Jena Wirtschaft
""
1.
Orientation
2.
Business Plan
3.
Start-Up
4.
Success

How do I get started? Realizing your vision.

A good idea always comes first. In Jena, entrepreneurs receive active support. Technology and start-up centers, extensive consulting services as well as various additional programmes are designed to support the launch of your own business. Even though every start-up has its own individual details, there is always a “common thread” how to proceed.

The first steps should be given careful consideration: An Overview

(c) Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy

The pictograms on the right show the important steps on the road to professional self-employment (10 steps to starting your business):

1. Self-employment: yes or no?
2. Check: Does your business idea work?
3. Before the start: get informed and seek advice
4. Plan your business
5. Calculate your seed capital
6. Raise seed capital
7. Register your business, apply for permits
8. Plan your taxes
9. Insure your business & yourself
10. After starting: seek advice and get support

There are many good reasons to start-up your own business. All aspiring entrepreneurs should consider carefully in advance why they want to become self-employed. Both personal and professional qualifications have to be right. To find out whether you would be a good entrepreneur you can first speak with family and friends, and then move onto self-employed professionals you know. With your start-up consultant you can further discuss your findings. The focus should be on your own entrepreneurial skills as well as matching your perceptions of being self-employed with the reality of business life.

This orientation process should also take different paths to self-employment into consideration. For some a part-time business might make sense while others will start into full-time self-employment right from the beginning. Then there is the question whether a new business, a spin-off or rather a company succession would be a better fit.

At the end you should be able to make a clear decision for or against starting your own business.

Gründungsberatung in Jena

Die Gründungsberater und Beraterinnen helfen individuell – von der Erstberatung, über die Businessplanerstellung bis hin zu Marketingfragen und Weiterbildungsangeboten. Die nachfolgende Übersicht der Beratungsstellen für Gründungsinteressierte in Jena ist nach den Zielgruppen für die einzelnen Angebote sortiert.

IHK Ostthüringen zu Gera
Gaswerkstr. 23
07546 Gera

 

Teamfoto ThEx Enterprise Jena

Ansprechpartner: Frank Lenz
Tel.: 0365 / 8553-211
Fax: 0365 / 8553-77211
E-Mail: lenz(at)gera.ihk.de
Webseite: IHK Ostthüringen zu Gera - Gründungen

Weitere Sprachen:

  • Beratung erfolgt in Deutsch
  • Schriftliche Informationsblätter in Deutsch, Englisch, Türkisch und Polnisch erhältlich

Leistungen:

  • Erstinformation in Vortragsform 9:00 - 10:30 - 1. und 3. Montag im Monat - Bildungszentrum Zeitzer Str. 2, 07743 Jena
  • Einzelberatungen zur Idee, dem Konzept und allen Ansprechpartnern
  • weiterführende Unterstützung durch die Fachberater der Kammer, Finanzierung/Recht/Innovation
  • Vermittlung im Rahmen des Netzwerkes ThEx - Thüringer Zentrum für Existenzgründungen und Unternehmertum

Handwerkskammer für Ostthüringen
Handwerkstr. 5
07545 Gera

Ansprechpartnerin: Petra Vetterlein
Tel.: 0365 / 8225-173
Mobil: 0160 / 742 9507
Fax: 0365 / 8225-199
E-Mail: vetterlein(at)hwk-gera.de
Webseite: HWK für Ostthüringen - Existenzgründung

Leistungen:
Betriebswirtschaftliche Beratung, insbesondere:

  • Unternehmensgründungen, Gründungen im Zuge von Unternehmensnachfolgen
  • Unternehmensnachfolgen
  • Controlling
  • Fördermittel
  • Unternehmensfinanzierungen / Investitionen

parisat - ThEx Enterprise
August-Bebel-Str. 10
07743 Jena

Swen Köcher
Gründerprämiencoach
Tel.: 03641 / 636 682
Mobil: 0152 / 566 581 96
E-Mail: skoecher(at)parisat.de
Webseite: ThEx Enterprise

Weitere Sprachen: Englisch

Katharina Heinecke
Projektkoordinatorin allgemeine Gründungsbegleitung
Tel.: 3641 / 636 682
Mobil: 174 / 21 83 166
E-Mail: kheinecke@parisat.de
Webseite: ThEx Enterprise

