Metropole Ruhr | Cluster development

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Metropole Ruhr Cluster development

• Cluster development
• Overview of clusters
• Energy
• Logistics
• Chemicals
• HealthcareCross-sectional technology
• Microsystem technology and nanotechnology
• Materials technology
• Information and communications technologies

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Metropole Ruhr Overview of clusters

• What are clusters?
• Economic fields in which
• particular economic strengths exist that
  contribute to regional growth, innovation and
  employment,
• networks and co-operation exist between research,
  development and companies that have distinct
• innovative energy,
• new applications are tested, experiences
  exchanged and technologies and products developed
  and
• marketed jointly.
• Clusters in the Metropole Ruhr are energy,
  logistics, chemicals and healthcare.
• What are cross-sectional technologies?Cross-secti
  onal technologies are technologies whose areas of
  application are not limited to one specific
  industry, but that are used in all sectors.
  Important cross-sectional technologies in the
  region are microsystem technology, nanotechnology
  and materials technology (so-called cutting-edge
  technologies) as well as information and
  communication technologies.
• The Metropole Ruhr uses these cluster
  technologies to present itself in the competition
  for national and international locations.

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Metropole Ruhr Overview of clusters
Logistics
Energy

• 220 businesses
• 46,800 employees
• EUR 47 billion annual turnover
• 2 export rate (NRW)
• 3,600 engineers

• 5,800 businesses
• 89,000 employees
• EUR 11 billion annual turnover
• 310 engineers

Chemicals
Health industry

• 220 businesses
• 22,500 employees
• EUR 22 billion annual turnover
• 52 export rate (NRW)
• 1,300 engineers

• 120 hospitals and clinics, 40,800 beds
• 1,100 care homes and out-patient services
• 250,000 employees
• 9,000 GPs and specialist doctors
• 1,350 chemists
• EUR 12,4 billion annual turnover

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Metropole Ruhr Overview of clusters and
cross-sectional technologies
Cross-sectional technology Microsystem technology
Cutting-edge technology Nanotechnology
Cross-sectional technology Information and
communications technology
Cutting-edge technology Materials technology

• 7,600 businesses
• 45,500 employees
• EUR 12 bn annual turnover
• 1,200 engineers

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Metropole Ruhr Energy cluster

• Location
• No. 1 expertise region for energy transformation,
  energy supply and energy technology in Germany
• Location for globally-active energy companies
• Cutting-edge expertise in power plant technology,
  for example in turbine construction
• Highly-specialised engineering offices, IT firms,
  mechanical engineering and plant engineering
• Particular innovation potential new and
  renewable energies and energy technologies
• Location for fairs and congresses in the field of
  energy

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Metropole Ruhr Energy Geothermal energy

• Geothermal energy
• Inexhaustible energy source with high degree of
  environmental friendliness
• Ready-to-use technology
• Annual doubling of demand for near-surface
  geothermics
• Location
• Approx. 75 of German drilling facilities for
  near-surface geothermics come from the region
• 230 companies in the geothermics business field
• On-site expertise GeothermalCenter Bochum,
  Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Ruhr
  University Bochum, Gelsenkirchen University of
  Applied Sciences
• Sole office of the International Geothermal
  Association in Bochum (from 2011)
• Office for Geothermics network activity and
  transfer of research
• Central trade event geothermal conference (held
  in Bochum every two years)

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Metropole Ruhr Energy Hydrogen fuel cell
technology

• Hydrogen
• Unlimited availability, however, hydrogen first
  has to be dissolved
• Closed CO2 cycle in production with the aid of
  renewable energies (green hydrogen)
• Location
• Unique pilot projects for the production of green
  hydrogen (e.g. EuWaK Blauer Turm)
• Science and research, e.g. Center for Fuel Cell
  Technology (ZBT) in Duisburg
• h2-netzwerk-ruhr e.V. promotion and marketing of
  the Ruhr hydrogen region
• EU-funded HYCHAIN MINI-TRANS project, with a site
  in the Emscher-Lippe region
• Anwenderzentrum H2Herten expansion of the
  hydrogen fuel cell technology value chain
• World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2010 in Essen
  high scientific and industrial policy significance

