More information about Thuringia as a technology center at:

www.technologie-thueringen.de