Jo Bury - Biotech in Flanders: A Stunning Story

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Taal: Engels

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The Flemish biotech sector is world-renowned. Flanders is a world player in ‘life sciences’, the study of all life forms, and in particular in biotechnology, the practical application of that knowledge through technology. Thanks to a fruitful cross-fertilization between high quality healthcare, excellent scientific research, daring entrepreneurship, risky financing and a supportive government, an academic and industrial network has emerged in Flanders over the past forty years that is considered unique in Europe. ‘Flanders Biotech Valley’, between Meuse and North Sea, has become synonymous with quality.In those 40 years, Flemish researchers and pioneers have made discoveries that affect more than two million patients a year and are used daily in agriculture, labs and medical cabinets. Entrepreneurs and their teams have had hundreds of meetings to convince investors to back these Flemish innovations and their story over all those other investment proposals that landed on their desks...