State institutions, associations

The team from “Innovationszentrum Niedersachsen Strategie und Ansiedlung GmbH” assists companies intending to locate in Niedersachsen. Experts provide extensive and free advice as well as ongoing support during the entire course of the settlement process. This offer extends from project consulting over help in finding a business location and property and appropriate networking within the economic region to the practical realisation of the settlement. In addition, companies are also helped with the development of partnerships, cooperations and joint ventures. As an independent adviser and think tank for the Niedersachsen state government, the team collaborates closely with the Niedersachsen Ministry of Economics, Labour and Transport as well as the regional and local economic development agencies in Niedersachsen, the chambers of industry and commerce, and further state networks.

The NBank bundles know-how in business promotion and employment market promotion, company financing and the markets in Niedersachsen. The NBank is the central instrument of the Niedersachsen state government for consolidating and enhancing the state's economic strength. The institute works together with chambers of industry and commerce, professional associations, local government business promoters and credit institutes. The NBank gives advice on funding possibilities provided by the European Union, federal government, state government, and the local authorities.

The NLT (Niedersächsischer Landkreistag e.V. ) is the association of Niedersachsen's 37 administrative districts and the Region Hannover alliance. As a local government umbrella organisation, it represents the interests and presents the concerns of its members to the state parliament and the state government. The tasks of the NLT include defending the preservation of local government self-administration, consultation in the preparation and implementation of laws, regulations, ordinances and decrees, insofar as these affect the interests of its members, dealing with issues relating to the organisation and economic efficiency of administration, and promoting awareness of the administrative institutions among its members.

The task of the Niedersächsische Städtetag e.V. (NST) alliance is to represent the interests and communicate the concerns of the cities, towns, municipalities and integrated municipalities to the federal state government and the state parliament. The tasks of the NST include collaborating with the other local government umbrella organisations in the working group of Niedersachsen's local government umbrella organisations. Through its subsidiary, Innovative Stadt GmbH, the association offers seminars and issues publications.

NGlobal is a state organisation for the coordinated domestic and international marketing of Niedersachsen as a business location. Its central tasks are the promotion of foreign trade, attracting investment, location marketing, and national and international trade show activities. As a direct point of contact, NGlobal serves as a link to German and foreign companies. Through consultation and ongoing support measures, firms in Niedersachsen are assisted in gaining a foothold on the international market or in consolidating their already existing activities abroad. The mission of NGlobal also includes building up and expanding worldwide networks.

The NBB (Niedersächsische Bürgschaftsbank GmbH)  is a Niedersachsen industry funding institution that has set itself the objective of providing the necessary start-up or expansion capital for promising entrepreneurial ideas in Niedersachsen's small and medium-sized enterprises.

Das NLS (Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen) provides detailed and up-to-date regional statistical information about the federal state of Niedersachsen.

The task of the Economics Ministry consists in promoting and consolidating the competitiveness and the business structure in Niedersachsen. Among other things, the Ministry carries out the strategic tasks of the federal state related to economic and business promotion, the general and industry-specific economic policy, the regional and EU-related structural policy and the foreign trade policy. The core areas of the Ministry are structured into 29 departmental divisions and the four chief departments of “Economic and Labour Market Policy”, “Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises”, “Industry” and “Transport”. The contacts in these areas are specified in an organisational chart accessible on the Ministry's Internet presentation.

NLG (Niedersächsische Landgesellschaft mbH) is a non-profit settlement company for the development of the rural region. The company's diverse tasks lie, among other areas, in the fields of agricultural building measures, land use management, local government projects and rural housing construction.

With typically silent partnerships, the company Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Niedersachsen (MBG) mbH supports companies in the financing of both investment and innovative measures. As a publicly funded provider of business participations, the MBG offers conditions for equity holdings that are oriented around the current market situation and the individual risk profile of a company.