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The former Michelin site becomes a hub for innovation and transformation. The Cleanetech Innovation Park, which opened in 2022, was created on around 24 hectares. At todays inauguration of the innovation center on the site, Bavarias Minister of Economics Hubert Aiwanger emphasized the importance of this project: The Cleanetech Innovation Park is a prime example of successful transformation. A traditional industrial area became an innovation location that offers space for the creative ideas that our economy needs so urgently. If we want to keep up economically in the future, we have to drive innovations. This is the only way we can secure our competitiveness in the long run. The competition from China and the USA does not sleep. Much more: they specifically attract companies and score with lower corporate taxes, lower labor costs, less bureaucracy and, above all, cheaper energy. We keep against it: with technology and innovation spirit.
The Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs accompanied the transformation of the site right from the start. With the innovation center opened on the site of the Cleantech Innovation Park today, a clear added value for the economy in the Bamberg region could be created. Companies and universities can work hand on projects hand in hand. The potential is enormous, for example in the areas of renewable energies, alternative drives, sustainable production, artificial intelligence and hydrogen technologies. It is crucial that we allow different approaches and remain open to all technologies - because only with real technology openness can we secure our economic success in the long term, said Aiwanger.
The Cleanetech Innovation Park was realized by the Michelin Reifenwerke AG & Co. KGAA together with the city of Hallstadt and the Bamberg district. The concept of the park was developed by a broad alliance of politics, public hands, business, science and chambers. The Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs is already supporting projects on site, such as the SME-Ki experience center, which opens up the potential of artificial intelligence in production and the planned creative center as a counterpart to the innovation center.
