Leipzig lohnt sich

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Beyond administrative boundaries
Infrastructures for Economic Development
in the Leipzig urban region
Result of WP 1.4
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Catchment Area of the Leipzig
Location

• A population of 6.8 million lives within a radius
  of 100 km
• A population of 28.6 million lives within a
  radius of 250 km

• Berlin on the doorstep (150km)
• Poland Pop. 38 million
• Czech Republic Pop. 10 million

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Challenges for Leipzig urban region
Administration
Establishment of regional cooperation between the
city of Leipzig and its surrounding
districts Creation of new instruments for
regional business support
Tangible / Concrete results

• Local information systems for clusters
• Instruments of local management of new business
  settlement
• Common development of particulary important parts
  of regions

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Leipzig Transport Hub

• Road
• Schkeuditz Intersection (A9 and A14) is the
  trimodal logistics development hub for Central
  Germany
• Crossroads of transport axes from Scandinavia to
  Southern Europe and Benelux to Eastern Europe
• Rail
• Roadrail transfer terminal for container
  traffic from the northern and western ports of
  Europe and for Southern Europe
• Whole-train-operating, capacity 120,000 units
  p.a.
• Air
• Intercontinental Leipzig/Halle Airport, 24h
  operation
• Two parallel runways (gt 3,600m)
• DHLs European hub opening in 2008 with annual
  turnover forecast at 600,000 tonnes

Infrastructure
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Leipzig Strong potential of the Logistics
Cluster

• Excellent Infrastructure, including Logistics
  Business Park (Leipzig Logistics Center)
• Short distances between manufacturers, suppliers
  and consumers
• Presence of Logistics enterprises
• Amazon.de
• Central German Produce Centre
• DHL (cargo)
• German Post Office (letters)
• Quelle
• Powerful central German haulage companies
• Investment climate, Marketing, Logistics policy

Cluster Logistics
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The Leipzig Media Cluster

• Important branch of industry
• 1.700 entrepreneurs
• 5,8 of industry production
• Seats of the biggest printing works in East
  Germany, Radio and TV broadcasting
• The latest media equipment (MDR, Media city
  Leipzig)
• Young enterprises
• 83,4 of recently founded companies in Germany
  are settled in Leipzig

Cluster Media
IT for Media and Logistics
The information technology sector shows
potential for optimization

• since 2004, growth of start-ups in IT 44,8
• 34,1 of the media sectors total turnover

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Flexible Handling of Investment Inquiries
Dr. Volker Jung, a director of Siemens
Planning permission was awarded in just six
weeks a length of time we can normally only
dream of.
Flexibility

• Leipzig voted most business-friendly city in
  Germany in 2004 and 2005 (polls conducted in
  Businessswoche and impulse magazines)

• Planning permission awarded quickly Amazon.de
  just 16 days Porsche AG 4 weeks Siemens AG
  6 weeks
• Dependable decisions
• The Economic Development Office has investment
  guides too negotiate investors through every
  step of the formalities

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CITYREGIO Projects (INTERREG III)
co-operation to increase the regions
attractiveness for business

• co-ordinated development of business locations
• mapping of business parks (to facilitate the
  allocation of investors)
• transfer of gained experiences to new partners

CityRegio
RESULTS

• establishment of a Regional Steering Committee,
  in which the City of Leipzig and three
  surrounding districts co-operate and co-decide
  equally

• regional cluster working groups for automotives,
  energy environment, health wellness (first
  CITYREGIO project, since 2002) and logistics
  (CITYREGIO II, since 2006)

• joint cluster development initiatives on a
  regional level

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IT meets LOGISTICS
CityRegio

• Project idea
• Initiation and development of inter-cluster
  activities
• IT and logistics clulsters under the EU CityRegio
  II
• Boosting regional productivity

• Interim results
• Three network meetings (about 20 partners)
• Involvement in the university RD project LSB
• Intranet Platform

• Objectives
• Increase of regional vallue-adding
• Linkage of two dynamic clusters
• Allow small businesses to network with global
  players

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Welcome to Leipzig Region