Jena Business Development - JenaWirtschaft - offers a comprehensive and competent business service for local and new companies. With our 10 years of expertise in Jena, we can advise you on all matters related to business and support your investement in Jena. We also actively promote Jena as a technology location.









Domenique Dölz
cluster manager digital business and science

Viktoriya Demchyk
Projektassistentin Digitale Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft

Cornelia Meyerrose
Head of skilled employee service Welcome Center Jena






Jena Business Development - Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Jena mbH, is a municipal company. Its shareholders are the City of Jena (95%) and the Sparkasse Jena-Saale-Holzland (5%). A supervisory board, consisting of representatives of the economy, science and city council, determines the orientation and tasks of Jena Business Development.
Supervisory Board:
- Chairman: Dr. Thomas Nitzsche, Oberbürgermeister Stadt Jena
- Michael Rabich, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors Sparkasse Jena-Saale-Holzland
- Mihajlo Kolakovic, Managing Director KOLAKOVIC & PARTNER Personalberatung
- Prof. Dr. Jürgen Popp, Director Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e. V.
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Marx, President Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
- Dr. Holger Becker, SPD
- Stephanie Hänsch, representative of the economy at the suggestion of the IHK Ostthüringen
- Manuela Vogt, representative of the economy at the suggestion of the IHK Ostthüringen, Kreishandwerkerschaft Jena Saale Holzland
- Jens Fischer
- Prof. Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert
- Wolfgang Volkmer