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The Ministry of Economics Labor and Housing started the competition procedure to select a location for the innovation park KI Artificial Intelligence Baden-Wrttemberg. The Council of Ministers had previously decided on December 1 to support the accelerated implementation of the KI Innovation Park with 50 million euros from the reserve Zukunftsland BW - Stronger out of the crisis of the second supplementary budget 202021.Thanks to the resolutions of the State Parliament and the Council of Ministers we can today give the official starting signal for the rapid implementation of the KI Baden-Wrttemberg Innovation Park. I am very grateful to everyone involved for this. Speed is a key success factor in the implementation as became clear in the feasibility study. The next few years will be decisive for which regions can secure the largest world market shares in the global market for AI-based products and services. Baden-Wrttemberg should play an important role here said Minister of Economic Affairs Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut.It is our goal that the KI Innovation Park will be implemented in 2021. As the largest single measure of the state government to promote innovation in the last few decades the project underpins our claim to be at the forefront of the huge global future market for artificial intelligence especially economically the minister continued.The accelerated implementation of the KI innovation park as part of the economic stimulus package would ideally combine the strengthening of the countrys future viability with the aim of overcoming the economic consequences of the pandemic quickly. With the rapid implementation of the AI innovation park we want to make an effective contribution to overcoming the economic consequences of the pandemic as quickly as possible and to bring Baden-Wrttemberg into a leading position in AI value creation said Hoffmeister-Kraut.Stakeholders who want to accelerate the implementation of the KI innovation park with start-up funding from the state can take part in the competition process. As part of the competition process the competition participants are required to develop a content concept for the KI innovation park. In addition to structural aspects considerations about the operator structure and technical infrastructure are also required. The development of a viable financing concept and an economically sustainable business model is of central importance. In the competition procedure information on the area s and location of the KI innovation park are also relevant.The competition is not only legally secure it is above all innovative and efficient. Because it will show at which location and with which partners the greatest impact for Artificial Intelligence can be achieved in Baden-Wrttemberg. The decisive factor is how the greatest leverage effect for cooperation innovation location quality and sustainability can be achieved with public funding said Ute Jasper from the law firm Heuking Khn Ler Wojtek who legally supports the location selection process.Further informationAs a world-class value creation center the KI Innovation Park is intended to create optimal conditions for the largest possible part of the global value creation potential to be realized in Baden-Wrttemberg and for the state to become one of the leading development locations for innovative AI products and services. The AI innovation park should not only give a big boost to innovation and value creation in AI it should also set international standards in climate protection sustainability diversity and the important ethical questions of artificial intelligence.
