SAP has moved to create an innovation centre in Berlin, the centre which officially opened this week is designed to take advantage of the large student population in the capital and nearby Potsdam.

The centre will develop concept ideas before transforming these ideas into a software solution, while working with the 1,200 start-up companies currently using SAP’s HANA offering.

At the official opening, Prof Hasso Plattner, SAP chairman, said: "SAP has to be close to the 150,000 students in Potsdam and Berlin. It cannot be that we can't find the right people here."

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