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Regional Advantages
Workforce
A large portion of the workforce operating in the Bavarian mechatronics industry work at the largest production locations of Munich, with 150,000 persons employed, and Nuremberg, where 100,000 persons are employed. Bavaria takes up a frontline position in education and training. An excellent training is the basis for the top qualification of Bavarian skilled workers renowned worldwide. This applies especially to mechatronics and the associated user industries:
- In the academic sector, universities and universities of applied sciences turn out expert engineers and scientists.
- The vocational training system, based on the dual system with its close-knit combination of theory and practice, ensures excellent workforce competence.
Optimum environment
Bavaria is home to the headquarters of the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, the Fraunhofer Patent Center for German Research, the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent Rights, Copyrights and Competition as well as the central administration of the Fraunhofer and Max-Planck Society.
Bavaria provides competence centers as well as innovation and start-up incubators ready to help start-ups and new business investments off the ground:
Access to funding
Bavaria is the venture capital center of Germany and is home to a host of VC companies. The company Bayern Kapital GmbH is a key driver for providing venture capital. The investment of private investors can be tripled by Bayern Kapital and the KfW Mittelstandsbank investing the same amount.
Bavarian initiatives and programs in the field of mechatronics
With its High-Tech Offensive the Bavarian State Government made mechatronics one of the key political topics and 50 million euros of funds were provided for this sector during the period from 2000 to 2005.
Bavaria also grants extensive support to research and development projects for mechatronic applications through the
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