Greater Berlin: microelectronics, microsystem technology, photonics, telecommunications and software, clean tech, photovoltaics

Greater Dresden: the most significant computer chip region in Europe, advanced materials, clean tech

Chemnitz: high technology for mechanical engineering and the automotive industry, mechatronics, adaptronics

Thuringia: microsystem technology, nanotechnology and optoelectronics, photovoltaics

The most important location advantages: dense network of many of Germany’s best universities and research institutions; excellent, skilled and highly motivated labor potential