Geniu$: The Tech Tycoon Game

In Genius: Unternehmen Physik, your role is to become a inventor-entrepreneur like Siemens, Edison or Daimler by creating your own industrial empire. To do so, you have to build a town, streets, factories, labs, ... and manage all of your company's needs (budget, employees, ...). You start with a small bicycle shop somewhere in the outskirts of Berlin, London, Detroit or one of the other five location the game offers, and the time is the 100-year frame from 1850 till 1950. (mobygames.com)