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Our ambition
The Amsterdam BioMed Cluster has the ambition to turn the larger Amsterdam Metropolitan Area into an internationally attractive and innovative bioregion.
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 “Amsterdam Capital of Science, Life Sciences Brochure 2009, Life Sciences in Business” and the flyer "Find your 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 match-making requests and advise in fact finding missions;
- Assisting in establishing the Life Sciences Centre Amsterdam and Life Sciences Fund Amsterdam.
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 conference(s);
- Setting up a Life Sciences Monitor for the Amsterdam region.
