FIRST LABS - Laboratory start-up support for start-ups
The Rock Capital Group is expanding its concept of ready-to-use laboratories in the life science hub at SKYGATE in Hallbergmoos, especially for start-ups and smaller companies
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With its concept of ready-to-use laboratories, the Rock Capital Group has recently made a decisive impact on the SKYGATE biotech and life science hub in the Munich Airport Business Park (MABP) in Hallbergmoos near Munich. In the past 12 months alone, the company has leased around 6,000 square meters of lab offices. Now the Rock Capital Group is going one step further. The new FIRST LABS approach creates laboratory space that is specially tailored to the needs of young or smaller biotech and life science companies and is ready for immediate occupancy and operation. These are smaller, flexibly expandable and fully equipped.
"The demand from start-ups for professionally equipped and immediately usable laboratory space has literally overwhelmed us," says Andreas Wißmeier, Managing Director of the Rock Capital Group. "With FIRST LABS, we enable small teams to get off to a quick start - without investing in expansion or furnishings, but with the option to grow flexibly into additional space."
New work for office workers who have to go to the lab
FIRST LABS are aimed at market players who need smaller, self-contained laboratory and office units but do not want to forego the standards of a professional research environment. "A central idea behind our ready-to-use spaces, alongside the technical standard, is the New Work approach. While modern working environments with areas for communication and meeting are common in many industries, many laboratory technicians in Germany work under much poorer conditions. The topic of New Work has hardly taken place in the laboratory sector to date. This is particularly problematic because laboratory staff cannot work from home and are on site every day," says Wißmeier, referring to SKYGATE, which combines the sterile laboratory world and agile New Work.
Technical equipment at S1 and S2 level
Whether technical gases, deionized water, compressed air or high-performance ventilation and cooling systems: According to Wißmeier, the S1- and S2-approved FIRST LABS meet all the technical requirements for an immediate start to research. In addition, tenants will find reinforced floors for heavy equipment such as freezers or autoclaves as well as sufficient power and emergency systems. "With FIRST LABS, we are significantly lowering the barriers to entry for start-ups," Wißmeier continues. "Young companies in particular usually find it difficult to find suitable laboratory space, as high conversion costs and long rental contracts are often insurmountable hurdles."
Bavaria's biotech hotspot in the north of Munich
SKYGATE in the Munich Airport Business Park (MABP) in Hallbergmoos near Munich has developed into one of the most up-and-coming biotech and life science hotspots in Bavaria and Germany in just a few years. "Thanks to the good infrastructure in the surrounding area and the direct proximity to the unique o2 Surftown Munich, the largest surf park in Europe, employees also find a liveable, exciting environment here," adds Andreas Wißmeier. The terminals of Munich Airport can be reached in less than ten minutes and the integrated Radisson Hotel with 212 rooms turns every stopover into a mini vacation.
The mix attracts leading international companies. In recent months, the Rock Capital Group has let lab offices and space to companies such as Samsung SDI Europe GmbH (1,500 sqm), Tageos (700 sqm), Praimera Biotech AG (600 sqm), Sungrow (600 sqm), Büroidee (200 sqm), AMLaS (500 sqm) and Plectonic Biotech (2,000 sqm).
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