GöteborgBIO 2.0

Purpose and goal

The Region should be one of the most innovative and expanding regions in Europe within the defined focus areas and thus attract more research funds and new competence, as well as new companies High quality entrepreneuriel education to ensure new competence A functioning innovation system for new ideas, entrepreneurs, venture capital and industrial partners for ideas to be quickly usable internationally, also resulting in better efficiency and quality in health care through an increased availability of innovative product, processes and services Goals that have been partly achieved

Results and expected effects

The project has contributed to an improved communication, better awareness and a clearer understanding of the cluster environment The entrepreneurial education is established with focus on developing new companies, with an incubator in place to support the verfication process Activities within the defined focus areas (biomaterial/cell tech & CVM) have resulted in new collaborations with international universities and companies. New research projects and clinical developments become collaboration projects and new processes have resulted in business ideas and new companies

Approach and implementation

A board of owners, including the Headmasters at GU and Chalmers, the CEO of BRG and the Director at Regional development, has been established to improve communication related to the activities and processes in the project/life science A shared and common trade mark as well as a web for life science i Western Sweden was established. The cluster intitiative now attracted more companies did also strengthen the collaboration with nthe health care sector A neutral platform, ´Open Arena´, will provide a basis for discussions, meetings, policy decisions and issues related to the cluster

External links

GöteborgBIO´s hemsida, som ligger kvar tills dess att den nya life science plattformen är klar.