Start-Up and Securing Business Success

Promoting fledgling companies and securing the continued success of existing businesses is an important task in the promotion of the local economy and an active job market policy in Essen.

Start-Up Network Essen
Supporting start-ups is the task of many different institutions. In Essen, therefore, a large number of these institutions from different sectors have joined forces in the Start-Up Network Essen (Gründungsnetzwerk Essen) to offer customized support to start ups and fledgling companies.
http://www.gruendungsnetzwerk-essen.de/

Triple Z - ZukunftsZentrumZollverein AG for the promotion of start ups
Centre for establishing start ups and small and medium-sized companies at the Schachtanlage 4/11 in the former Zeche Zollverein mineworks, Essen-Katernberg.
Ground area: approx. 17,000 sqm, space for letting approx. 7,000 sqm. Realization in two construction stages. Premises from 30 sqm for approx. 50 to 70 small companies. Continuous utilization since March 1987 in line with completion ready for occupation. Balanced mixture of different sectors from traditional craft trades to services and high tech companies.
http://www.triple-z.de/

ETEC GmbH
Essener Technologie- und Entwicklungs-Centrum
With the aim of promoting and supporting technology-oriented small and medium-size companies, ETEC (Essen Technology and Development Centre) was set up in Essen in 1985. To date, 22,000 m² office, production, and laboratory areas have been erected in several stages for around 100 technology-oriented companies that translate innovations and new technologies into ready-for-market products and services.
Primarily, ETEC aims to attract business start-ups to Essen newly established companies but it also supports existing small and medium-size companies as well as innovative teams from established major corporations.
http://www.etec.de/

 

The Essen model for targeted early detection of crises and crises management
Within the framework of preventive crisis management, the aim of this model is to offer to all companies in economic difficulties the most effective assistance quickly and unconventionally in all fields that are important to secure the continuation of the business. Since 1995 the EWG - Essener Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft mbH (Essen Economic Development Agency) has acted as a mediator for a continuously growing circle of business and socio-politically relevant parties for this purpose.