INNOVATIVE GRE IFSWALD 40 opment of new business models In this context academics love talking about the cluster effect About 240 new high skilled jobs bring positive economic effects to both the city and the region directly and indirectly This is certainly a sustainable invest ment in the future and it will pay off for Greifswald and Mecklenburg Vor pommern in the long term Besides plasma technology the centre will also focus on the bio based business sector This includes every area that produces process es and uses renewable biological resources including agriculture and forestry fisheries and aquaculture the food industry industrial biotech nology and environmental protec tion It will focus on closely linking lab based research and development with technical rooms that are specifi cally geared towards pilot production and the necessary processing facili ties This makes it possible to bridge an aspect of the value chain that has previously been missing i e the step from developing something in a test tube to producing it in minimal or very small quantities The fact that a single building contains a combination of labora tory and technical rooms for the bio economy and plasma technology will be of particular interest giving the centre a unique position in Eu rope Synergies exist for example in treating surfaces for enzyme coating or treating food to reduce contami nation with germs WITENO GmbH a joint subsidiary of the City of Greifswald the Uni versity of Greifswald and the Spar kasse Vorpommern will manage the facility Besides the BioTechnikum Greifswald BTG WITENO also runs the Technology Centre Vorpommern TZV and cowork Greifswald While the TZV is an open industry business centre the BTG is specifically de signed for start ups and new busi nesses in the fields of biotechnology and biomedicine The BioTechnikum which boasts over 4 000m of laboratory and of fice space has been at full capacity for many years and it has a large se lection of shared equipment for its tenants such as cold storage rooms a scullery and special autoclaves The WITENO team s support for tenants and interested parties fo cuses in large part on advising and coaching technology oriented and knowledge based start ups Fur thermore the idea is also to attract companies from outside Greifswald who wish to cooperate with the re search and science community at the Greifswald location The project which will be oper ated in the form of a research ser vice and start up centre encompass ing an area of around 5 500 square metres is seamlessly linked to pro jects carried out by the University Medical Centre and other companies that have become established in Witeno GmbH will manage the facility

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