The Business Development and Technology Transfer Corporation of Schleswig-Holstein (WTSH) is your first point of contact for all matters relating to business development in Schleswig-Holstein. We provide you with a comprehensive one-stop service. If you’re an entrepreneur or investor or simply interested in Schleswig-Holstein´s economy, you’ve come to the right website for Germany’s most northerly state: Schleswig-Holstein.

This website tells you more about our state and our service. We assist you in finding the right site for your business. We support you in your innovation processes. We arrange the right contacts.

If you have any questions, we’ve got the answers. If you have any problems, we’ll help you find the solutions – at least in anything to do with business development and technology transfer.

Welcome to Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northerly state and the only one situated between two seas: the North Sea and the Baltic. That unique geographical location and an excellent transport infrastructure make “the state between the seas” an ideal base for import- and export-oriented businesses and international service providers.

Our dynamic “state between the seas” is a leading business and technology location, especially in future-proof industries such as medical, energy or environmental technology and the maritime sector. Small and mid-sizes businesses in particular form the backbone of our economic life.

Jobs for the present and future are being created here on the foundations of first-class research –another reason why we have one of the fastest-growing populations of any German state.

Our broad spectrum of internationally competitive vocational training and university courses offers young people outstanding career opportunities. And last but not least, Schleswig-Holstein is a state for culture vultures and leisure lovers, with five million visitors a year enjoying its scenery, coastlines and fresh air.