MdynamiX founds InnoBaseAllgäu e.V. with eleven partners to build an innovation hub in the Allgäu

Twelve companies and institutions at the Flughafen Süd Business Park are promoting innovation, developing a programme to attract new companies and planning shared infrastructure – including an autonomous shuttle to the airport.

Benningen, Germany, 6 November 2026 – Together with eleven other companies and institutions around the Flughafen Süd Intermunicipal Business Park in Benningen/Hawangen, MdynamiX AG founded InnoBaseAllgäu e. V. (IBA) on 14 September 2026. The goal is an innovative ecosystem: IBA aims to promote innovation, pool shared services, attract new companies to the location and plan infrastructure with foresight – the plans include an autonomous shuttle to the airport as a test track and research laboratory.

Why MdynamiX is involved

MdynamiX, development partner for efficient and measurable driving experience development, is based in Benningen and was involved from the very beginning in the round table of companies around the business park. The company is represented on the IBA board by Prof. Bernhard Schick, CEO of MdynamiX AG, and Tristan Schwandke, Head of Sales & Marketing.

“In the Allgäu, a location is emerging where mobility, information technology, construction and energy work side by side. We have driven this association forward from the very beginning because innovation emerges where companies share their strengths, think about infrastructure together and learn from one another. IBA gives this collaboration a reliable framework – and the autonomous shuttle to the airport shows how tangible that can become and what cross-sector approaches can look like.”

Prof. Bernhard Schick, CEO of MdynamiX AG and Chairman of InnoBaseAllgäu e. V.

From round table to association

It all began in January 2025, when the companies around the business park met for the first time at a round table. The park is being developed on a former military site that the municipalities of Benningen and Hawangen have acquired. The aim of the intermunicipal initiative is the sustainable conversion and development of the area into a future-oriented business and innovation location.

In recent years, numerous companies driving innovation in mobility and research, information and communications technology, construction technology and energy management have settled on the business park site – in close proximity and right next door to one another. Today, more than 15 companies and the Memmingen Unterallgäu campus of Kempten University of Applied Sciences, with around 1,000 employees in total, are based at the location, twelve of them IBA founding members. Regular exchange is now intended to make synergies visible and enable collaboration on site.

What IBA has planned

IBA aims to create a strong ecosystem for companies, research and people. Shared structures, pooled operational tasks and forward-looking infrastructure planning are intended to create optimal conditions for the innovations of the future to emerge here. With the GreenTech Hub, an innovation campus for start-ups, the entrepreneurial spirit is already present at the location – with e-con and Reisacher as shareholders and Allgäu Airport as a cooperation partner, all three of them IBA founding members.

The association works in four fields: its members pool recurring operational tasks among themselves. A concept for attracting businesses is intended to win new companies, guide them through the entire relocation process and enable them to integrate directly into an existing ecosystem in order to advance inventiveness and innovation together. Joint marketing, from logo and website to events and trade fairs, makes the location visible. And infrastructure planning includes, among other things, an autonomous shuttle to the airport as a test track and research laboratory, improved public transport connections and an energy park with an internal energy grid.

“A location becomes attractive when you can see and experience it. With IBA, we are making the business park visible together – for companies, research partners and people who want to make a difference here. Anyone interested in relocating will in future have a point of contact that guides them through the entire process. With IBA, we want to create the location in southern Germany where the innovations of the future emerge and which strengthens Germany as a business location overall. To that end, we want to foster the spirit of invention and entrepreneurship here.”

Tristan Schwandke, Head of Sales & Marketing at MdynamiX AG and Secretary of InnoBaseAllgäu e. V.

Get involved

Other companies and institutions at the location and in the region are invited to join IBA. Information and contacts can be found at www.innobaseallgaeu.de

Founding members

• Allgäu Airport GmbH & Co. KG
• AUMOVIO SE
• e-con TGA-Ingenieure GmbH
• EDV-COMPAS GmbH & Co. KG
• FABRINO Produktionsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
• FAKT GmbH
• FAKT-motion GmbH
• Josef Hebel GmbH & Co. KG Bauunternehmung
• MdynamiX AG
• Reisacher Beteiligungs GmbH
• Traditionsgemeinschaft JaboG 34 „Allgäu“ mit fliegergeschichtlichem Museum und Fliegerhorst Memmingen e. V.
• Zweckverband Interkommunaler Gewerbepark Flughafen Süd – Benningen/Hawangen

 

Caption: The founding members of InnoBaseAllgäu e. V.

Left to right: Marc Knack, AUMOVIO SE, Dominik Dieing, e-con TGA-Ingenieure GmbH, Ralf Schmid, Allgäu Airport GmbH & Co. KG, Moritz Hess, FAKT-motion GmbH, Prof. Bernhard Schick, MdynamiX AG, Heinrich Schneider, Wilhelm Auchtor, Traditionsgemeinschaft JaboG 34 „Allgäu“ mit fliegergeschichtlichem Museum und Fliegerhorst Memmingen e. V., Xaver Fackler, FAKT GmbH, Martin Osterrieder, Mayor of Benningen im Allgäu, Peter Geiger EDV-COMPAS GmbH & Co. KG, Tristan Schwandke, MdynamiX AG, Paul Daniel Graf, Josef Hebel GmbH & Co. KG Bauunternehmung, Dr. Klaus Hörmann, FABRINO Produktionsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG., Adrian Günther, MdynamiX AG, Gunar Michael, Josef Hebel GmbH & Co. KG Bauunternehmung, Timm Hoffmann, EDV-COMPAS GmbH & Co. KG

Photo: MdynamiX AG