Josefine Pfletscher
Schwerpunkt: Gründen im Team
Tel.: 3641 / 636 682
Mobil: 174 / 21 83 166
E-Mail: jepfletscher@parisat.de
Webseite: ThEx Enterprise

Leistungen:

  • Hilfestellung bei Erstellung von Geschäftskonzepten und Finanzplänen
  • Seminare und Workshops zur Vermittlung von unternehmensspezifischem Wissen
  • Fördermittelberatung (auch Ansprechpartner für die Gründerprämie)
  • Fachkundige StelleVernetzungstreffen

parisat - ThEx Enterprise
August-Bebel-Str. 10
07743 Jena

Contact: Swen Köcher
Tel.: 03641 / 636 682
Mobile: 0152 / 566 581 96
Email: skoecher(at)parisat.de
Website: ThEx Enterprise

Further Languages: English

Katharina Heinecke
Projektkoordinatorin allgemeine Gründungsbegleitung
Tel.: 3641 / 636 682
Mobil: 174 / 21 83 166
E-Mail: kheinecke@parisat.de
Webseite: ThEx Enterprise

Josefine Pfletscher
Schwerpunkt: Gründen im Team
Tel.: 3641 / 636 682
Mobil: 174 / 21 83 166
E-Mail: jepfletscher@parisat.de
Webseite: ThEx Enterprise

Leistungen:

  • Hilfestellung bei Erstellung von Geschäftskonzepten und Finanzplänen
  • Seminare und Workshops zur Vermittlung von unternehmensspezifischem Wissen
  • Fördermittelberatung (auch Ansprechpartner für die Gründerprämie)
  • Fachkundige StelleVernetzungstreffen

IHK Ostthüringen zu Gera (Chamber of Industry and Trades)
Gaswerkstr. 23
07546 Gera

Contact: Frank Lenz
Tel.: 0365 / 8553-211
Fax: 0365 / 8553-77211
Email: lenz(at)gera.ihk.de
Website: IHK Ostthüringen zu Gera - Start-up support

Further Languages:

  • Consulting in German only
  • Print materials also available in English, Turkish and Polish

Services:

  • Presentation (German only) with basic start-up information 9-10:30 am – 1st and 3rd Monday every month (Location: Bildungszentrum Zeitzer Str. 2, 07743 Jena)
  • One-on-one consulting for business idea, concept and relevant contacts
  • Further assistance through chamber experts, Finance/Law/Innovation
  • Liaison within the ThEx network (Thuringian Center for Start-ups and Entrepreneurship)

Handwerkskammer (Chamber of Trades)
Handwerkstr. 5
07545 Gera

Contact: Petra Vetterlein
Tel.: 0365 / 8225-173
Mobile: 0160 / 742 9507
Fax: 0365 / 8225-199
Email: vetterlein(at)hwk-gera.de
Website: HWK für Ostthüringen - Existenzgründung

Business consulting, in particular:

  • Start-ups incl. succession planning
  • Controlling
  • Public funding
  • Business funding / Investments

Agentur für Arbeit Jena (Federal Employment Agency Jena)
Koordination Existenzgründungsförderung
Stadtrodaer Str. 1
07749 Jena

 

 

Contact: Manuela Schrodt
Tel.: 03641 / 379 621
Email: Jena.BCA(at)arbeitsagentur.de
Website: Agentur für Arbeit Jena

 

Services:

The Federal Employment Agency Jena provides information for self-employment under the following conditions:

  • to recipients of the “Gründungszuschuss” (§§ 93 ff. SGB III)
  • during compulsorily insured status upon request (§ 28a SGB III voluntary unemployment insurance)

 

parisat - ThEx Enterprise
August-Bebel-Str. 10
07743 Jena

Contact: Swen Köcher
Tel.: 03641 / 636 682
Mobile: 0152 / 566 581 96
Email: skoecher(at)parisat.de
Website: ThEx Enterprise

Further Languages: English

Services:

  • Assistance with preparing business and finance plans
  • Seminars and workshops with business-specific content
  • Consulting on public funding (contact for “Gründerprämie”)
  • “Fachkundige Stelle” (expert location)
  • Networking events

jenarbeit - Jobcenter der Stadt Jena
Tatzendpromenade 2a
07745 Jena

Current case management
Webseite: jenarbeit - Existenzgründer und Selbstständige (self-employed)

Katharina Heinecke
Projektkoordinatorin allgemeine Gründungsbegleitung
Tel.: 3641 / 636 682
Mobil: 174 / 21 83 166
E-Mail: kheinecke@parisat.de
Webseite: ThEx Enterprise

Josefine Pfletscher
Schwerpunkt: Gründen im Team
Tel.: 3641 / 636 682
Mobil: 174 / 21 83 166
E-Mail: jepfletscher@parisat.de
Webseite: ThEx Enterprise

SOBAEXA Coworking UG
Carl-Zeiss-Platz 3
07743 Jena

 

 

Contact: Daniela Scheler
Mobile: 0152 / 019 742 74
Email: info(at)sobaexa-coworking.de
Website: SOBAEXA-Coworking

Further Languages: English, Spanish

 

 

Services:

  • Consulting for entrepreneurs-to-be and non-profit organizations, in particular for Liberal Professions (Freie Berufe) incl. healthcare professions
  • Preparation of business plans
  • Consulting on securing sustainable livelihood
  • Rental of group and seminar room, (shared) offices, Coworking spaces with flexible conditions in central location
  • Workshops and networking events

Kombinat 01 | Coworking GmbH
Westbahnhof-Str. 13
07745 Jena

Contact: Benny Beyer
Tel.: 03641 / 7979-110
Fax: 03641 / 7979-129
Email: startup(at)kombinat01.de
Website: Kombinat 01

Services:

  • Consulting for creatives and freelancers
  • Analysis of consulting needs and the business idea
  • Development of business model, preparation of business plan
  • Consulting on public funding
  • Coworking space at Kombinat Süd and access to our network
  • Trainings, seminars and workshops

parisat - ThEx Enterprise
August-Bebel-Str. 10
07743 Jena

Contact: Swen Köcher
Tel.: 03641 / 636 682
Mobile: 0152 / 566 581 96
Email: skoecher(at)parisat.de
Website: ThEx Enterprise

Further Languages: English

Services:

  • Assistance with preparing business and finance plans
  • Seminars and workshops with business-specific content
  • Consulting on public funding (contact for “Gründerprämie”)
  • “Fachkundige Stelle” (expert location)
  • Networking events

BDS Thüringen e.V.
BDS.akademie
Rathenauplatz 6
99423 Weimar

Contact: Gisbert Sachs
Tel.: 03643 / 851 221
Mobile: 0170 / 221 4785
Email: bds.akademie(at)t-online.de
Website: BDS Akademie

Further Languages: English

Services:

  • Consulting for entrepreneurs-to-be
  • Seminars for entrepreneurs (with certificate)
  • Assistance with business plans
  • “Fachkundige Stelle” (expert location)

Katharina Heinecke
Projektkoordinatorin allgemeine Gründungsbegleitung
Tel.: 3641 / 636 682
Mobil: 174 / 21 83 166
E-Mail: kheinecke@parisat.de
Webseite: ThEx Enterprise

Josefine Pfletscher
Schwerpunkt: Gründen im Team
Tel.: 3641 / 636 682
Mobil: 174 / 21 83 166
E-Mail: jepfletscher@parisat.de
Webseite: ThEx Enterprise

Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena
(University of Applied Sciences "Ernst Abbe")
Servicezentrum Forschung und Transfer (SZT)
Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 2
07745 Jena

 

 

Contact: Dipl.-Kfm. André Kabeck
Tel.: 03641 / 205 127
Fax: 03641 / 205 126
Email: gruenderservice(at)eah-jena.de
Website: Consultancy for founders at EAH Jena

Further Languages: English

 

Services:

  • Start-up consulting, review and development of business ideas
  • Support with developing the business model and business plan
  • Consulting on financing and public funding
  • Application for EXIST-funding
  • Consulting on property rights and patent information service
  • Workshops and lectures
  • Startup-specific sources of information and databases
  • Access to joint stands at trade fairs
  • Contacts to investors, network partners and businesses

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
(Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Servicezentrum Forschung und Transfer
K1 - DER GRÜNDERSERVICE
Kahlaische Straße 1
07745 Jena
 

Contact: Dr. Oliver Pänke
Tel.: 03641 / 930 869
Email: gruenderservice(at)uni-jena.de
Website: K1 - Der Gründerservice der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Further Languages: English

Ansprechpartner: Ralf Schindeck
Tel.: 03641 / 9 402 120
E-Mail: gruenderservice(at)uni-jena.de
Webseite: K1 - Der Gründerservice der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Weitere Sprachen: Englisch

Services:

  • Start-up consulting, review and development of business idea, preparation of business plan
  • Consulting on financing and public funding
  • Application for EXIST-funding and EXIST research transfer
  • Consulting on property rights and patent information service
  • Mentoring and scientific support of business launch
  • Workshops and lectures
  • Contacts to investors (Business-Angels & Venture Capitalists), network partners, facilitating the exchange of experiences with other entrepreneurs
  • Availability of free office space for idea development (“FreiRaum”)

BDS Thüringen e.V.
BDS.akademie
Rathenauplatz 6
99423 Weimar

 

 

Contact: Gisbert Sachs
Tel.: 03643 / 851 221
Mobile: 0170 / 221 4785
Email: bds.akademie(at)t-online.de
Website: BDS Akademie

Further Languages: English

 

 

Services:

  • Consulting for entrepreneurs-to-be
  • Seminars for entrepreneurs (with certificate)
  • Assistance with business plans
  • “Fachkundige Stelle” (expert location)

parisat - ThEx Enterprise
August-Bebel-Str. 10
07743 Jena

Contact: Swen Köcher
Tel.: 03641 / 636 682
Mobile: 0152 / 566 581 96
Email: skoecher(at)parisat.de
Website: ThEx Enterprise

Further Languages: English

Services:

  • Assistance with preparing business and finance plans
  • Seminars and workshops with business-specific content
  • Consulting on public funding (contact for “Gründerprämie”)
  • “Fachkundige Stelle” (expert location)
  • Networking events

Katharina Heinecke
Projektkoordinatorin allgemeine Gründungsbegleitung
Tel.: 3641 / 636 682
Mobil: 174 / 21 83 166
E-Mail: kheinecke@parisat.de
Webseite: ThEx Enterprise

Josefine Pfletscher
Schwerpunkt: Gründen im Team
Tel.: 3641 / 636 682
Mobil: 174 / 21 83 166
E-Mail: jepfletscher@parisat.de
Webseite: ThEx Enterprise

parisat - ThEx Enterprise
August-Bebel-Str. 10
07743 Jena

 

 

Contact: Swen Köcher
Tel.: 03641 / 636 682
Mobile: 0152 / 566 581 96
Email: skoecher(at)parisat.de
Website: ThEx Enterprise

Further Languages: English

 

 

Services:

  • Assistance with preparing business and finance plans
  • Seminars and workshops with business-specific content
  • Consulting on public funding (contact for “Gründerprämie”)
  • “Fachkundige Stelle” (expert location)
  • Networking events

 

Stiftung für Technologie, Innovation und Forschung Thüringen (STIFT)
(Foundation for Technology, Innovation and Research Thuringia)
ThEx innovativ
Peterstr. 1
99084 Erfurt

 

 

Contact: Christiane Kilian
Tel.: 0361 / 78923-74
Fax: 0361 / 78923-44
Email: christiane.kilian(at)stift-thueringen.de
Website: ThEx innovativ

 

Services:

  • Startup-specific consulting, coaching and workshops – topics include business model development, qualifications and financing
  • Support with the business launch also in regard to property rights, market entry and expansion
  • Identifying of potential partners, liaison with investors, organization of contests and networking events

TowerConsult GmbH
Leutragraben 1
07743 Jena

Industry: IT

Contact: Dana Lipka
Tel.: 03641 / 573 33 12
Email: d.lipka(at)towerconsult.de
Website: TowerConsult GmbH - Gründungsberatung

Services:

  • Support and consulting on the preparation of business plans and concepts
  • Legal support from compiling a statute to the entry into the commercial register
  • Support with registrations at the Tax & Revenue Office and Trade Office
  • Support with the search for suitable funding opportunities

medways e.V.
Keßlerstr. 21b
07745 Jena

Industry: Medical Engineering

Contact: Dr. Eike Dazert
Tel.: 03641 / 87610-40
Fax: 03641 / 87610-50
Email: info(at)medways.eu
Website: medways e.V.

