Locational advantages NRW

Innovation location NRW

North Rhine-Westphalia is one of the strongest innovation locations in Europe. This also applies to innovative medicine.

• A large number of university and non-university research institutions are located here,
• numerous university clinics and hospitals as well as
• small, medium-sized and globally active companies.

As the most populous state in Germany, NRW also has both metropolitan regions and strongly rural structures and thus represents a broad spectrum of different population and supply structures.

Strong and diverse medical landscape

Innovative medicine in NRW scores with innovative start-ups and SMEs, internationally active large companies and institutions of top-level research. The diversity of the innovation landscape in NRW ranges from classic business fields such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, medical biotechnology and an enormously strong and diverse supply and research landscape with many innovative approaches to new and emerging business fields such as artificial intelligence, digital health applications, personalized medicine and many other areas from the field of future technologies.

As central points of orientation in innovative medicine in NRW, we have also established lighthouses for networking and organization in selected subject areas. Contact us, to learn more about innovative medicine in NRW.

Strong support structures

In addition to its central location in the heart of Europe, its demographic advantages and its strong economic and scientific landscape, NRW also offers a wide range of consulting and support services for actors from science and industry.

Cluster Medizin.NRW

As Cluster Medizin.NRW, we are the central competence platform for innovative medicine in NRW. Find out more about what we have to offer.

NRW. Global Business

NRW.Global Business, the foreign trade promotion agency of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, offers you tailor-made services for your business – in North Rhine-Westphalia and worldwide.

NRW.BANK

As the development bank for North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW.BANK supports the state in its structural and economic policy tasks.

NRW.BANK is available for start-up projects as well as for established companies with advice, support and funding specifically tailored to your needs.

NRW.Europa in the Enterprise Europe Network

NRW.Europa is part of the Enterprise Europe Network, which supports and connects companies, universities and research institutions in opening up foreign markets, finding business and project partners and participating in European funding programs, especially in the field of research and innovation.

Regional networks of the health industry

NRW is a large federal state with diverse regions. In addition to the supra-regional contact persons, there are also competent contact persons of the health industry in the individual regions, with the regional networks.

Brancheninitiative Südwestfalen e. V.

Establishing connections, using synergy effects and promoting the development of an industry of the future: All members and partners of the industry initiative benefit from this. The association was founded in 2005.

Gesundheitsregion Köln-Bonn e. V.

The association “Gesundheitsregion KölnBonn e.V.” sees itself as an industry-wide comprehensive network of companies, institutions and associations in the healthcare sector in the Cologne-Bonn region.

MedEcon Ruhr e. V.

MedEcon Ruhr is the joint address of the healthcare industry in Germany’s largest conurbation. More than 170 institutions from the hospital industry and health care, life sciences and health care research, municipal institutions and supplying industries are organized through their membership in MedEcon Ruhr e.V..

Medlife e.V.

MedLife e.V. is a competence network of the life sciences, which promotes the exchange between science and economy as well as interdisciplinary networking for innovations and individually supports company founders and start-ups.

Netzwerk Gesundheitswirtschaft Münsterland e.V.

Netzwerk Gesundheitswirtschaft Münsterland e.V. supports the players in the healthcare industry in regional and supra-regional networking between companies, care and research institutions, funding acquisition, project development and management, implementation of innovations as well as public relations and location development.

Zentrum für Innovation in der Gesundheitswirtschaft – ZIG OWL

Shaping the future, promoting innovation, strengthening health – these are the tasks to which ZIG OWL, the Center for Innovation in the Healthcare Industry OWL, is dedicated. As a development agency and network builder, ZIG profiles the image of the healthcare industry in the region of East Westphalia-Lippe together with its members and partners.

The business location NRW

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NRW combines unique location factors that ensure that our business location is in the best possible position compared to other European regions.

Invest in NRW!

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NRW as a location for clinical research

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