Tagged with Cluster

Portugal Joana Branco of Biocant Park, Portugal’s pioneering biotech hub, delves into its strategic development and international impact since 2005. Branco highlights Biocant’s role in advancing the Portuguese life sciences sector, attracting around 43 companies with its state-of-the-art infrastructure and a collaborative ecosystem. Despite challenges such as Portugal’s size and the…

Portugal Health Cluster Portugal is currently spearheading a EUR 90 million EU post-COVID Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) project in Portugal focused on smart health, secondary use of data, and clinical trials. Executive Director Joaquim Cunha highlights the ways in which COVID acted as a catalyst for healthcare transformation more broadly,…

USA Biotech and life sciences companies have a habit of clustering together, creating shared ecosystems to drive innovation. For going on 12 years Johnson & Johnson Innovation (JLABS), has been supporting this strength in numbers philosophy, finding, funding and incubating promising startups under a scheme of open innovation in its shared…

UAE Marwan Abdulaziz Janahi, Senior Vice President of Dubai Science Park, discusses the park’s key milestones and plans for the future, the positive changes in the UAE’s regulatory landscape since COVID, and his excitement about digital health trends and technologies.   At Dubai Science Park, we are proud to play a…

UAE The Managing Director of Dubai Science Park (DSP), Marwan Abdulaziz Janahi, comments on Dubai’s success in becoming a regional hub for life sciences companies, the challenging reality of localizing high-tech manufacturing, and the move towards specialized centers of excellence within Dubai’s hospital infrastructure.   The community DSP is building comprises…

Spain Robert Fabregat, CEO of Biocat, explains how health start-ups in the BioRegion of Catalonia managed to raise a record EUR 238 million in 2021 and why the Spanish region is set to become a hub for advanced therapies and personalized medicine. In addition, the CEO boasts about Cataolina being at…

Denmark The BioInnovation Institute (BII) is an initiative from the Novo Nordisk Foundation which aims to support entrepreneurial researchers and early-stage life science start-ups with up to DKK 18 million in founder-friendly funding. CEO Jens Nielsen highlights some of the BII’s milestones and success stories since its formation and Denmark’s progress…

Denmark Petter Hartman of the Medicon Valley Alliance, a non-profit membership organisation spanning the Danish-Swedish life science cluster Medicon Valley, introduces the progress of the Alliance from a networking body to today facilitating concrete collaborations between its 300+ members. Hartmann also touches on the MVA’s key focus areas, talent hiring and…

Denmark The Danish Life Science Cluster is Denmark’s new national business cluster for life science technology, established in December 2020 with the goal of strengthening collaboration between the country’s public and private sectors and commercialising more of the discoveries being made in its world-class research universities. The Cluster’s director, Diana Arsovic…

Switzerland Giorgio Calderari, the chairman of Farma Industria Ticino, the association of chemical and pharmaceutical industries in the Swiss canton of Ticino, explains how a region with a population of 350,000 has managed to create a turnover of over two billion dollars, excelling as an innovative hub. Furthermore, he analyzes the…

Global Toshio Fujimoto, MBA, MD of Japan’s Shonan Health Innovation Park highlights key takeaways from the BIOJapan 2020 conference on why San Diego offers a good example of what it takes to be a leader in the innovative life science sector.   Over the past two decades, drug discovery has undergone…

Norway Norway, more well-known internationally as an innovation hub for oil & gas and marine biology, is attempting to reverse the trend of reducing numbers of clinical trials and cultivate a domestic healthcare research industry. Drawing on the country’s comprehensive health registries, universal healthcare system, links with its Nordic neighbours, and…