Regional Advantages
Community of Talent
Bavaria’s deep pool of leading scientists, managers, and technical assistants can readily support the needs of newly established and expanding companies with its talented workforce. The state is pro-active in promoting young scientific talent at its renowned universities, as well as offering state supported training programs for technical assistants. We invite you to view www.ta-na-klar.de for details.
Technology Transfer
Many start-up consulting and technology transfer organizations help scientists commercialize their ideas and also accompany them in the first steps of the business development by providing know-how and connections to networks. The successful BusinessPlan Competitions in Northern Bavaria and Munich are examples of these activities as well as the Garching Innovation which is responsible for the technology transfer of the Max-Planck Institutes.
Cooperation between many of the research institutions, life science companies, and service providers from the financial world put Bavaria’s Biotech Cluster research and industry on the fast-track.
The following organizations are headquartered in Bavaria capital, Munich:
Max-Planck
Fraunhofer Societies
German Patent Office
European Patent Office
Hub for the Biotech Universe
Bavaria offers easy access within Europe and the entire world with direct links to over 200 destinations in over 61 countries, including leading life-science clusters such as London-Cambridge, Boston, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Montreal, TelAviv, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Munich Airport
Nuremberg Airport
All European business centers are accessible from Munich or Nuremberg within less than four hours with Bavaria’s excellent flight, rail and road connections. Northern Bavaria is also within a couple of hours from Frankfurt Airport.
Capitalizing on Biotechnology
Munich is one of Europe’s Financial Center and Germany’s capital for national and international VC and Private Equity Funds. With roughly 40 venture capital companies, Bavaria is the hub of Germany’s venture capital scene.
Bayern Kapital GmbH in cooperation with professional lead investors give added impetus to providing venture capital in the seed and start-up sector.
Initiatives and Support Programs
Bavaria awards substantial support to R&D projects through the Bavarian Research Foundation bayerische Forschungsstiftung) and technology support programs. Production and investment projects in certain areas of Bavaria are also eligible for grants or low-interest loans.
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