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Metropole Ruhr Research development in the
energy sector

• New and renewable energies
• Biomass
• Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT, Oberhausen use of
  biogenic gases as GreenGas, energy and fuel
• Gaswärme-Institut Essen research activities in
  the field of biogas
• Focus on the Ruhr district combined heat and
  power technology
• Solar energy
• Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems,
  Gelsenkirchen laboratory centre
• Innovationszentrum Wiesenbusch, Gladbeck, solar
  heat
• Science Park Gelsenkirchen information centre
  for new energies
• Wind energy
• Research universities of Bochum, Dortmund,
  Duisburg-Essen
• The Metropole Ruhr is the leading global site for
  the sub-contracting industry (propulsion systems
  and joining technology)

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Metropole Ruhr Logistics cluster

• Location
• Central European logistics hub
• In addition to the worlds largest inland port in
  Duisburg (duisport),Dortmund has the largest
  canal port in Europe.
• Spatial focus
• Western Ruhr district (Duisburg-Niederrhein)Trimo
  dality bundling of the common carriers water,
  rail and road via the favourable location on the
  central trans-European transit axes e-logistics
  site for applied research and development
• Central Ruhr district (Herne, Herten,
  Gelsenkirchen)Last mile logistics central
  location and fast access for companies and end
  customers
• Eastern Ruhr district (Dortmund, Hamm and
  Unna)E-logistics high level of expertise in the
  intersection between trade, logistics and IT,
  location of research and development

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Metropole Ruhr Strengths in logistics

• Both place of production and sales market
• Complete logistics value chain
• European logistics hub with dense trimodal
  infrastructure
• Strong local industrial base
• European centre for logistics and IT
• June 2010 launch of the EffizienzCluster
  LogistikRuhr, funding to the amount of 40
  million from the BMBF cluster competition, total
  project volume 106 million
• In the focus of the region optimisation of
  logistics processes
• Perishability foods and fresh foods market
• Healthcare hospitals and pharmacies
• Environment efficient use of resources
• Safety effective controls and smooth-running
  transport

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Metropole Ruhr Strengths in logistics

• Headquarters of 33 of the top 100 German
  logistics companies in the Metropole Ruhr, for
  example
• Ikea Distribution Services GmbH creation of
  Europes largest goods distribution centre in
  Dortmund
• SSI Schäfer intra-logistics global market
  leader with headquarters in Dortmund
• Schenker AG leading provider of integrated
  logistics for the German market, Essen
• SimPlan AG global market leader for simulation
  and process optimisation, Witten
• Rhenus AG leading European logistics service
  provider, Unna district
• Wincanton GmbH leading logistics and transport
  services provider with headquarters in Duisburg

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Metropole Ruhr Research development in
logistics

• Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and
  Logistics (IML), Dortmund
• An internationally-leading logistics research
  establishment
• Europes unique test and development site for
  RFID technology (Radio Frequency Identification)
• Centre for Logistics and Traffic (ZLV),
  University of Duisburg-Essen
• 28 teaching chairs / institutes from seven
  subject areas with approximately 330
• staff and five further partner teaching chairs
• Award from the UDE as best German logistics
  college 2010
• Institute for Demand Logistics, FH Gelsenkirchen
  University of Applied Sciences
• Research focus Last Mile logistics
• Projects for disposal logistics, conveying
  technology, optimisation of business processes
• Technical University Dortmund
• Focus on the fields of intra-logistics, transport
  logistics and production logistics
• 10th best logistics university in Germany
• SRH Fachhochschule Hamm
• Private college with full-time and in-service
  logistics courses
• Close interlinking of operational and
  professional practice, international alignment

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Metropole Ruhr LogistikRuhr network

