Value proposition

Hotspot for Life Sciences - Where the future becomes reality

The IZB, founded in 1995, is the operating company for the Innovation- and Start-up Centers for Biotechnology located in Planegg-Martinsried and Freising-Weihenstephan, and has developed into one of the top ten biotechnology centers in the world. Currently, in an area totaling 26,000 m2, about 50 biotech companies with nearly 600 employees are located. An essential criterion for the success of the IZB is its close proximity to outstanding research at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU) and renowned biotechnology research establishments on the Campus Martinsried, such as the Max-Planck-Institutes fur Biochemistry and Neurobiology and the 10 faculties of the Ludwig Maximilian Univerity, the Clinic Großhadern and the Helmholtz Zentrum.

Magnet for biotech start-ups
Since 1995, the Planegg-Martinsried location, now covering 23,000 m2, has accommodated Start-ups focusing on medical biotechnology. Since 2002, the IZB in Freising-Weihenstephan with 3,000 m2 of space offers optimal conditions for establishing companies in the sector of life sciences. Here, young entrepreneurs and company founders come upon an optimal infrastructure for transforming their products or services into business propositions, within a competence cluster for life sciences that is one of the best property management, close contact to the venture capital scene, as well as joint location marketing are also factors for our success, as is the flexibility to adapt space requirements to the development of our startups.

The Biotech Press Lounge, the IZBrunch and the Munich Life Science Pitch Day are regulary networking events at the IZB.