The Siemens ‘ planned innovation campus becomes a reality in Berlin. With the state government on Wednesday was signed the corresponding agreement in Berlin. Siemens returns to his roots.
Siemens wants to invest in the coming years, up to 600 million euros in a project in Berlin. It is planned to convert the historic Siemens facilities in Berlin-Spandau a location for research and business incubators, the technology group on Wednesday. This is one of the largest single investments of over 170jährigen company’s history. At the same time, the industry is to be converted area in a district, in the Work, Research, Living and Learning are brought together. Federal Minister Peter Altmaier welcomed the announcement from Siemens to the planned innovation campus as a major success for Germany as an innovation location.
Siemens President and CEO Joe Kaser pointed to the establishment of the so-called Siemens to the city in 1897: The concept at the time, was “Working to combine research and Housing and to create a healthy symbiosis for a successful future.” Even today, you have to Megatrends, think of the future of work: “how the industrial digitalization and urbanization fundamental changes. That life and living are integrated, and with the increasing interconnection of people and things new Ecosystems work.” That’s exactly why it is in the Siemens city 2.0 – “we want to make industry 4.0 in the socio-economic environment a leader.”
“Show of strength” for Berlin
Berlin’s governing mayor Michael Müller pointed to the “effort” by the staff of the Berlin Senate administration have done, to be able to Siemens faster than other sites, a “very good offer” to submit. The commitment of Siemens’m going to put “stimulus for the next 20 years.” New jobs would be created, the location of science will benefit from the infrastructure will be developed. “Berlin is more and more to Smart City.”
For the settlement in Berlin, Siemens was requested by the Senate’s concessions, such as the protection of monuments and building rights on the site of the old Dynamo factory, and the rear derailleur. In addition, the transport should be improved access and the provision of broadband Internet should be ensured.
The project, according to Siemens, to develop the present-day Siemens-Areal in the North-Western district of Spandau up to the year 2030 for the technology Park and incubator in the heart of the Siemens city. As the fields of application Siemens defined, for example, the decentralized energy management, electric mobility, industry 4.0, Machine Learning, Internet of things, Artificial intelligence (AI) and data analysis.
In Berlin, Siemens currently employs around 11,400 of its worldwide total of 377.000 employees. The company was established 171 years ago in Berlin by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske in a backyard in the city district of Kreuzberg. In 1897, the “Siemens city had been started to fit with the plans for the new company,”,. From 1913, all the Siemens was concentrated activities there. At that start-up culture Siemens CEO Kaeser said: “Here in Germany, especially in Berlin, there were already startups, as in Silicon Valley, as yet, no garages.”
hb/dk (dpa, Siemens press release)