Infrastructure
Iconic breakthroughs deserve iconic spaces
Your future-ready, flexible, and affordable office & lab space in Europe’s transformative life sciences supercluster
A space for every stage of your life sciences journey
Expand with ease in the Basel Area Life Sciences Supercluster. While Europe faces a lab space shortage, the Basel Area offers available, move-in-ready lab space for rent or sale, including biotech labs and wet lab space designed for growth. From shared desks to private labs and entire buildings, our sustainable spaces are designed by world-renowned architects to support innovation and are available when you need them.
Basel Area labs and facilities
14+ first class laboratory buildings
17+ business centers with private and coworking space
Lab space density on par with Boston
With 0.93 million m² of lab space per million people, the Basel Area matches Boston’s 0.91, placing it among the most concentrated lab space cities in the world.
The region also hosts one of the densest clusters of life sciences companies, talent, and research institutions in Europe. This rich ecosystem fuels collaboration and innovation, creating the ideal environment to accelerate your R&D efforts.
Location in Focus
Discover Switzerland’s next life sciences landmark
The Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area Main Campus is rapidly expanding to become the largest life sciences innovation campus in Switzerland. Discover a purpose-built architecture where startups, scaleups, academia and global industry come together to accelerate innovation—from breakthrough research to commercial success.
Flexible spaces for life sciences business
The Basel Area offers modern co-working and shared business spaces tailored for life sciences teams. These flexible setups support scaling teams, commercialization, collaboration and cost efficiency, making it easier to grow your presence in Europe.
Specialized life sciences spaces include:
- Wet lab space for R&D and early-stage development
- Commercial lab space for growing teams and operations
- Biotech labs designed for flexible, scalable use
- Integrated office and lab environments for cross-functional teams
Benefits for your R&D & commercial teams
- Premium lab and office space in a single integrated ecosystem
- Flexible setup that evolves with your business needs
- Cost-effective expansion compared with US and EU metros
- Immediate availability: no construction delays
- Access to Europe’s strongest life sciences workforce
- Architectural quality that boosts efficiency, culture, and retention
Environments built to fuel your growth
From a smooth start to long-term growth, the Basel Area offers the right space at every stage.
- Tech Park Basel provides fully equipped laboratories and offices for early-stage companies within a strong startup community.
- At the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area, companies gain access to advanced biotech and research facilities alongside a built-in network of industry and academic partners.
- Campus Klybeck completes the journey with a vibrant mixed-use district featuring new homes, flexible lab space and modern environments for work, research and collaboration.
A reputation for R&D
Join your peers
The Basel Area is more than pharma: investments from Roche, Novartis and others power a world-class mix of institutes and infrastructure, helping you reach patients faster and with less risk.
What companies are saying
"We chose Basel after surveying biotech hubs worldwide. The talent, ecosystem and government officials made it an excellent choice, while its central, beautiful setting easily attracts global recruits."
CEO of the Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering (BIIE)
"The Basel Area supported us greatly with bigger lab space and more office capacity to facilitate our growth. The location is attractive for working and living, and the appeal of the region for employees showed during the recruitment process – it was relatively easy for us to hire very good associates."
Team Leader Application Biological Qualification
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FAQs
Yes. The supercluster concentrates CROs, CDMOs and regulatory/consulting partners, alongside 800+ life sciences companies and 1,000 research groups—so you can co-locate with suppliers and peers from lab to launch.
Yes. The Basel Area has Europe’s largest available lab space per capita, surpassing even Boston. Commercial and R&D facilities are future-ready, sustainably designed, and affordably priced, with iconic spaces like the Switzerland Innovation Park and Novartis Campus.
Roche and Novartis maintain their global headquarters in Basel; Lonza’s global headquarters is also here. Additional anchors include Idorsia and Basilea Pharmaceutica in Allschwil (BL), plus major Basel sites for Bayer Consumer Care and Boehringer Ingelheim (Schweiz).
