Links to help choose a location

The Business Founders' Portal Northwest (Gründerportal Nordwest) contains extensive information and numerous funding offers for start-up entrepreneurs and those founding a new company. It aims to make it easier for those interested in founding a business to get an overview of start-up related events, contacts and the latest information.

EZN Erfinderzentrum Norddeutschland GmbH offers companies, universities and colleges, start-up entrepreneurs and scientists a practically relevant service. Its experienced engineers are the first port of call to obtain advice and an objective assessment of ideas, new technologies and their marketing.

In the e-services portal Bürger- und Unternehmensservice Niedersachsen (BUS), interested citizens or companies can find information about public administration services in a fast and uncomplicated manner. As a company, for example, you can obtain information there about approval procedures and you will also be pointed in the direction of the appropriate authority or relevant government office. You will also find the necessary forms to take care of the administrative formalities online.

The task of the GAGs (Gutachterausschüsse für Grundstückswerte) is to generate transparency in the real estate market by enabling citizens, government bodies and companies to obtain important information about real estate values by means of market value appraisals, standard ground values (registered land values) and other valuation data.

With its Funding Database (Förderdatenbank), the German federal government provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the funding programmes for the business sector offered by the federal government, by the federal state governments, and by the European Union. Independent of the funding level or the funding provider, the funding activities are summarised according to uniform criteria in a consistent presentation form.

The Association of Niedersachsen Chambers of Industry and Commerce (“Niedersächsische Industrie- und Handelskammertag” or NIHK) offers a business tax (German: Gewerbesteuer) calculator tool on its website with which the local business (or trade) tax collection rates of all the municipalities and local authorities in Niedersachsen can be determined and compared. The Excel tool also calculates how these tax assessment rates have developed during the last 30 years. The calculator (“ Gewerbesteuer-Rechner Niedersachsen”) can be downloaded free of charge.

With the "Atlas of Business Locations in Lower Saxony" (Standortatlas Niedersachsen), the NORD/LB Regional Economics department provides an electronic marketing tool for Niedersachsen. Both hard and soft location factors are presented in the rubrics Economy, Education and Innovation, Tourism and Culture, Regions, and Infrastructure. With a map-based research tool, the contents such as the KomSIS business sites are depicted according to regions and provide a clear overview over what Niedersachsen has to offer investors and visitors.

The centre (Innovationszentrum Niedersachsen GmbH) has been working since 2003 as an independent consultant and think tank for the Niedersachsen state government.
A priority focus: pioneering key technologies with major significance for companies in the state.

The Niedersachsen Innovation Network aims to support and consolidate the work of the various innovation promoters, technology transfer and technology advice offices operating in Niedersachsen through increased collaboration and by linking the information sources and communication systems.

The portal offers structured preliminary information on research and development at the universities and colleges and at the extra-university research facilities in Niedersachsen.