Gate to Success

Within only one year, at the site of the Technical University Munich (TU Munich) in Garching, the high-tech center gate came into existence. It was erected within the framework of the High-Tech-Offensive, which the Free State of Bavaria originated in 1999. With a technology and entrepreneur center such as gate, today the strengths of science and industry in Bavaria are expanded and oriented internationally. Regional technology expertise and infrastructure are fostered as well.

• 10 January 2002: Received the construction permit
• 28 January 2002: Construction began 
• 8 February 2002: Cornerstone was laid
• 1 June 2002: Started leasing
• 13 June 2002: Topping-out ceremony to celebrate finishing the skeleton construction work 
• 31 October 2002: Completed construction
• 1 January 2003: Software Campus moved in
• 1 October 2004: 50th tenant moved in
• 8 October 2004: 1st inoventec
• 27 April 2005: 2nd inoventec
• 27 April 2006: 3rd inoventec

The closeness to the TU Munich as well as the cooperation agreements between gate and the TU today support successful entrepreneurs in the high-technology disciplines mechatronics, software, and information and communications technology. These conditions have contributed toward successfully generating, implementing, and marketing innovations in a scientific environment.