BioTec - Region Munich

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The BioTech-Region München is one of Germany’s most well known centers for biotechnology, which has made a name for itself through the special potential it offers for excellent biotechnological research and its targeted implementation in industry.

The Biotech-Region centered in Martinsried is a location that is developing at a particularly dynamic rate and currently has over 120 pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to its credit. Owing to a first-rate scientific environment, a large number of international VC companies and attractive financing instruments provided both by the German Federal Government and State of Bavaria, a remarkable number of new businesses are launched here each year. In Martinsried itself, for instance, the number of biotechnological oriented companies has in the past three years risen from 10 to more than 50. This trend has also been accompanied by a marked rise in the number of jobs. While at the beginning of 1997 approximately 125 people found a job in one of the biotech companies in Martinsried, the figure is now well over 1000. In the meantime, more than 1,800 jobs have been created in the whole Munich BioTech-Region.

The breeding grounds for this exemplary boom in the Munich area are first and foremost the academic institutions - the two Munich universities, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the , as well as the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Neurobiology and the Weihenstephan and Munich .

Bio-M AG has a special role to play when it comes to setting up new biotech companies. It provides, for example, free initial advice and in specific cases also offers seed financing for biotechnological start-ups. As the central coordinating agency for the region, BioM AG also helps biotech companies in their search for cooperating partners and investors and it offered assistance with obtaining support funds from the BioRegio Program.

The many players from the fields of science, industry, capital markets and politics in the BioTech-Region themselves make up the vital network, in which new business ideas receive extensive and diversified support thus enabling them to be successfully accomplished.

Developments have shown that the biotechnology center in Munich is well on its way to becoming one of the leading biotechnology locations in Germany, if not even in Europe.

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Further Information: www.bio-m.de/