Economic Strength

Nuremberg, the second-largest city in Bavaria and the thirteenth-largest municipality in Germany, particularly since the EU Eastern expansion, has profited from its central location within the European economic region. With 500,000 inhabitants, Nuremberg is the Northern Bavarian economic, services and cultural centre, as well as being the centre of a conurbation of about 2.5 million inhabitants.

The strengths of the Nuremberg economic region lie in the fields of communication and multimedia, traffic engineering and logistics, energy and environment, power electronics and service industry. Nuremberg's expertise, particularly in some seminal technologies, ranks among the top in Europe. Valuable impetus is given by research institutes located in the Nuremberg region, such as for example the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits.