We drove out to the ‘Yachthafen Hannover’ – not to watch the boats sail by, but to visit two entrepreneurs who are working hard on the success of their recently founded enterprise 4Dmagic – Dynamic Entersalement GmbH & Co. KG – with a view of the water and a great deal of passion.

Some ideas are born when a wonderfully simple solution to an everyday problem comes to you in a flash. This certainly applies to Fidlock, a developer of magnetic-mechanical fasteners that can be conveniently opened with one hand, save time and score extra points for their high level of security.

Any one who says you need years of experience in the gastronomy segment to open your own shop selling healthy and delicious food, can learn a lesson from love.it.healthy. Here, regionally-sourced products meet fresh recipes – and the result is excellent food of all kinds.

A mobile machine tool increases efficiency in the production of large components. This offers enormous advantages in the automotive and aerospace industries and the mechanical engineering segment.

We were wondering what’s been going on in Hanover’s e-Commerce segment. To find out, we decided to pay a visit to Connox in Hanover’s city centre – one of the market-leading online stores in the home design segment.

Convenience, safety and mobility – and the deliciously smoky flavour so typical of barbecued foods: The benchmark was set high for the barbecue grills made by Grillson – but the outcome was crowned with success. The model they came up with was a world’s first – a barbecue grill with app control.

Eghlima Kiaei has a masters degree in biomedicine. So you wouldn’t really expect her to have launched a start-up baking American-style cupcakes. But she was so taken by the little round cakes on a trip to America that she decided to turn her passion into a business.

In the meantime, the three friends and product designers, Jonas Ette, Simon Kux and Timm Prigge, have been the brains behind Studio Dreimann in Hanover for the past four years. Their clean and functional design approach already earned the Good Design Award in 2012 and has been honoured twice with the Interior Innovation Award.