Location for hidden champions
Technology transfer is actively practiced in many places, Kaiserslautern has an above-average number of company start-ups from the vicinity of the universities. A large number of highly innovative companies that have grown out of the location provide services that are in demand worldwide. Numerous hidden champions operate - sometimes in secret - very successfully and have developed into world market leaders. It is therefore no wonder that the number of companies and institutions for research and technology settling here has risen steadily in recent years. Theory and practice have long since entered into a profitable alliance, research and industry benefit from excellently trained employees. The opportunity to implement the accumulated knowledge from the two universities and the now eleven research institutions is becoming a valuable success factor for numerous companies.
Innovations "made in KL"
Several thousand people, some of whom are specialists that are in demand worldwide, are employed in the high-tech sector. The logistics for the clothing of armed forces worldwide, high-tech composite materials for the automotive industry or the weighing system that weighs the smallest goods on the assembly line at breakneck speed - these and many other technologies were developed in Kaiserslautern. Kaiserslautern also produces software that archives millions of sound and image documents for television and radio stations or that is used by banks worldwide for securities trading and securities management.