Bio City Leipzig
biotechnology business incubator
Bio City Leipzig in Leipzig is a business incubator in the field of biotechnology. With the start of the "Biotechnology Offensive Saxony" in 2000 and with the concept of uniting business and science under one roof, the foundation stone was laid on 8 February 2002. The opening of the centre took place on 23 May 2003. The total investment volume was €50 million, including €12.9 million from the City of Leipzig. The landlord is LGH - Leipziger Gewerbehof GmbH & Co. KG and tenant management is operated by leap:up GmbH. Until February 2025, leap:up was named biosaxony Management GmbH.
Science and Economics
The total area of Bio City Leipzig is 20,000 m2 (220,000 sq ft). Three quarters of the area is used by biotechnology companies and founders, the other quarter is available to the Centre for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BBZ) of the Leipzig University.
The economic and scientific focus of the local companies and the BBZ is particularly in the field of industrial, medical and green biotechnology. Bio City Leipzig, for example, was home to the headquarters of the Vita 34 International and Haema companies, the first one a cord blood bank, the second one a blood donation service.
Infrastructure
Bio City Leipzig is located on Deutscher Platz and is the nucleus of a BioCity Campus with the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, the Translational Center for Regenerative Medicine Leipzig, Haema, the faculties of natural sciences and the University of Leipzig Medical Center in the immediate vicinity.
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