Technology region Karlsruhe

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The Technology Region Karlsruhe ( TRK ; spelling: TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe ) was founded in 1987 as a regional action group in the Middle Upper Rhine region. On April 7, 2017, 25 shareholders converted the previous company under civil law (GbR) into a limited liability company (GmbH). The previous 16 municipal shareholders (a regional association, eleven cities and four districts from Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate ), five companies, two chambers and two scientific institutions have signed the founding agreement. In the TRK, business, science and administration work closely together with the aim of strengthening and advancing the economic, scientific, innovation and technology region. The focus is on the areas of mobility, energy and IT / digitization. The chairman of the supervisory board of the Technologieregion Karlsruhe GmbH is the Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe , Frank Mentrup , the managing director is Jochen Ehlgötz.

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Map of the technology region Karlsruhe

The TRK borders in the north on the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region , of which it includes the southern Palatinate, in the southwest on Alsace , in the south on the Ortenaukreis and in the east on the Enzkreis . It encloses an area of ​​3,240 km², on which a total of almost 1.3 million people live.

Members

Members from Baden-Württemberg are the cities of Baden-Baden , Bretten , Bruchsal , Bühl , Ettlingen , Gaggenau , Karlsruhe , Rastatt , Rheinstetten , Stutensee and Waghäusel as well as the district of Karlsruhe , the district of Rastatt and the regional association Middle Upper Rhine , from Rhineland-Palatinate Districts of Germersheim and Southern Wine Route . In addition, there are five companies (4L Vision GmbH, EnBW Kommunale Beteiligungen , evohaus, SEW-Eurodrive and Grenke ), two chambers (Karlsruhe Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Karlsruhe Chamber of Crafts ) as well as two scientific institutions ( Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Computer Science Research Center (FZI)) Shareholder of the Karlsruhe Technology Region.

Technology Region Karlsruhe GmbH

tasks

The purpose of the company is to support the Karlsruhe economic area in its development, to promote regional cooperation and to bundle the strengths of the region. Through the strategic networking of partners from business, science and the public sector, projects are initiated on a real-laboratory scale. The Karlsruhe Technology Region acts as a platform, takes on the control of the various actors and contributes to co-financing. The results of the cooperation projects are positioned and made visible in the national and international environment. In addition, the TRK is active as a representative of the interests of the region and its actors vis-à-vis decision-makers in the state, at the federal level, in Europe and beyond. Another task is to support infrastructure projects for the benefit of the entire region on both sides of the Rhine.

Organs of society

The organs of the company are the shareholders' meeting, the supervisory board, the advisory board and the regional conference. The shareholders' meeting consists of the legal representatives of the shareholders, who are organized into three shareholder groups: public sector, business / chambers and science. The supervisory board includes six representatives from the public sector shareholder group, five representatives from the business / chambers shareholder group and one representative from the science shareholder group. The chairman of the shareholders' meeting and the supervisory board is the Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe, Dr. Frank Mentrup. The regional conference consists of the legal representatives of the shareholders or their authorized representatives as well as at least 20 other members of social groups from the fields of business, science and culture.

Events and initiatives

EXPO REAL in Munich

Every year, the TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe advertises with an exhibitor community at EXPO REAL in Munich, Europe's largest B2B trade fair for real estate and investments, for projects and properties from the entire TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe. The 2017 TRK exhibitors included Aurelis Real Estate Service GmbH, the development company Cité GmbH, Gewerbeentwicklung Baden-Baden GmbH, Volkswohnung GmbH, Weisenburger Bau + Verwaltung GmbH, Karlsruhe Economic Development Corporation, Baden-Airpark GmbH, big -Group, Economic Development City of Rastatt, the Regional Economic Development Corporation Bruchsal GmbH and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Awards ceremonies

The TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe awards the Neo , Global and Kult prizes .

With the Neo - The Innovation Prize of the TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe , outstanding research and innovation achievements on changing tender topics have been recognized annually since 2010. The prize is endowed with a total of € 20,000.

Entrepreneurial concepts and activities in foreign business are awarded the Global - the foreign trade award of the Karlsruhe TechnologyRegion , which is associated with prize money of 10,000 euros.

With the Kulturpreis des TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe , the society honors projects and initiatives from the cultural sector that promote regional ideas and strengthen regional togetherness. The award is endowed with 1,000 euros and is awarded every two years, alternating with the Global .

Employer forum "Compatibility of work and family"

The employers' forum TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe is a joint initiative of the TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe alliance for families with the alliance partners Agentur für Arbeit Karlsruhe - Rastatt, Chamber of Crafts Karlsruhe and Chamber of Industry and Commerce Karlsruhe. The aim of the forum is to jointly develop measures to improve the compatibility of work and family. The forum is managed by the Karlsruhe Alliance for Families.

research

The research project for urban and autonomous goods logistics, efeuCampus , started in Bruchsal in July 2019 . Systems for the autonomous delivery and collection of goods are being developed and tested on the test site, which is funded by the European Union and the state of Baden-Württemberg .

literature

  • Markus Hilpert: The technology region: learning processes and employment effects of technology policy - evaluated using the examples of Ulm and Karlsruhe. Diss. Univ. Augsburg, Chair for Social and Economic Geography, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-923273-40-1 .
  • Anke Matuschewski: Regional anchoring of the information economy in Germany: cluster-forming factors in the information economy using the example of the Hamburg, Dresden-Upper Elbe Valley and Karlsruhe TechnologyRegion. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie , 48. 2004, pp. 19–33.
  • Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Ed.): Economy in the Karlsruhe TechnologyRegion. Members' magazine of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and Industry. BVS, Braun Verl.-Services, Baden-Baden, ISSN  1439-2593 .
  • Technology region Karlsruhe. In: Merian , Jahreszeiten-Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-7742-6999-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Employer forum TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe at technologieregion-karlsruhe.de
  2. ↑ Karlsruhe Alliance for Families at karlsruhe.de
  3. ↑ Fully automatic parcel delivery service being tested , Südwestrundfunk (SWR), July 5, 2019