Studienorte - Executive Program in Innovation & Business Creation

Lorenz Hartung

München

Deutschland

Munich is one of the world‘s leading high-tech regions. TUM is embedded in strong export-oriented technology clusters like automotive engineering, aerospace and mechanical engineering, as well as environmentalengineering, nanotechnology and life sciences. A large number of global companies have their headquarters in the region, including Allianz, BMW, Infineon, Linde, MAN and Siemens. Global players as well as small and medium-sized enterprises benefit from Munich‘s universities and outstanding research facilities. They are supported by numerous banks and venture capital companies. The presence of the European and German Patent Offices and various other patent service providers accelerate the process of transforming inventions into innovations.

Leipzig

Deutschland

Entrepreneurship, trade fair management, bioscience, transportation, media and energy companies found a progressive business base in Leipzig. The new BMW and Porsche plants placed Leipzig at the forefront of Germany’s trendiest car industry cluster. Furthermore the city is a major air transport hub.

Silicon Valley

Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

Internationally known companies such as Netscape, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Apple and Google arose in Silicon Valley or chose it as a perfect location. Nowhere else in the world exists such a fertile business environment solely constructed to allow the rapid transformation of ideas to products and afterwards the quickest possible commercialization by foundation of a new company. More than one third of the entire venture capital in the United States is invested in Silicon Valley.