Heidelberg the BiotechnologyCluster

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• Heidelberg - the BiotechnologyCluster
• Dr. Klaus Plate
• Heidelberg Technology Park
• Seminar at the Jagiellonian University
• October 29, 2003
• Krakow, Poland

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German BioClusters
Bioinitiative Nord (Hamburg- Kiel-Lübeck)
BioRegio Greifswald-Rostock
Region Nordwestl. Nieder- sachsen
Region Bremen
BioTOP Berlin-Brandenburg
BioRegio N (Braunschweig- Hannover- Göttingen)
BioRegio Rheinland (Köln-Bonn- Aachen)
BioRegion Halle-Leipzig
BioMIT Mittelhessen (Marburg- Giessen)
BioRegio Jena
BioRegion Rhein-Main (Frankfurt-Mainz)
BioRegio Regensburg
BioRegion Rhein-Neckar- Dreieck
BioRegio Stuttgart/ Neckar-Alb (Tübingen)
Biotech- nologie Ulm
Biotechnologie München
BioRegio Freiburg
Source Bioregion Rhine-Neckar-Triangle
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Biotech Companies in the Rhine-Neckar-Triangle
Number of small and medium-sized biotech
companies
Jobs created by small and medium-sized biotech
companies
Source Bioregion Rhine-Neckar-Triangle
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Since the launch of the BioRegio Contest in 1997

• 55 new biotech companies in the
  Rhine-Neckar-Triangle
• 45 research-driven companies in molecular
  biotechnology
• 1.800 jobs created directly in biotech companies
• 1.500 jobs in research-driven biotech companies
• 8.000 jobs in the industry and 6.000 jobs in
  research institutions are dependent on
  biotechnology

Source Bioregion Rhine-Neckar-Triangle
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• BioClusters
• Keys for Success

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BioClusters

• Science Base
• - Universities
• - Research Institutes

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BioClusters

• Company Base
• - Big Companies
• - Medium sized companies
• - start ups

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BioClusters

• Financial Base
• Availability of "smart" equity-
• and debt-finance
• - Seed money
• - Venture money

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BioClusters

• Human Resources
• Availability of skilled workforce
• - scientists
• - business professionals
• - technicians
• - Post-docs

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BioClusters

• Additional critical factors for success
• Easy to reach by air, car, railway
• Quality of life

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BioClusters

• Biotech Parks
• The right environment to start
• and grow Biotech companies

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Biotech Parks
Heidelberg Technology Park

• 500.000 sqft laboratory and office space
• 45 Tenant Companies
• 850 Employees, 1.500 expected

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Biotech ParksHeidelberg Technology Park

• Services
• Helping with
• renting office and lab space
• financing
• management
• marketing
• legal affairs

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Biotech ParksHeidelberg Technology Park

• Park Services (examples)
• conference service
• seminars
• marketplace for machines, lab material, services,
  jobs
• online and print platforms to communicate
• organizing meetings
• restaurants
• parking

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Biotech ParksHeidelberg Technology Park

• Local, national and international networking
• Combining Science, Business and Government to
  develop a BioTech Community
• Working with BioTech Associations
• Creating international recognition
• joining the International Association of Science
  and Technology Parks (IASP)
• developing a Sisterpark Network

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Technologiepark Heidelberg Sisterpark Network