{{Short description|Biotechnology business incubator}} {{Infobox company | name = Bio City Leipzig | logo = Bio City Leipzig logo.svg | logo_upright = 0.5 | logo_caption = Logo | type = | foundation = {{start date and age|2003}} | key_people = | location_city = Leipzig | location_country = Germany | locations = | industry = Startup accelerator, biotechnology, life sciences | products = | assets = | homepage = {{URL|https://www.biocity-campus.com/en/bio-city-leipzig/}} | num_employees = | founder = }} '''Bio City Leipzig''' in Leipzig is a business incubator in the field of biotechnology. With the start of the "Biotechnology Offensive Saxony" in 2000 and with the concept of uniting business and science under one roof, the foundation stone was laid on 8 February 2002. The opening of the centre took place on 23 May 2003. The total investment volume was €50 million, including €12.9 million from the City of Leipzig. The landlord is ''LGH - Leipziger Gewerbehof GmbH & Co. KG''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Business and science united |url=https://www.alte-messe-leipzig.de/download/bio_city_leipzig.pdf |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=alte-messe-leipzig.de |pages=4 |language=en |format=PDF}}</ref> and tenant management is operated by ''leap:up GmbH''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bio City Leipzig |url=https://www.biocity-campus.com/en/bio-city-leipzig/ |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=biocity-campus.com |language=en}}</ref> Until February 2025, leap:up was named ''biosaxony Management GmbH''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Von der ‚biosaxony Management GmbH‘ zur ‚leap:up GmbH‘ |url=https://www.biocity-campus.com/von-der-biosaxony-management-gmbh-zur-leapup-gmbh/ |date=2025-02-18 |access-date=2025-12-09 |website=biocity-campus.com |language=de}}</ref>
== Science and Economics == thumb|left|The Bio City Building (2006) thumb|The BioCube Building (2014) The total area of Bio City Leipzig is {{convert|20,000|m2|sqft|abbr=on}}. Three quarters of the area is used by biotechnology companies and founders, the other quarter is available to the Centre for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BBZ)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome to the Centre for Biotechnology and Biomedicine |url=https://www.bbz.uni-leipzig.de/en |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=bbz.uni-leipzig.de |publisher=Leipzig University |language=en}}</ref> of the Leipzig University.
The economic and scientific focus of the local companies and the BBZ is particularly in the field of industrial, medical and green biotechnology. Bio City Leipzig, for example, was home to the headquarters of the ''Vita 34 International'' and ''Haema'' companies, the first one a cord blood bank,<ref>{{Cite web |title=FamiCord AG, Leipzig, Germany |url=https://www.northdata.com/FamiCord%20AG,%20Leipzig/HRB%2020339 |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=northdata.com}}</ref> the second one a blood donation service.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Haema GmbH, Leipzig, Germany |url=https://www.northdata.com/HAEMA%20GmbH,%20Leipzig/HRB%2043605 |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=northdata.com |language=en}}</ref>
== Infrastructure == Bio City Leipzig is located on Deutscher Platz and is the nucleus of a BioCity Campus with the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, the Translational Center for Regenerative Medicine Leipzig, Haema, the faculties of natural sciences and the University of Leipzig Medical Center in the immediate vicinity.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BioCity Campus Leipzig |url=http://www.urbanplan.de/bcc/BCC_Expose_100426_english_web.pdf |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=urbanplan.de |language=en |format=PDF}}</ref> The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Leipzig University and the German National Library are also located here.
In 2013, an extension building, called "BioCube", was opened with {{convert|6,400|m2|sqft|abbr=on}} of space at a cost of €12.3 million<ref name="tcsag">{{Cite web |title=BioCube in BioCity Leipzig |url=https://www.tcsag.de/referenzen/biocube-leipzig |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=tcsag.de |language=de}}</ref>, Vita 34 (new name since February 2025: FamiCord AG)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vita 34 AG wird zur FamiCord AG |url=https://www.biocity-campus.com/vita-34-ag-wird-zur-famicord-ag/ |date=2025-02-19 |access-date=2025-12-09 |website=biocity-campus.com |language=de}}</ref> is one of the tenants.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BIO CITY LEIPZIG – Biotechnologisch-Biomedizinisches Zentrum |url=https://www.lgh-leipzig.de/objekte/bio-city-leipzig/ |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=lgh-leipzig.de |publisher=LGH |language=de}}</ref>
== Architecture == The building of the Bio City Leipzig (Architects: Spengler / Wiescholek from Hamburg)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Architekturführer Leipzig. Transformation seit der Wiedervereinigung |last=Fenzlein |first=Henry |language=de |isbn=978-3-86922-442-8 |last2=Hartleb |first2=Janine |last3=Parniske |first3=André |last4=Purps |first4=Caroline |publisher=DOM-Publishers |year=2016 |location=Berlin |page=169ff.}}</ref> was in 2003 awarded the ''Architekturpreis der Stadt Leipzig'' (Architecture Award of the City of Leipzig).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.leipzig.de/rathaus/auszeichnungen-und-ehrungen/staedtebauliche-wettbewerbe-und-preise/architekturpreis/architekturpreis-preistraeger#c2868 |title=Übersicht zu den Architekturpreisen seit 1999 |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=leipzig.de |language=de}}</ref> Spengler / Wiescholek designed also the extension building BioCube.<ref name="tcsag"/> The four-storey building is clad on the outside with a multifaceted metal façade in different shades of red.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Architekturführer leipzig. Von der Romanik bis zur Gegenwart |last=Hocquél |first=Wolfgang |publisher=Passage-Verlag |year=2023 |isbn=978-3-95415-128-8 |location=Leipzig |pages=308 |language=de}}</ref>
<gallery mode="packed" caption="Architecture (2025)"> Bio_City_Atrium_2.jpg|Inside the Bio City Building, view towards the main entrance Bio_City_Atrium_1.jpg|Atrium inside the Bio City Building Verbindungsbr%C3%BCcke.jpg|Skyway between the Bio City Building and the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology Fassadendetail_BioCube.jpg|BioCube Building: Façade in different shades of red </gallery>
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== External links == {{Commonscat|Bio City|Bio City Leipzig}} * {{Cite web |title=How Leipzig became Europe’s hidden biotech gem: The rise of Germany’s unlikely innovation hub |url=https://www.leap-up.com/read-news/how-leipzig-became-europes-hidden-biotech-gem-the-rise-of-germanys-unlikely-innovation-hub-3708 |date=2025-09-04 |access-date=2025-12-08 |website=leap-up.com |language=en}} * {{Cite web |url=https://spengler-wiescholek.de/portfolio/biotechnologiezentrum |title=Biotechnologiezentrum der Universität Leipzig |access-date=2025-12-09 |website=spengler-wieschleck.de |publisher=Spengler Wiescholeck architects |language=de}} * {{Cite web |url=https://spengler-wiescholek.de/portfolio/biocube-leipzig |title=Biocube Leipzig |access-date=2025-12-09 |website=spengler-wiescholeck.de |publisher=Spengler Wiescholeck architects |language=de}}
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