Industry location factors

Entrepreneurs and start-ups who base themselves in Hannover will soon feel at home here. Since they receive full support for their relocation: whether it is choosing a location, market analysis, operational support or supplying the right contact and cooperation partners – our experts are at your side with word and deed. Companies from our six key industries in particular find excellent conditions here for successful growth.

Hannover convinces with the following location advantages:

Automotive

• More than 30,000 jobs in one of the most important industrial sectors in Hannover
• Production location for Volkswagen AG. 15,000 employees for this firm alone are in this area producing vehicles for the global market.  
• Large offer of young engineers and scientists from university and polytechnics with around 800 graduates every year.
• IAA utility vehicles showcase for automotive world premieres

Energy Solutions

• A leader in the field of energy provision for over 175 years. Strengths of Hannover Region: Energy Solutions, energy efficiency, regenerative energy creation
• Around 250 companies with over 3,000 employees deal with the development, projection, production and installation of climate-friendly energy systems
• Over 20 institutes and research facilities and highly qualified personnel
• Competent network and ideal sponsorship conditions through “enercity-Fonds proKlima's” unique Private Public Partnership model
• Key trade fairs in "Energy" and "Wind" within the scope of the Hannover Messe Trade Fair

Information and Communications Technology

• Large regional market with active demand for IT services
• Over 1,200 highly innovative companies with 23,000 employees in all areas of Information and Communications Technology
• Scientific know-how from 25 institutes and research facilities
• IT and multimedia campus "EXPO Park Hannover“
• Active promotion of cooperation and networking between science and economy
• CeBIT – world's largest trade fair for Information Technology

Life Sciences

• Refined high school and research landscape with Hannover Medical School as the figurehead
• Optimal and cost-effective infrastructure for research and development, for example, in the “Medical Park Hannover”
• Outstanding scientific competence in the fields of infection research, clinical research, regenerative medicine and biomedical technology
• BIOTECHNICA - Europe's largest trade fair for biotechnology

Optical Technologies

• Location of the global market leader in automatic inspection and x-ray technology
• The home of the Germany-wide industry umbrella organisation, the OptecNet Germany e.V. and the Lower Saxony competency centre for optical technologies, PhotonicNet
• Definitive competence in the complete field of laser technology through the “Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V.” (LZH), one of the leading research institutes both domestic and abroad.
• First class specialist personnel from, amongst other, LZH Laser Akademie GmbH

Production Technology

• More than 400 incumbent firms, of which 40 percent have their focus on facility and machine construction.
• Excellent research capacities in production technologies. From micro-system technology through to new materials right up to high performance cutting and moulding technologies.
• Unique direct connection from science and industry in the “Produktionstechnisches Zentrum Hannover (PZH)” (i. e. Hannover Production Technology Centre). Industry partners range from Daimler-Chrysler to Airbus.
• Hannover Messe trade fair – the most significant industrial technology fair in the world