Services:

  • Evaluation of the business idea, market observation and analysis
  • Consulting on regulatory requirements for certification and licensing
  • Clinical evaluation and assessment
  • Further education, employee training, in-house training on guideline 92/43 EWG as well as on Medical Device Directive (MDD) (“Medizinproduktegesetz“- MPG)
  • Introduction of quality management systems following DN ISO 13 485

OptoNet e.V. - Photonics Network Thuringia
Leutragraben 1
07743 Jena

Industry: Optics & Photonics

Contact: Thomas Bauer
Tel.: 03641 / 573 36 50
Fax: 03641 / 573 36 59
Email: info(at)optonet-jena.de
Website: OptoNet e.V.

Services:

  • Involvement in the regional network and contacts to leading industry representatives
  • Support with the search for potential partners
  • Access to joint stands at international trade shows
  • Support with the application process of public funding from state (“Land”), federal and European government
  • Support with finding qualified staff as well as organizing press and PR activities
  • Free membership for three years after business launch

SpectroNet – International Collaboration Cluster for Global Collaboration in Photonics
c/o Technologie- und Innovationspark Jena GmbH
Wildenbruchstraße 15
07745 Jena

Industry: Photonical Measurement Engineering and Quality Assurance

Contact: M.Eng. Paul-Gerald Dittrich
Tel.: 0175 / 5280 223
Fax: 03641 / 6751 11
Email: pg.dittrich(at)spectronet.de
Website: SpectroNet

Further Languages: English

Services:

  • Collaboration with national and international experts, companies and research institutions
  • Collaboration with high-level business contacts for joint national and international research and development projects
  • Methodical and technical support for national and international research and development projects
  • Measurement laboratory with equipment for feasibility analyzes and studies
  • Conference and training rooms
  • Open digital cluster platform www.spectronet.de
  • Special conditions for Start-Ups

Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena
(University of Applied Sciences "Ernst Abbe")
Servicezentrum Forschung und Transfer (SZT)
Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 2
07745 Jena

Contact: Dipl.-Kfm. André Kabeck
Tel.: 03641 / 205 127
Fax: 03641 / 205 126
Email: gruenderservice(at)eah-jena.de
Website: Consultancy for founders at EAH Jena

Further Languages: English

Services:

  • Start-up consulting, review and development of business ideas
  • Support with developing the business model and business plan
  • Consulting on financing and public funding
  • Application for EXIST-funding
  • Consulting on property rights and patent information service
  • Workshops and lectures
  • Startup-specific sources of information and databases
  • Access to joint stands at trade fairs
  • Contacts to investors, network partners and businesses

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
(Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Servicezentrum Forschung und Transfer
K1 - DER GRÜNDERSERVICE
Kahlaische Straße 1
07745 Jena
 

Contact: Dr. Oliver Pänke
Tel.: 03641 / 930 869
Email: gruenderservice(at)uni-jena.de
Website: K1 - Der Gründerservice der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Further Languages: English

Ansprechpartner: Ralf Schindeck
Tel.: 03641 / 9 402 120
E-Mail: gruenderservice(at)uni-jena.de
Webseite: K1 - Der Gründerservice der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Weitere Sprachen: Englisch

Services:

  • Start-up consulting, review and development of business idea, preparation of business plan
  • Consulting on financing and public funding
  • Application for EXIST-funding and EXIST research transfer
  • Consulting on property rights and patent information service
  • Mentoring and scientific support of business launch
  • Workshops and lectures
  • Contacts to investors (Business-Angels & Venture Capitalists), network partners, facilitating the exchange of experiences with other entrepreneurs
  • Availability of free office space for idea development (“FreiRaum”)