• Objectives
• Bundling of the logistics activities of the
  Metropole Ruhr under LogistikRuhr
• Improving of national and international
  marketing, for example through joint fair
  appearances
• Establishment of the region as a leading European
  cluster for logistics research in co-operation
  with the institutes and universities
• Intensification of project-related collaboration
  between research, science/academia, business and
  intermediaries
• Initiators of LogistikRuhr
• Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen University of
  Applied Sciences, Fachhochschule für Oekonomie
  Management University of Applied Sciences,
  Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and
  Logistics, last mile logistik netzwerk,
  Wirtschaftsförderung Dortmund, Logistikinitiative
  Duisburg/ Niederrhein, SRH Fachhochschule Hamm,
  Technical University Dortmund, Wirtschaftsförderun
  g Hamm, Wirtschaftsförderung metropoleruhr,
  Wirtschaftsförderung Kreis Unna, Centre for
  Logistics and Traffic of the University of
  Duisburg-Essen
• Spring 2010 founding of Logistik Ruhr e.V. as
  operational establishment

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Metropole Ruhr Chemicals cluster

• Location
• Seven fully-developed high-tech chemicals parks
  with extensive pipeline systems, by-products and
  extensive services
• Commissioning of a 60-km-long propylene pipeline
  in 2009, linking the chemical sites in the
  western and northern Ruhr district
• Development, manufacture, processing and disposal
  of chemical products and related services
• Further focuses synthetics production and
  processing, surface technologies (paints and
  coatings)
• Excellent research and development facilities,
  together with educational and training
  establishments

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Metropole Ruhr Strengths in chemicals

• Headquarters of national and international
  chemical groups
• Including Evonik Degussa GmbH, Deutsche BP AG,
  OXEA Deutschland GmbH, Du Pont de Nemours
  (Germany) GmbH, INEOS Phenol GmbH Co. KG
• VESTOLIT GmbH Co. KG
• Operator of the largest, fully-integrated
  polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production plant in
  Europe, with a capacity of 400,000 t per year
  and market leader for PVC window profiles
• Speciality and basic chemicals
• Sasol, Rohm and Haas, LANXESS Buna, INEOS
  StyrenicsEvonik Goldschmidt GmbH (largest
  research site of Evonik Degussa),
  cph-Deutschland Chemie- und Handels- GmbH (global
  market leader for biodegradable industrial
  adhesives)
• Oil products
• BP Refining Petrochemicals GmbH, Sabic
  Polyolefine GmbH
• RÜTGERS Germany GmbH leading producer of
  chemical tar products headquarters in
  Castrop-Rauxel with the worlds largest refinery
  for coal tar

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Metropole Ruhr Research development in
chemicals

• Research development
• Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim
  an der Ruhr
• Basic research, including into organic and
  organo-metallic chemistry
• Goal development of new methods for selective
  and environmentally-friendly transformation of
  substances
• Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT, Oberhausen
• White biotechnology industrial production of
  organic basic and fine chemicals with the aid of
  natural agents (enzymes, cells,
  microorganisms)
• Research at universities
• Graduate School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at
  Ruhr University Bochum. Focal points from
  molecular and biomolecular chemistry to new
  materials and life sciences
• International Max Planck Research School Chemical
  Biology joint establishment of the Max Planck
  Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
  University of Applied Sciences and Ruhr
  University Bochum. Focus chemical biology

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Metropole Ruhr Networks in the chemicals sector

• ChemSite
• Unique site co-operation, established in 1997
• Public-private partnership between the chemical
  industry, state of North Rhine-Westphalia and
  local municipalities
• Bundles all activities in the chemicals-relevant
  value chains of the Metropole Ruhr
• Comprehensive range of services for investors
  (chemicals, chemicals-related and processing
  industries) at seven high-tech production sites
  with vacant industrial space and fully-developed
  infrastructure
• Goals
• Location of new companies
• Reinforcement and linking of regional expertise
• Creation and retention of jobs
• Expansion of chemicals as leading industry in the
  Metropole Ruhr

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Metropole Ruhr Networks in the chemicals sector

