Germany

Your success factors - Biotech Business in Germany

• Germany enjoys a leading position in a number of innovative technologies, is first rate in the chemical sector, and leading in the optical technologies, medical technology, nano-technology, and biotechnologies.
• Germany is world export champion in a number of branches. Its pharmaceutical industry is the world's largest exporter of medications and drugs.
• Germany is the most populous country in the EU and offers a high-level health system.
• Germany features a central location for access to a market of 27 EU countries and 490 million people with a share of about 25 % of the income of the world's population.
• Germany is already Europe's "Number One" as biotech production site products.
• Germany features internationally celebrated research institutions such as
• the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft,
• the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, and
• the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, strong magnets for leading figures in international science.

• Germany has excellent universities and a famous vocational training system with top-rate experts in many areas.
• Result: 60 % of all European patent registrations come from Germany.
• Germany is providing some 15 billion Euros for promotion of cutting-edge technologies up to the year 2009. Our target: by 2010 increase to 3% of the share of GDP accounted for by research.

• Germany assists with this High-Tech Strategy above all cutting-edge technologies such as the modern biotechnologies.
• With the targeted promotion of clusters, the German government is specifically supporting the exchange process between science and business and among the various disciplines.
• In Germany, start-ups and the growth of high-tech companies are being successfully assisted through the High-Tech-Start-Up Fund, ERP Start-Up Fund, and the EIF/ERP-Umbrella Fund.
• Knowledge is being converted into marketable products in 30 bio regions.
• BIOTECHNICA, Europe's leading trade fair for the biotechnologies, is held in Germany (Hanover 09-11 October 2007).

Further Information/Contacts:

• Deutsche Industrievereinigung Biotechnologie www.dib.org
• Biotechnologie-Industrie-Organisation www.biodeutschland.org
• Invest in Germany  www.invest-in-germany.de
• Informationsportal Biotechnologie www.biotechnologie.de
• German Ministry of Economics and Technology www.bmwi.de
• German Ministry of Education and Research www.bmbf.de