Companies & Businesses
Thanks to its state-of-the-art communications infrastructure, Hannover Region is one of the largest German locations of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector boasting around 1,200 ICT companies with around 23,000 employees.The particularly high density of major companies also highlights the attraction of Hannover as a business location. Widely branched networks such as Hannover IT underpin an efficient co-operative business cosmos, not to mention valuable partnerships between established companies and start-ups. Excellent example: the IT and multimedia campus EXPO Park . The convincing benefits offered by campus include, above all, its proximity to companies and scientific institutions and its vicinity to the exhibition grounds and the CeBIT. Around 110 business organizations employing approximately 1,800 people and over 3,500 students are all busy at work in this state-of-the-art service, education and science park.
The media sponsoring institute of the States of Lower Saxony and Bremen, nordmedia GmbH , is one of the most important national institutions with national weight operating from the grounds.
CampMedia
is the start-up center for ICT companies which is based directly at the
EXPO Plaza. This, the TCH GmbH's modern office complex, offers young
and innovative companies office space of between 20 sqm and 48 sqm and
an outstanding infrastructure on an area of 4,250 sqm.,
Hannover IT (HIT)
Hannover IT forms the common umbrella body for the Hannover IT e. V. and the Project Centre Hannover IT GmbH. The aim is to promote science and education for the information and communications sector and to support the performance ability of the region through the initiation of IT projects and cooperations between economy and science.,
Plug & Work
The start-up and relocation competition offers the ideal preconditions for a successful entry to the market in Hannover and the region: rent-free office and working spaces, strategic coaching, intensive networking and many extras are given out for innovative business concepts from the hannoverimpuls key industries.EU Funding
With hannoverimpuls small to medium sized enterprises in the Hannover Region can apply for sponsorship funds from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Investments are sponsored which are linked to entrepreneurial innovation and create added value and jobs. Up to five million Euros are available up to 2013 for the region.