• Polymer network
• Partnership between business, science and
  education in the scope of the ChemSite initiative
• Objective formation of clusters for synthetics
  expertise and strengthening of innovation and
  economic strength within the region
• Since winter semester 2007/08, Master course in
  polymer sciences (TU Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen
  University of Applied Sciences )
• Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen
  (CeNiDE)
• Co-ordinates applied research in the field of
  nanotechnology at the University of
  Duisburg-Essen
• CeNiDE comprises approximately 270 researchers
  in a current total of 40 research groups at
  various faculties (physics, chemicals and
  engineering)
• Industrial biotechnology cluster (CLIB2021),
  Düsseldorf
• At the centre products and technologies with a
  relevance for the chemicals industry, in
  particular monomers, polymers and their
  functionalisation
• Partners from the Metropole Ruhr Bitop AG, Taros
  Chemicals and Prot_at_agen, TU Dortmund and
  Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT

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Metropole Ruhr Healthcare cluster

• Location
• Densest grouping of clinics and hospitals in
  Europe (closely combined with the universities)
• Numbers amongst the most significant European
  healthcare regions
• Extremely compact and discerning clinical sales
  market
• Strong sales and service location (marketplace
  function)
• High development of scientific and commercial
  infrastructure, including profiling of niche
  technologies
• Model region due to demographic transition
  solutions for prevention and quality of life in
  advanced age on the basis of modern, integrated
  care structures
• Gesundheitscampus (Bochum) as central research
  and university location, following the model of
  the American National Institute of Health (NIH)

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Metropole Ruhr Strengths in the healthcare
sector

• Top German medical facilities include
• Stroke units,Knappschaftskrankenhaus and
  Uniklinik Bochum
• Herzzentrum Bochum
• Westdeutsches Tumorzentrum, Essen
• Westdeutsches Protonentherapiezentrum, Essen
  new radiation procedures in cancer therapy, 100
  PPP project
• Fraunhofer institutes for Software and System
  Engineering Hospital Engineering in Dortmund
• Grönemeyer Institut für Mikrotherapie unique
  invasive medicine services employing tomographic
  control
• Knappschaft Prosper alliance
• integrated and interdisciplinary
  care,networking of out-patient and in-patient
  care for improved patient care and cost reduction

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Metropole Ruhr Strengths in the healthcare
sector

• Leader in involvement in clinical studies in
  Germany (ahead of Berlin, Munich and Hamburg) for
  the testing of new pharmaceutical products,
  medical technologies, procedural innovations
• Lead Discovery Center of the Max Planck Society
• Excellent biomedical RD service provider
• Biomedical pure research and translation into
  drug research

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Metropole Ruhr Research development in the
healthcare sector

• Medizinisches Proteom Center
• Protein analysis and protein structure research
  at the Ruhr University Bochum in close
  co-operation with the MPI in Dortmund and the
  university teaching hospitals in Essen and Bochum
• Planned for 2011 Protein Research Unit Ruhr
  within Europe (PURE), Bochum
• Erwin L. Hahn Institute
• Applied research in the field of molecular
  imaging with 7-Tesla magnetic resonance
  tomograph, Essen
• Undisputed worldwide leader in the field of
  tomography for full-body applications (awarded
  1st prize for this in 2009 at the worlds largest
  international congress for radiology)

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Metropole Ruhr Research development in the
healthcare sector

• Centre for Medical Biotechnology, Essen
• Focus of research degenerative illnesses,
  tumour biology and epigenetics
• Westdeutsches Tumorzentrum
• One of ten national Comprehensive Cancer Centers
• Close co-operation with the Protonentherapie
  Zentrum
• Basis research into cancer illnesses
• Translational research
• Implementation of ideas, findings and discoveries
  of basic research into new strategies for
  prevention or treatment
• Feedback from the clinic to the laboratory

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Metropole Ruhr Networks in the healthcare sector

• MedEcon Ruhr e.V.
• Umbrella organisation for the healthcare industry
  in the Ruhr
• Members over 80 companies, hospitals and
  research establishments
• Acts beyond the local boundaries of
  municipalities, towns and districts
• Links various sectors of the healthcare industry
• Operational tasks of the association are
  undertaken by MedEcon Ruhr GmbH
• Tasks
• Regional cluster development
• Project development and implementation
• Regional, national and international marketing of
  the Ruhr health metropolis

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Metropole Ruhr Networks in the healthcare sector

• BioIndustry e.V. service cluster of companies,
  research establishments and municipal business
  development agencies
• Task efficient networking of research, business
  and support infrastructure
• Goal commercialisation of start-up and product
  ideas in the fields of bioprocess engineering,
  microstructure technology and proteomics
• MedWIN e.V.
• Alliance of companies, municipalities and
  business development agencies in the
  Recklinghausen district
• Task and goal strengthening of the healthcare
  sector and innovations transfer. The network is
  also a member of MedEcon Ruhr e.V.

