Hanna Halme, Turku Bio Valley Ltd Tampere 22.3.2007 Experiences from ScanBalt – a Network of Networks

Hanna Halme, Turku Bio Valley Ltd Tampere 22.3.2007

Experiences from ScanBalt – a Network of Networks

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ScanBalt BioRegion 11 countries

DenmarkEstoniaFinlandIcelandLatviaLithuaniaNorwayPolandSwedenNorth GermanyNW Russia.

85 million people

Reykjavik

Oslo

Stockholm

Helsinki

Copenhagen

Warsaw

Vilnius

Riga

Tallinn

St. Peters-burg

Berlin


• ScanBalt BioRegion is the meta-region

• ScanBalt™ is a neural member association founded in 2004

• ScanBalt™ focus on Life Sciences and Biotech

• ScanBalt™ is a bottom up organisation

• The project ScanBalt initiated in 2002


ScanBalt™ – Network of Networks

http://www.bioinn.no/hovedside/nyheter/velykket_bioinn-konferanse/


ScanBalt BioRegion – major actors

Source: ScanBalt Yellow Pages, Oct. 2006

Company2126

University / Research institute1002

Hospital / Clinic235

Investor112

Networks53

Science Parks13

Company

University / Research institute

Hospital / Clinic

Investor

Networks

Science Parks

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ScanBalt BioRegion - Companies

Biotech671

Pharma323Device

370

BioIT 163

Clinical Research116

Diagnostics148

Service providers358

Biotech

Pharma

Device

BioIT

Clinical Research

Diagnostics

Service providers

Source: ScanBalt Yellow Pages, Oct. 2006

(absolute numbers)



VisionScanBalt will promote knowledge formation, education, research, technology transfer, innovation and economic development within life sciences in order to meet meta-regional needs and increase competitiveness in accordance with ScanBalt values.

ScanBalt will be a forum for discussions of the impact of life sciences on society.

ScanBalt will act as a platform and an umbrella for activities within life sciences.

MissionIn respect for our vision and values, ScanBalt promotes the development of ScanBalt BioRegion as a globally competitive meta-region.


Objectives ► Create corporate identity for ScanBalt BioRegion

► Develop visibility for ScanBalt BioRegion and the members of ScanBalt

► Attract financial, human and industrial resources

► Coordinate joint efforts in research, education, technology transfer, innovation and economic development

► Provide a platform to facilitate dialogue and collaboration between networks, academia, hospitals, public authorities, private companies and individuals

► Create a platform to facilitate dialogue with supra-national institutions


Opportunities:

Well educated populations

Collaborative culture

Complementary competencies

Pool of intellectual capital abroad


The Future:

Challenges:

Heavy investments in education, research and innovation in for example Asia, the USand others

Baltic Sea Region still Europe´s most competitive - but others are catching up!

Brain drain

Shrinking percentage of World population


•ScanBalt Campus (Interreg111B)

•ScanBalt Network of Networks (NIC)

•ScanBalt Competence Region (EU FP6)

•Boosting Baltic FP6 (EU FP6)•Educational mobility (NIC)•Economic Barriers for

Borderless Cooperation (NIC)•Biotech, One Click Away

(NIC)•Communication in ScanBalt

BioRegion (NIC)

ScanBalt IP Knowledge Network (EU FP6)

ScanBalt Marine Biotech (NorFA)

• ScanBalt Clinical Research Network (NIC)

ScanBalt AgroBiotech (NorFA) ScanBalt Stem Cell Network

(NorFA) Boost BioSystems (EU FP 6) Trayss (FP 6)

Identity and infrastructure Specific thematic projects

Co-funded ScanBalt Projects


ScanBalt Campus:The Strategic Challenges

• Pioneering in putting the Bologna process into practise• Cluster for excellence• Improve collaboration with industry and hospitals• Attract resources for research and education• No university alone hosts leading expertise in all

disciplines in the biotech and life science area• Improve flexibility in a rapidly changing scientific area• Improve balance between demand and supply of

education



Summer schools

Individual coarses

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Baltic Entrepreneurship Training

Informational Biology

Education and training of leaders for the life science industry of the future

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Strategy 2006-2008Priorities

From 2006 and 3 years ahead ScanBalt will focus on three interrelated priorities in order to support the formation and development of new ideas, networks and projects and ensure output in terms of concrete results.

The three priorities are:

► Identity and Infrastructures

► Communication and Transparency

► Coordination and Consolidation


The web: 50.000 hits per month


The ScanBalt Newsletter -

6000 Subscribers, 6 times a year


ScanBalt™ : The Big FishSmall Fish Model

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ScanBalt

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Hanna Halme, Turku Bio Valley Ltd Tampere 22.3.2007 Experiences from ScanBalt – a Network of Networks