The Minister of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Prof. Dr. Pinkwart, welcomes you to this year Start.up! Germany Tour! From November 14th – 17th, 2021, a selected group of brave, enthusiastic and like-minded entrepreneurs from all over the world will have the opportunity to explore digitally and visually some of Germany’s most promising hotspots for both startups and “old economy”: North Rhine-Westphalia. Within Start.up! Germany Tour 2021 foreign startups will get to know large corporations, multinational companies and representatives of the “German Mittelstand”. Furthermore they will get an insight into the location NRW and its vibrating Rhine-Ruhr region.