Hanna Halme, Turku Bio Valley Ltd

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Experiences from ScanBalt a Network of
Networks
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ScanBalt BioRegion
11 countriesDenmark Estonia Finland Iceland L
atvia Lithuania Norway Poland Sweden North
Germany NW Russia. 85 million people
Reykjavik
Helsinki
St. Peters-burg
Stockholm
Oslo
Tallinn
Riga
Copenhagen
Vilnius
Warsaw
Berlin
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• 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

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ScanBalt Network of Networks
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ScanBalt BioRegion major actors
(absolute numbers)
Source ScanBalt Yellow Pages, Oct. 2006
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ScanBalt BioRegion - Companies
(absolute numbers)
Source ScanBalt Yellow Pages, Oct. 2006
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• Vision
• ScanBalt 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.
• Mission
• In respect for our vision and values, ScanBalt
  promotes the development of ScanBalt BioRegion as
  a globally competitive meta-region.

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Objectives

• ? Create corporate identity for ScanBalt
  BioRegion
• ? Develop visibility for ScanBalt BioRegion and
  the members of ScanBalt
• ? Attract financial, human and industrial
  resources
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• ? 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

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• Opportunities
• Well educated populations
• Collaborative culture
• Complementary competencies
• Pool of intellectual capital abroad

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The FutureChallenges Heavy investments
in education, research and innovation in for
example Asia, the USand othersBaltic Sea
Region still Europes most competitive - but
others are catching up! Brain drainShrinking
percentage of World population
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Co-funded ScanBalt Projects
Identity and infrastructure
Specific thematic projects

• 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)

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ScanBalt CampusThe 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

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ScanBalt
Executive committee
Secretariat
ScanBalt projects
Infrastructural
Competence Region
Boost. Baltic
Campus
ScanBalt Academy
Thematic
Marine Netw.
Lund Universtity
Strandins University Hospital
Clinical Research Netw.
Tallinn University of Technology
IP Knowledge Center
Agrobiotech
Stem Cells
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Strategy 2006-2008

• Priorities
• 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

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The web 50.000 hits per month
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The ScanBalt Newsletter - 6000 Subscribers, 6
times a year
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Silicon Valley

• ScanBalt
• The Big Fish
• Small Fish Model

US
ScanBalt
Asia