The Biotechpark Gatersleben[1], developed at the initiative of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, provides space for growing biotech companies.

Today, SunGene is a part of the BASF Plant Science organisation and has more than 60 employees and an ideal research environment in a modern laboratory building.

Three other biotech firms, hived off from the IPK, work in a business centre completed in autumn 2000: TraitGenetics, Novoplant, and ArrayOn.

Due to major structural problems in Saxony-Anhalt, such as a high rate of unemployment, Gatersleben, with its biotech-park, is of great importance to developing that area.

Gatersleben combines rural village life in the plains of the Harz with an international community, creating a culture known as G-Life.