Healthcare Regensburg Initiative

At the beginning of 2017 the BioPark brought the new brand name “Healthcare Regensburg” to life to be able to do justice to the collective visibility of the health location in keeping with the wishes of all the stakeholders. In doing so the Bioregion Regensburg Cluster has been further developed and the content around the thematic field of healthcare economy is being expanded. At the end of 2018 a masterplan was produced also from which the first recommendations for action and project proposals for the further development of the healthcare economy at the Regensburg location and in the region proceeded. The project was funded for three years by the State of Bavaria.

More than 50 businesses and institutions,
five hospitals and two universities.

The growing significance of this industry for the future of the cathedral city and the region of Upper Palatinate was documented by an assessment of the cluster in 2021. Since the last count in 2011 the number of employees in the healthcare industry has risen by around 34%. In 2020 there were a total of 21,600 employees with social security insurance working in the healthcare field in the Regensburg Region. 80% of these are in the City of Regensburg and 20% in the Regensburg District. With 11,715 employees over half of these work in the 5 hospitals in the city and the district. In the field of local doctors there were 4,087 people employed at last count. Also in inpatient and outpatient care the numbers of employees rose by 34% to 4,123.

There are currently 831 companies in the health sector in the Regensburg area, 60% of them in the city and 40% in the district. These generated sales of € 2.7 billion in 2019, which is almost twice as much as in 2011 with a rate of increase of 92.9% and corresponds to an annual growth rate of 7.6%.

Digital Health Initiative

Several projects have been successfully put into action by Healthcare Regensburg. “Digital Health Initiative” was started this way, which links, supports and further develops activities on digitalization of provision of medical care at the location in an interdisciplinary manner. Thereby the opportunity was also created for the network stakeholders to give presentations at their own shared stands at national and international trade fairs. To promote the startup of innovative companies in the healthcare industry the BioPark brought the “Healthcare Accelerator - BioPark Jump” to life.

Healthcare Management Masterplan

Since the start of 2020 the “Healthcare Regensburg Initiative” is being funded for a total of three years by the Ministry of Economy, Development and Energy. The goal is to establish a regional network in the healthcare industry and thereby together with the network partners develop and put into action concrete measures and projects. These are thereby oriented by the broad thematic fields decided upon in the masterplan.

• network activities and knowledge transfer: exchange of knowledge and know-how, spreading of information, networking and collaboration between companies and other institutions of the Healthcare Regensburg initiative

• digitalization of healthcare
• aging society and demographic chance
• securing specialty staff and training and further education