Northern Germany Innovation Office

Your competent partner on the way to digitization

NGIO is supported by the German states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen, the City of Kiel, and by companies from northern Germany.

The Business Development and Technology Transfer Corporation of Schleswig-Holstein is responsible for the implementation and control of the office.

Partners of Northern Germany Innovation Office

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Our Mission

The Northern Germany Innovation Office is the bridge for innovation-oriented companies between Northern Germany and Silicon Valley. We connect people, ideas and companies.

More information about our mission

Our Network

With our expertise in the areas of digitization and trend scouting and the German American Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco as partners, we have numerous contacts to companies, start-ups, universities etc. to support medium-sized companies from Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen in identifying new business models, establishing networks and finding business partners.

Our Service

Digitization

The Northern Germany Innovation Office supports you in designing and running a successful innovation strategy by drawing from experiences and insights from Silicon Valley.

Interesting technologies

We help you identifying interesting technologies.

Innovative solutions

We help you identifying interesting solutions.

Networks & business partners

We give you access to relevant networks and potential business partners.

Recipes for success

We offer you insights into the ways of thinking and working as well as best-practices and lessons learned from successful Silicon Valley companies.

Companies & start-ups

Conversely, we offer support for American companies and start-ups interested in cooperation with northern German partners or in starting operations in northern Germany.