“Through our companies and our Hamburg Ambassador Petra Vorsteher, we have developed connections to the region. This also includes the fact that the North has a local liaison office and is showing its colors.Īccording to Frank Horch, Hamburg’s Minister for Economics, Transport and Innovation, Silicon Valley is one of the most important locations for the IT and high-tech industry worldwide. Schrödter continues, “Now we have to strengthen and deepen the contacts and relations between San Francisco and Schleswig-Holstein”. Ulf Kämpfer for the intensively nurtured town twinning between Kiel, the state capital, and San Francisco, as well as the enormous commitment of the “The Bay Areas” association. In this context, he also thanked Kiel’s Lord Mayor Dr. “It’s simply about opening the door to the most innovative region in the world for us,” says Schrödter. To this end, staff members in San Francisco will cooperate closely with their colleagues from the Business Development and Technology Transfer Corporation of Schleswig-Holstein (WTSH) in Kiel. Thilo Rohlfs, Secretary of State for Economics and Technology, the aim of the project, which is initially limited to three years, is to network companies from Silicon Valley and San Francisco with players from northern Germany.
On this occasion, the head of the Schleswig-Holstein State Chancellery, Dirk Schrödter, will lead a delegation of around 60 business and scientific representatives to San Francisco. In San Francisco, both federal states will open the Northern Germany Innovation Office Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg together with other participants on August 28. (August 25, 2018)Ĭompanies and innovative founders from Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg will from now on have a contact point at one of the most important locations of the IT and high-tech industry worldwide.
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