High-tech offensive Bavaria

The High-Tech-Offensive Bayern (HTO) is a project of the Bavarian State Government , with which the economic and technological basis of the Free State of Bavaria is to be renewed against the background of globalization .

The HTO is continuing the “Offensive Future Bavaria (OZB)” started in 1994, in which 2.9 billion euros from privatization proceeds were made available to improve the framework conditions for research and development in Bavaria.

After the OZB expired in 1999, a further 1.35 billion euros from privatizations were made available for the HTO in order to expand the key technologies defined in the project, " Life Sciences , Information and Communication Technology , New Materials, Environmental Technology and Mechatronics ".

The investment volume of 1.35 billion euros is divided between an infrastructure program (175.4 million) and four so-called pillars: the "expansion of high-tech centers of world class" (663.6 million), the development of regional ones Technology concepts for the administrative districts (179.0 million), a nationwide qualification, business start-up and technology infrastructure program (267.4 million) and the internationalization of the HTO (65.5 million).

From the 1990s onwards, Munich developed into an internationally significant high-tech location that is often referred to as the Isar Valley .