Germany Sharpens Biotech Focus

Is Germany a factor in biotech? You bet it is.

The leading German federal states are Bavaria (85 firms), Baden-Württemberg (67 firms), North Rhine-Westphalia (42 firms), and Berlin (26). A three-year analysis shows that “among the five strongest states Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony had an increase in the number of enterprises despite the current situation.” The key business areas of the study’s sample companies were, in order of prominence, therapeutics, molecular diagnostics, drug delivery, food (including diagnostics), tissue engineering, bioinformatics, transgenic plants, and fine chemicals.

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