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Metropole Ruhr Cutting-edge technology MST
nanotechnology

• Location
• Microsystems technology (MST) and nanotechnology
  are cross-sectional technologies with a high
  degree of innovative content
• They promote added value at the interfaces to
  energy, chemicals, logistics, medical technology,
  IT, materials technology
• Optimal linking of companies and science via
  cluster management locally strong individual
  activities e.g. in Dortmund and Duisburg
• Dortmund MST cluster is one of the three largest
  in Europe, currently numbering 40 companies
• MST.factory dortmund first European centre of
  excellence for microtechnology and
  nanotechnology. Provision of devices, office,
  laboratory and clean room space for start-ups and
  technology companies for product development, up
  to series-production readiness, awarded the
  EUROCITIES AWARD for this concept in 2006
• Example workbench for processing
  nanomaterials a Focused Ion Beam- device (FIB)
  at the University of Duisburg-Essen is used,
  amongst other purposes, to develop innovative
  concepts for information processing

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Metropole Ruhr Strengths in cutting-edge
technology - MST nanotechnology

• Headquarters of companies such as
• ELMOS Semiconductor AG, leading manufacturer of
  integrated switches (ASICS) for more safety in
  the car
• LIMO Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH world market
  leader for refractive micro-optics (micro-optic
  components for eye operations)
• Boehringer Ingelheim microParts GmbH, produces,
  amongst other products, atomisers for the
  treatment of respiratory illnesses, the finest
  aerosols (vapour) without propellants
• NanoFocus AG, pioneer and technological leader
  for a new generation of highly-precise optical 3D
  surface analysis tools for laboratories and
  production
• Raith GmbH, produces plant and software for
  electron beam lithography and navigation software
  for semiconductor testing, sub-contractor for
  research and industry in the MST and nano field
• Innolume, leading worldwide provider in the field
  of semiconductor lasers, based on Quantum Dot
  technology, used in the surgical field, amongst
  others

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Metropole Ruhr Research development in
cutting-edge technology

• Three of the four Fraunhofer institutes in the
  Metropole Ruhr are working on themes regarding
  the cross-sectional technologies of MST and
  nanotechnology
• Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety
  and Energy Technology UMSICHTDevelopment of
  thermoplastic synthetics and natural materials
  with functional nano and micro particles
• Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and
  Logistics IMLFurther development of RFID
  technology
• Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronic Circuits
  and Systems IMSFurther development and
  production of chip cards and sensors

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Metropole Ruhr Research development in
cutting-edge technology

• Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen
  (CeNiDE)
• Co-ordinates applied research in the field of
  nanotechnology at the University of
  Duisburg-Essen (UDE)
• CeNiDE comprises around 270 researchers in over
  40 research groups at various faculties
• NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum (NETZ) at the UDE
• In the period to 2012 a research centre for 120
  staff from the fields of chemistry, engineering
  and physics is to be created at the Duisburg
  campus of the UDE. Tasks
• Investigation of environmentally-friendly energy
  production using nanotechnologies
• Development of a technology platform for the
  provision of custom, functional materials for
  energy technology applications

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Metropole Ruhr Qualification in cutting-edge
technology

• Outstanding educational options in the field
  ofMST nanotechnology
• 11 universities and colleges throughout Germany
  have MST / nano institutes
• Since 1998 the profession of microtechnologist
  has been a state-recognised occupation requiring
  formal training
• Dortmund is the sole training location in Germany
  for microtechnologists over 900 have graduated
  thus far
• Unique study course for Bachelor of Science
  ComputerEngineering at the University of
  Duisburg-Essen
• Since the winter semester of 2009/10 Bachelor
  course in Applied Material Sciences at the Georg
  Agricola University of Applied Sciences, Bochum

