The Industrial Biotechnology Cluster lays the foundations and supplies ideas for trendsetting developments in many different industries. Aside from biotechnology companies and research institutions, this also includes firms in the engineering sciences, the automobile, aviation, chemicals, and lubricant industries, paper, adhesive, and environmen­tal technologies, nanobiotechnology, and bioinformatics.

Mission and objective

Industrial biotechnology offers numerous approaches that harbor the potential to produce a wide variety of products using environmentally friendly, resource-conserving bio­catalytic methods. Using renewable raw materials or also CO2 makes industrial production ecological and can simul­taneously maintain or boost the competitiveness of a site.

In order to promote this approach, the cluster assists its members with research and development projects, or­ganizes events for the public and industry audiences, sup­ports start-ups, engages in site marketing, provides infor­mation about relevant activities, and creates opportunities for dialog between politics, industry, and science.

The cluster office is operated by Industrielle Biotechnolo­gie Bayern Netzwerk GmbH (IBB Netzwerk GmbH) based in Munich.