Campus Vienna Biocenter, u bečkoj četvrti St. Marx, već godinama izrasta u jedan od najvećih centara za biotehnologiju u Europi. U predjelu oko bivše klaonice, koji je predviđen kao prostor ekspandiranja, uzmicao je niz napuštenih kuća stare izgradnje pred ambicioznom idejom internacionalno značajnog istraživačkog clustera. Danas je osnovni preduvjet u biološkoj struci, da putovi između obrazovanja, istraživanja i ostvarivanja dobiti budu kratki, kako bi se moglo sudjelovati na tržištima na kojima vlada žestoka konkurencija. Prostornom blizinom predavača i studenata, znanstvenika te napokon i priključene odgovarajuće industrije, bečka gradska općina očekuje postizanje uvjerljive prednosti ove gospodarske lokacije, u odnosu na europske takmace München i Cambridge.
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Campus Vienna Biocenter, which has been growing for years in Vienna’s St. Mark suburb, represents one of the largest bio-technology centres in Europe. In the area surrounding a former slaughterhouse, intended as an expanding space, a series of abandoned houses were retreating before the ambitious idea of an internationally significant research cluster. In the profession of biology the basic precondition today is that the paths between education, research and profit-making are short, to enable participation in markets characterized by fierce competition. On account of the spatial closeness of lecturers and students, scientists and finally of the related industry that has moved in, Vienna City Council expects this corporate location to gain a convincing advantage in respect to Munich and Cambridge, its European competitors.
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