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BioBusiness Event 2008

The Amsterdam BioMed Cluster gave Cluster partners the opportunity to present themselves and “do business” during the BioBusiness Event 2008 held May 21 in the RAI, Amsterdam. Cluster partners “on display” were research institutes AMC, Sanquin, VU/VUmc, NKI-AvL and UvA and university spin offs A-Skin, Arthrogen and DCPrime.

Over 200 employers and 2600 career seekers got together at this year’s BCF BioCareer Event/BioBusiness Event.
AT5-AmsterdamINC made a video report.

It’s business stupid

What is it with the Dutch that they have such difficulty grabbing business opportunities in a changing world? We have the brains, we have the money and the opportunities are plenty. Still, during the last 40 years hardly any company of substantial size has emerged next to the old industry in the AEX. Oil, food, materials and financial services dominate the landscape.

We have left the environmental challenges to environmentalists, rather then building innovative businesses in solar or wind energy to help face them. We have exported our knowledge on agriculture around the world, and now that we can more intelligently engineer crops we let the opportunity pass due to invalid arguments around GMOs. Now that “kweekersrecht” is being substituted by patent law we complain instead of adapt.

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BioBusiness Event 2008

It’s business stupid