Business Location Dresden

The local Cluster of Excellence 'Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden' means the city has a unique research center investigating future electronic information processing technologies.

The researchers explore new technologies for electronic information processing which overcome the limits of today's predominant CMOS technology.

• www.cfaed.org

The aim of the Leading-Edge Cluster »Cool Silicon«  is to build the technology basis for a massive increase of energy efficiency in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector.

• www.cool-silicon.de

The research at NaMLab focuses on materials for electronic devices and new device concepts. Among these are high-k materials for capacitors, transistors and other applications, novel switching devices including memristors, nanowire based electronics as well as materials for energy harvesting devices such as solar cells.

• www.namlab.com

Fraunhofer CNT, which was opened on 31st May 2005, is an example of the close cooperation between research and manufacturing for which Dresden offers excellent conditions. Due to its advantageous location within the »Silicon Saxony«, it provides ideal collaboration opportunities for research institutes and material/equipment manufacturers in the field of nanoelectronics.

The research center has been integrated as a business area of Fraunhofer IPMS Dresden on 1st January, 2013.

• www.cnt.fraunhofer.de/en

The Centre of Microtechnical Manufacturing is acting in the field of processes and procedures of manufacturing electronic and microtechnical devices closely together with the Electronics Packaging Lab of the university. In addition to that Centre of Microtechnical Manufacturing is one of the know-how transfer centres of the Network of Competence Microtechnical Manufacturing.

• Website

• www.dresden-emv.de (German)

At Dresden Infineon develops and produces Chip Card & Security Ics.

• www.infineon.com

• Institute of Photonic Microsystems Dresden
• Institute of Integrated Circuits, Dresden Branch of Design Automation Dresden
• Institute of Material and Beam Technology Dresden
• Institute of Non-Destructive Test Procedures, Dresden Branch of Acoustic Diagnosis and Quality Assurance Dresden
• Project group ASSID (All Silicon System Integration Dresden)of Fraunhofer IZM
• Fraunhofer Research Institution for Organics, Materials and Electronic Devices COMEDD

The Leibniz-Transferverbund Mikroelektronik wants to link the know-how, research activities and infrastructure of a number of institutes in the fields of micro- and optoelectronics.

• www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/mikroelektronik (German)

• Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden
• Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf conducts research on Energy, Health and Matter. Scientific research equipment of national and international importance is operated at the HZDR

• www.hzdr.de

• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Computer Science
• Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Faculty of Mecanical Engineering

SAP Research Dresden contributes significantly to SAP Research topics: Real Time Intelligence, Trillion Node Network, Social Business Networks, Digital Manufacturing, Platforms, and Big Data. The location in Dresden also hosts the Future Factory Initiative living lab.

• www.sap.com

The Zentrum virtueller Maschinenbau (ZVM) does research on virtual reality to support cooperative product develpmoent by using an integrative software basis.

• www.tu-dresden.de (German)

• GWT mbH Association for Knowledge and Technology Transfer at TU Dresden
• Centre for Applied Research and Technology (ZAFT e.V.)
• Dresden exists
• Transfer Point of the TU Dresden
• Patent Information Centre Dresden
• Steinbeis Transfer Center Marketing Consulting, Market Research, Knowledge Transfer
• Business incubators and technology centers