The Digital Hub Industry Bremen (DHI) was founded in 2022. In cooperation with the Bremen Senate, the University of Bremen, Lenze SE and encoway, the aim is to drive forward the digital transformation in industry. The hub has now reached another significant milestone: the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) has included it in the Digital Hub Initiative (de:hub initiative). The award was presented at the Start-up Germany Summit in Berlin on September 17.
Driving forward the digital transformation in industry. Connecting talents, makers and companies and enabling new business models – these are the goals of the Digital Hub Industry Bremen (DHI). The hub has now reached another significant milestone: the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) has included it in the Digital Hub Initiative (de:hub-Initiative), a nationwide digital ecosystem. Christoph Ranze, Managing Director of encoway and DHI Board Member, and Bremen State Councillor Maike Frese accepted the award in Berlin on September 17.
Lenze CEO Christian Wendler is also delighted with the addition. “The hub is a
important platform for the effective transfer between science and business and the industrial, SME-oriented focus fits in perfectly with the Lenze Group’s innovation strategy.” Since 2022, the DHI in Bremen has offered low-threshold access to a broad-based innovation ecosystem designed for digital technologies, transfer and collaboration.
Digital transformation through collaboration
Small and medium-sized industrial companies (SMEs) in particular are facing challenges in a volatile market environment. For them, it is a question of managing day-to-day business and developing innovations at the same time. The Digital transformation offers enormous potential here – but only works for SMEs through collaboration. “We know from experience: Transfer and transformation require clever minds and excellent content. That’s why we created the DHI as a beacon that cleverly connects industrial companies, start-ups, researchers and young talent,” says Christoph Ranze, Managing Director of encoway, describing the hub’s objective.
The positive impact of the Digital Hub Industry is clearly noticeable two years after its opening – and has been given the next boost with its inclusion in the de:hub initiative. The centerpiece of the approx. 16,000 m² of office, laboratory and event space is an Open Innovation Lab with coworking and maker spaces. The active regional start-up scene makes extensive use of the spaces, including the first successful start-ups are already being created in the hub.
