Aims & visions
As analyses of the main business fields and expertise areas show, the Lake Constance region presents extraordinary future growth potential in the environmental technology sector. Based on this knowledge, Bodensee Standort Marketing GmbH (Lake Constance Location Marketing) has initiated the Environmental Technology Network “Netzwerk Umwelttechnologie”. It is a regional but also international network that covers the entire value chain for environmental technology in the region of Lake Constance. The Environmental Technology Network “Netzwerk Umwelttechnologie” comprises companies, trade businesses, service providers, universities, research institutions, entrepreneurs and organisations from the environmental sector.
The aims of the network are:
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to improve the connection between businesses and people working in the environmental sector around the lake and strengthen the business region of Lake Constance
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to improve the competitiveness of SMEs and start-ups; to allow them access to new technologies, marketing and customers groups; and to support them with the realisation of innovative product- and business ideas.
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to promote the transfer of know-how and technology among all actors in the environmental sector – this involves, e.g., the development of a cooperation database and subject-related events that join business and research.
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to fully utilise the innovative potential of the business region of Lake Constance through networking, promotion and cooperation.
The visions of the network are:
The Environmental Technology Network “Netzwerk Umwelttechnologie” is to join people in the environmental technology sector around Lake Constance. The network is to become the central communication platform for the environmental technology sector in the countries bordering Lake Constance. Through a high degree of networking and targeted promotion of environmental technologies, the Lake Constance region is to be developed, on medium- and long-term, into one of the most innovative and successful regions for this sector. At the same time, the competitiveness of the business region of Lake Constance on the global market is to be strengthened. Environmental technologies as technologies of the future are to be promoted in a targeted manner in the Lake Constance region and signalise innovative, future-oriented and sustainable economic development beyond the region. Through a focus on the development and use of green technologies, the region invests in a successful combining of economic strength and a high quality of life.
