15 Years of BioPark Regensburg – first positive results

For years Regensburg, with a population of 150,000, is according to prognostic studies one of the most quickly growing and dynamic communities in Germany. Innovative industrial enterprises have settled here and 31,000 young people study at the University – the East Bavarian Technical College (OTH), which is combined on a college campus with the university clinic and the district clinic. A significant driver of this development was and is the active community promotion of the economy, which including the field of the life sciences is massively supported with municipal measures. BioPark Regensburg GmbH was founded in 1999 as an enterprise of the City of Regensburg with the goal of establishing biotechnology as a new  economic sector in this location and in the region and to offer commercial laboratories. Furthermore the Cluster BioRegio Regensburg is coordinated from here.

The 48 companies in the region with 3,369 employees generated most recently 337 million €. All companies of the BioRegion Regensburg together have acquired in the last 15 years 496 million € in capital, of this 116 million € in venture capital and 245 million € in equity capital and 135 million € in subsidies. The BioPark managing directors Dr. Thomas Diefenthal (active full-time CEO) and Dieter Daminger (active part-time CFO) invested in particular with the acquisition of the subsidies from the government, the State of Bavaria and the EU a large proportion of this. 42 million € alone was invested in the three BioPark buildings BioPark I (2001) BioPark II (2006) und BioPark III (2011). On an area of 18,000 m2, there are 35 companies and institutes here with 600 employees and an in-house childcare facility.

The BioPark has in the 15 years significantly contibuted to the promotion of start-up companies in the field of the life sciences (biotech, medtech, pharma, analytics) in the region. As an active member and juror of the Businessplan  Competition North Bavaria, in the last 15 years 374 teams in this field have been guided, of which currently 116 companies  are active in the market. On 11 July an anniversary celebratory event is to take place with the Bavarian State Minister Emilia Müller and the new Lord Mayor of the City of Regensburg Joachim Wolbergs at the BioPark. On Saturday 12 July the BioPark and its companies and institutes are holding an open day for the general public.