Welcome to Bavaria.
Europe’s Innovation Hubfor Digital Health.
Highly qualified specialists meet industry partners.
Bavaria is a leading center for Digital Health in Europe, providing young companies and establishedcorporations with opportunities for growth. Various factors play together to create an ecosystem thatis geared to help businesses grow on a global level:

Diverse Business Opportunities

Effective Networks

Business opportunities abound, notably due to highly dynamic
R&D environment, presence of major corporations and availability of both public and private funding.

777 K jobs

4 Reasons
why the BavarianDigital HealthEcosystem isworld-class•is spent on health care in Germany –highest expenditure in Europe

in life sciences in Bavaria, around84.300 working in R&D (2019)

Access to Talent
Bavaria hosts a highly diverse workforce in thesector and provides an ideal breeding groundfor young talent thanks to its world renowned
universities: LMU, TUM & FAU.
Ranking competitively worldwide in Life Sciences (CHE Ranking;
QS World University Ranking).

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13 % of GDP

Bavaria provides a varied number of networking
platforms that drive cross-industry innovation.
Examples: Medical Valley e.V., BioM,
Bayern Innovativ/MedTech Pharma e.V.

8.7 Mio €Germany is a Life Sciences Innovation
Hub with the highest share of R&D
expenditure in the EU(2021)

Glocal Perspective
Both global multinationals and local
champions use Bavaria as a springboard toconquer international markets. Example:
Siemens Healthineers, the #4
MedTech/HealthTech company basedon revenue worldwide.

589 trials

clinical trials (2021) in Germany
making it #2 in Europe / #6 globally /Munich #2 in Germany

7.8 beds 99.9 % 30%

Germany has the highest hospital beddensity in the OECD/EU with 7.8 beds
(per 1.000 population).

of people in Germany have
health insurance.

Bavaria’s share of German
patent applications (2020).

Most patents in Bavaria are registered in Life Sciences,with the majority in MedTech 14.295 patents (2020).

We help you to benefit from the strong bavarian ecosystem.

17A selection of companies

Clusters form the “Bavarian Cluster
Initiative” which promote cooperation
between companies, research &development partners and organizes
special events for leading high techindustries.

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4Cluster

531NUE627370+

MUC

Science, research andinnovation institutes.

2 4 56 736 Fraunhofer Institutes
and Project & Research Groups
16 Max-Planck-Institutes
6 Helmholtz Institutes
8 Leibnitz Institutes
12 Regional Institutes
3 Associations of Industrial Research

1 319Universities and Universities
of Applied Sciences.

5 Universities
14 Universities
of Applied Sciences

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As the business promotion agency of
the State of Bavaria we assist you insetting up a new business or expandingin Bavaria with the following services:

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Talent Acquisition•Tap into the newest business opportunities.
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