Baden-Württemberg is one of the most important locations for the pharmaceutical industry in Germany and offers the industry outstanding conditions: With its highly specialized research institutes, such as the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, excellent medical and biotechnological faculties, numerous large hospitals and its important pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

Profiting from these location-specific advantages are the pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical service providers and producers of natural healing means. Baden-Württemberg has taken over a leading position in Germany in the important growth cluster of biotechnology as well.

Almost one-fourth of the workers in the German pharmaceutical industry work in Baden-Württemberg. Leading German companies in the pharmaceutical industry, such as Altana, Ratiopharm and Boehringer Ingelheim have locations here as do foreign industry giants - e.g. the world's two largest pharmaceutical groups Pfizer and GlaxoSmtihKline as well as Roche and Baxter. In addition, with pharmexx, one of the largest German pharmaceutical service-providers and one of the highest-growth companies in Europe is at home in the state.

In the natural medicine sector, you will find companies such as Schwabe, DHU, HEEL and ratiopharm in Baden-Württemberg. In addition, there are many smaller, often highly specialized companies that are located in Baden-Württemberg.