Some features of global significance

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www.scanbalt.org
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ScanBalt BioRegion- Europes first Metaregion
Reykjavik
11 countriesDenmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland,
Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, North
Germany, Northwestern Russia. 85 million
people 67 universities gt 800 biotech companies
Helsinki
St. Peters-burg
Oslo
Stockholm
Tallinn
Copenhagen
Riga
Vilnius
Warsaw
Berlin
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ScanBalt a Network of Networks

• PLUS
• Universities
• Hospitals
• Companies
• Science and Business parks
• Tech transfer organisations
• Other institutions

Sunrise Valley
ScanBalt was initiated 2002 with funds from
Nordic Innovation Centre Today a not for profit
member association
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About..

• ScanBalt is a not for profit triple helix
  association
• ScanBalt focus on Life Sciences and biotech
• ScanBalt is based on a bottom up approach
• ScanBalt BioRegion is the name of the meta-region

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Vision

• ScanBalt promotes knowledge formation, education
  and research, and knowledge transfer to shape a
  world class, competitive meta-bioregion, ScanBalt
  BioRegion, for the benefit of the inhabitants.
• ScanBalt reinforces both goals related to
  economical development and goals related to human
  resources and environment.
• ScanBalt is a forum for discussion of the impact
  of biotechnology on Society

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ScanBalt Values

• Sustainability
• Equality
• Ethics
• Respect
• Trust

Brain drain Brain circulation
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Objectives

• ScanBalt is a tool for the members to
•  Create visibility for ScanBalt BioRegion and
  members 
• Attract human resources and capital 
• Initiate and facilitate the creation of critical
  mass 
• Coordinate joint efforts in research, education
  and technology transfer 
• Create a platform for collaboration between
  academia, hospitals, public authorities, private
  companies and individuals  
• Create a platform for dialog and collaboration
  between networks 
• Create a platform for dialog with supra-national
  institutions

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The ScanBalt organization
General Assembly
Projects
Councils
Executive Committee
Chairmanship
Secretariat
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In the future - Focus on Strategic collaborations
e.g.

• Baltic Development Forum
• Memorandum of understanding Uffe
  Elleman-Jensen
• Black Sea BioRegion
• Memorandum of understanding
• Nordic Council (Per Unckel)
• Nordic Innovation Center Kjetil Storvik,
  co-opted ExCo-member
• NordForsk

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Looking back The Hanseatic League
In the late Middle Age, commerce on the Baltic
was dominated by the Hanseatic League, which
started around 1160. The 30- Years war
accelerated the decay of the Hansa
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A Europe of regions

• Europe consists of over 200 microregions
• To obtain critical mass some 5-10 microregions
  are considered optimal
• Life sciences/biotech are in a most dynamic phase
  and need clustering of resources and competencies
  for global competition
• Life sciences/biotech may be used as a heaver for
  a regional restructuring

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ScanBalt History

• 1st Baltic Biotech Forum in Teterow, Germany in
  2001
• The network ScanBalt formed January 2002 at a
  meeting in Copenhagen
• The independent not for profit association
  ScanBalt established August 1 2004 in Turku

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Founding members

• Networks
• BioCon Valley
• Bioforum Oulu/Technopolis
• BioMedico Forum
• BioTeam South
• Biotop Berlin
• BioTurku
• Estonian Biotechn.Ass.
• Norgenta/Bay to Bio
• MedCoast Scandinavia
• Medicon Valley Academy

• Universities and Res.Inst.
• Biomed. Res. Univ. Of Latvia
• Center for Intell.Prop.Studies
• Helsinki Business and Science park
• Inst. of Biotechnology, Vilnius
• Inst. of Exp. Med. St.Petersburg
• Sahlgrenska Univ. Hospital
• University of Gdansk
• Medical Univ. Of Gdansk
• University of Göteborg
• University of Helsinki
• University of Kalmar
• Linköping University
• Lund University

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Founding Members and Institutional members

• Industry/Tech Transfer
• Centre of Tech.Transfer, Gdansk
• Hedmark Innovation Center/BioInn
• Innovation Norway
• Novo Nordisk
• Steinbeis Foundation

• Institutional Members
• Activision Life SA
• Adam Mickiewicz Univ.
• Chalmers University of Technology
• Kaliningrad Regional Economic Development Agency
• Nordic Inst. Of Dental Materials
• Oy Aboa Tech AB
• University of Bremen, Centre of Applied
  Gensensorik

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Funded projects
MetaregionaI identity and infrastructure
Thematic projects networks of competence

• ScanBalt IP-Knowledge Center (EU FP6)
• ScanBalt Marine Biotech (NorFA)
• ScanBalt Clinical Research Network (NIC)
• ScanBalt AgroBiotech (NorFA)
• ScanBalt Stem Cell Network (NorFA)
• ScanBalt Biofuel Network (NIC)

• ScanBalt Campus (Interreg 111B)
• 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)

In total, til 1/1 2005 almost 3 M EURO
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ScanBalt Campus A model for transnational and
transsectoral institution building in education,
research and development
Interreg IIIB co-funded, total budget 817.350
EURO
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ScanBalt Academy

• Kaare Norum, chair/vicechair, Oslo
• Leena Peltonen, chair/vicechair, Helsinki

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ScanBalt Competence Region

• Knowledge and competence mapping
• Create identity we know who we are
• Formulate strategies for ScanBalt BioRegion
• Develop a model that can be applied to others in
  the EU
• Identify and motivate potential collaboration
  partners
• Speed up the coupling to and integration with the
  new member states in EU

Co-financed by the EU, total budget 618 800 Euro
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Building an Intellectual Property Infrastructure

• Development of property
• concepts and IP strategies
• Development of right concepts
• Development of contractual
• business relations

FP6 LifeSciHealth co-financed, total budget 600
000 euro
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Marine biotech
Norges Fiskeri Høgskole
Marine research Institute, Iceland
St Petersburg Zool. Inst.
Norwegian veterinaryry School of Science
Russian Academy of Science
Meterological and Hydro Institute of Sweden
National Institute of Chemical physics and
BioPhysics, Estonia
Copenhagen University
Danish Institute for Fisheries research
University of Latvia
Greifswald university
Peter Aleström Norwegian veterinaryry School of
Science Chairman
Ministry of Environmet Lithuania
Silesian Medical university
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What ScanBalt is not!

• Isolationistic
• Limiting collaborations within the BioRegion
• Another network competing with others
• A top down organisation
• Too large
• An organisation with much talk and little action

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What ScanBalt could do, which cannot be done by
individual networks

• As a meta network ScanBalt can act independently
  of national interests
• A meta network could be a portal into the region
  and create visibility
• external
• internal
• A meta network could be a portal into another
  meta network

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Centripetal forces

• Common history, Hanseatic league
• Identity, SB Competence region
• Transport
• Eastern countries developing, need for partnering
• Critical mass

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Centrifugal forces

• Lack of trust, values
• Differences in BNP
• Lack of realistic conception of critical mass and
  importance of critical mass
• Cultural differences, history
• National nepotism
• Local nepotism

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From the perspective of ScanBalt

• The Nordic collaboration, (Nordic Council),
  Nordic Innovation Centre, NordForsk (NORFA) have
  been powerful instruments for a position of
  strength and a competitive edge within European
  life sciences/biotechnology.
• ScanBalt is a new and realistic model to create
  collaboration with eastern Europe and to achieve
  additional critical mass.

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