The opening of BER Airport in the south-east of Berlin will mark the beginning of a new era for the city‘s current main Airport Tegel (TXL). The soon-to-be-closed airport will reopen its doors having been transformed into a space for envisioning and designing the future of urban planning strategies and solutions. It will become Berlin TXL - The Urban Tech Republic, a research and industrial park for the city of the future.
Increasing urbanisation, demographic change, and other issues pose significant challenges to successful urban planning. We need new solutions for managing mobility, energy and resources, and we also need new materials and intelligent systems to develop and manage these solutions. Berlin TXL – The Urban Tech Republic will focus on providing a space for these innovative approaches to evolve. It will become a hub where start-ups will meet with interdisciplinary university research and industrial companies, and where students will encounter engineers and forward-looking thinkers from across the sciences. Through this, it will enable the development of creative solutions for the urban scenarios of tomorrow and allow them to be experienced on site.
LSE Enterprise was actively engaged as a strategic advisor during the initial planning phase. In addition, LSE Enterprise continues to consult and offer advisory services in order to support the overall development and coordination of the ‘Smart City’ Concept, an initiative by the Land of Berlin. LSE Enterprise’s consultancy expertise, access to cutting-edge academic research and connections to the private, as well as the higher education, sector, allow us to support the TXL evolution and to contribute to cultivating a world-leading space for ideas, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Above all, LSE Enterprise activities and cooperation in the field amount to significant and impactful expertise in urban strategic planning. Research clusters and academic dialogue platforms, such as LSE Cities and the LSE Intelligent City Forum, and the close-knit cooperation with InnoZ, the Innovation Centre for Mobility and Societal Change in Berlin, assure that our consulting services respond and adapt to the fast-paced changes in urban development, locally as well as globally.