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• Expedite planning and approvals procedures: one-stop shopping for start-up
and/or relocating companies.
• Substantially boost the level of employment.
4.5 The Current Situation
Without any doubt, the Technology Center, the Technology Park, and the Dort-
mund-Project constitute key elements of Dortmund's successful restructuring and
recovery in economic terms after the collapse of traditional industries in the last
30 years. However, it has to be stressed again and again that it worked out so well
due to various actors from different sectors of the society who worked together in a
coherent manner:
• The City
• Financial institutions
• Chambers of Commerce
• Universities and Research Institutes.
No single actor can achieve what has been achieved so far. However, a few
additional remarks are in order.
Technology center and park are focusing on areas and companies of modern
high technology. This requires close contact to research entities which are avail-
able in Dortmund such as:
• TU Dortmund University, the University of Applied Science.
• Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology.
• Two
Fraunhofer
Institutes
for
Logistics
and
Information
Technologies,
respectively.
• Two Leibniz Institutes for Analytical Science and, Working Environments, and
Human Factors, respectively.
Various financing schemes have been established and are still being used.
Venture capital and seed funds were made available by local institutions. In
addition, a combination of investments from the city of Dortmund, the regional
state of North Rhine-Westphalia and European Structure Funds is being applied to
secure the financial basis.
Technology Center and the Dortmund-Project, in cooperation with the above
scientific
partners
have
successfully
initiated
several
so-called
''Competence
Centres'' which are medium-sized high-tech clusters.
The BioMedizinZentrumDortmund, in English—the Bio Medical Center
Dortmund, is a recent Biotech-Cluster that is located on the campus of TU
Dortmund University which also offers a well-known academic program in the
field of biotechnology. About 30 biotech companies enjoy proximity to research
institutes
of
world-wide
reputation,
to
name
the
Max-Planck
Institute
for
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