East Wuerttemberg
is a business location with tradition. Numerous growth sectors and
technologies of the future have developed here as a result of an ideal
economic environment, the efficiency of companies as well as creative
and innovative employees. In this environment, a centre for photonics/optical
technologies has developed out of the traditional optics sector, a
centre which today already enjoys an outstanding reputation. Examples
of this development include tertiary and research institutions as
well as the entrepreneurial
environment.
On the initiative of WiRO, the photonics initiative East Wuerttemberg
was started which involves the various regional agents and numerous
company representatives. The aim of the photonics initiative with
its integration of companies, institutions, educational establishments
and public authorities is to further improve the productivity and
the infrastructure of the region. With its promotion of the economic
focal point photonics,
East Wuerttemberg offers investors an
outstanding environment with convincing location advantages. Its
objectives are integration, knowledge transfer, cooperation and
a common marketing platform in order to establish attractive prerequisites
that exert a pull on already existing companies, founders of new
businesses, there by creating new jobs in the »Photonics Valley«.
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