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Metropole Ruhr Cutting-edge technology
Materials technology

• Location
• In the field of metallic materials the region
  boasts extensive know-how at the classic steel
  sites
• Complete value chains, e.g. from the production
  of pig iron to steel and semi-finished products
  and components for the automobile industry
• Sustainable production approaches (zero waste
  production) and quality demands are the basis for
  the development of globally-leading environmental
  protection and qualification standards for
  large-scale industry
• With companies such as Arcelor Mittal,
  Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann and ThyssenKrupp
  Steel AG, Duisburg is one of the top 5 steel
  sites in the world and no. 1 in Europe
• matec.net links the stakeholders at the Duisburg
  location and beyond

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Metropole Ruhr Research development in
materials technology

• Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials
  Simulations (ICAMS)
• Unique interdisciplinary institute for advanced
  materials simulation at Ruhr University Bochum
• Simulation and development of new high-tech
  materials, tailored to the demands of modern
  production processes
• 72 physicists, chemists and engineers research
  new types of steel for the automobile industry,
  self-repairing surfaces and alternative materials
  for catalytic converters
• International co-operation with institutes in
  countries including the USA, Sweden, France,
  China, Denmark, Great Britain, Brazil
• Practical examples
• The Dortmunder OberflächenCentrum (DOC) of
  ThyssenKrupp Steel AG is a materials centre of
  excellence in which so-called tailored blanks
  are developed for the automobile industry
• Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung GmbH develops
  high-alloyed, corrosion-resistant materials for
  seamless pipes and sheeting, together with
  moulding and joining technology
• Grillo-Werke AG, core competence for zinc
  metallurgy

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Metropole Ruhr Cross-sectional technology
information and communications technology

• Information and communications technology
  location
• 7,500 companies with approximately 48,000
  employees generate annual sales of 15 billion
  in the Metropole Ruhr
• Information and communications technology has a
  wide range of interfaces to logistics, energy and
  the healthcare sector
• Focus in the field of IT security with the Horst
  Görtz Institute at Ruhr University Bochum , a
  leader in the European field
• Estimated 16 increase in workforce in the period
  to 2015
• Excellent education and training options at
  universities of applied sciences and vocational
  schools, e.g. commercial information systems at
  the Essen campus of the University of
  Duisburg-Essen (largest faculty in the
  German-speaking area)
• Alongside Berlin and Munich, Dortmund is the
  largest education site in Germany
• Training as an IT professional at the IT-Center
  in Dortmund is one of the fastest IT courses in
  Germany

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Metropole Ruhr Strengths in information and
communications technology

• Headquarters of top companies such as
• Infineon Development Center, Duisburg
  development centre of the leading manufacturer of
  chips for mobile telephone technology
• MimoOn Duisburg leading company in the field
  of Mimo- and LTE technology
• ATOS Origin, Essen internationally leading
  supplier of IT services
• Materna Gruppe, headquarters in Dortmund - one
  of the leading, independent service providers of
  information and communications technology in
  Germany
• GELSEN-NET Kommunikationsgesellschaft mbH, one
  of the most successful regional carriers in NRW
• Dotzilla, Duisburg innovations prize winner
  in the field of mobile communication
• CUBIS Solutions GmbH, with headquarters in
  Essen, operates one of the most modern and
  powerful computing centres in the region

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Metropole Ruhr Networks in information and
communications technology

• networker NRW e.V.
• With over 400 member companies, the largest IT
  association in NRW, one of the three largest IT
  associations in Germany
• Founded in 2004 by the networker westfalen and
  ruhr networker associations
• Further networks under the umbrella of networker
  NRW wisnet e.V., association for e-learning and
  knowledge management, and InnoZent OWL e.V., an
  association of innovative companies from the
  eastern Westphalian region
• Tasks
• Advancement of business and knowledge development
  in the IT sector in the Metropole Ruhr, also NRW
  in the medium term
• Bundling of expertise
• Promotion of joint projects and training
  initiatives
• Representation of interests and site marketing
  for the IT sector