Rostock Business - Dock Here!

The Rostock Business and Technology Development GmbH was founded to promote the city of Rostock and its business. The task is clear: Attract investors to start business! That means to present Rostock as an attractive business location to potential investors and to help them setting up their branches or plants.

The basis of a new strategy has been realised with the start of the company in June 2003. The company concentrates on four major fields: Acquisition of investors, regional marketing, technology promotion and development, portfolio development and commercialisation of business premises. The company started its work by analysing the existing conditions for business in Rostock. That means the assembly of relevant arguments and information as well as benchmarking and knotting of a small meshed network. To become a competent partner, investors can rely on, it is necessary to focus on specific regions and branches that fit in the existing mix of branches located in the city and its closest region. As Rostock is an attractive business location there are numerous national as well as international companies working in different business fields e.g. service sector, logistics, transport, biotechnology. The company strives to get in touch with this local business environment and local and regional multipliers to create a transparent community of all branches. Getting in touch, one tries to find out what the needs are and to provide the respective company with a proper solution.

The promotion of technology is another important issue that is going to be realised by an own department within the company. Rostock wants to concentrate on its four major "clusters": 1. biotechnology, health care and medicine, 2. maritime business (offshore, fishing), 3. logistics and transport, 4. service sector and tourism. The intention is to network the knowledge carriers and to enable the

transfer of scientific knowledge between research and industry. This encloses a close co-operation with centers of technology and the composition of specific technology clusters. As the Internet evolves more and more to a very important medium of information it is obvious that the most relevant data and figures about Rostock have to be displayed in a database structured by branch clusters on the website of the company. The information to be found includes data on premises, business figures, contacts in respective business fields and the organisation and reflection offairs.