Our ambition

The Amsterdam BioMed Cluster has the ambition to further strengthen its position by:

• Continuing building a supportive and comprehensive platform of regional commercial, public sector and academic life sciences organisations;
• Mapping the regional knowledge base; identifying and exploiting promising themes for innovation and new business activity;
• Cherishing the pearls in the region;
• Zooming in on common pain points that hold up technology transfer and innovation;
• Actively promoting the Cluster and its strongholds;
• Extending the range of the network, e.g. by furthering the cooperation between the various regional life sciences clusters;
• Organising and participating in (international) life sciences conferences;
• Setting up a Life Sciences Monitor for the Amsterdam region.

The following examples of activities carried over the past period illustrate how the Cluster facilitates and accelerates the life sciences:

• Organisation of Life Sciences Cafés;
• Organisation of knowledge-based meetings at various life sciences companies;
• Launch of the Amsterdam BioMed Cluster website www.amsterdambiomed.nl;
• Publication of the brochure Life Sciences in Business, and the flyer Find your life sciences partner in the Amsterdam BioMed Cluster
• Coordination of the collective attendance at international conferences, such as the Bio International Conventions;
• Assist universities and research institutes with their technology transfer activities (“Subsidie Kennis Exploitatie” arrangement);
• Facilitation in the creation of flexible office/ business accommodation including laboratory space;
• Redirection of foreign technology matchmaking requests and advise in fact finding missions;
• Assisting in establishing the Life Sciences Centre Amsterdam and Life Sciences Fund Amsterdam.