Biofit positioned to become a leading event focused on biotechnology innovation
IDIS, the Paris-based provider of consulting, marketing, and sales services to the life science sector; Eurasanté, the life science economic development agency of the Lille Nord-Pas de Calais Region and Innoget, provider of on-line Open Innovation tools to the life science sector through its Marketplace , today announced its agreement for supporting of “Biofit”. Innoget’s members will benefit from very special rates to attend this unique event.
Biofit is a new, international event aimed at stimulating and facilitating technology transfer and collaborative projects in the life sciences between universities, research institutes and biotech and pharma companies.
The first edition of this event will be held in Lille, October 26-27 2010 at the Lille Grand Palais convention centre. It will provide a forum for the effective transfer of ideas, technologies and innovation into the business.
Dedicated to tech-transfer by bringing together over 600 key players of innovation in the life science sector from academics, industry stakeholders, CEO entrepreneurs to practitioners in technology transfer, intellectual property and licensing.
Biofit is a unique opportunity for emerging companies, Universities and research institutes to promote their technologies and establish business agreements with new partners in the industry. ‘We are very excited to collaborate with IDIS and Eurasante to support Biofit. With Pharmaceutical industry moving to Open Innovation models to actively search for external early stage innovative technologies, Biofit is a unique event for Innoget’s life science sector member (companies, universities and research institutions) to start collaborations with new research and commercial partners’ said Jordi Ràfols, Commercial Director of Innoget.
“Biofit will be a tremendous and unique tech transfer partnering event, that brings together research teams, companies and investors to foster collaborative R&D projects” said Alex Leroy, CEO of Eurasanté. “We are excited to collaborate with Innoget. Well known as a Marketplace dedicated to Open Innovation, it will, for sure, enhance Biofit’s visibility and facilitate partnering on a large scale".
Moreover, Biofit will refresh definitely the innovation landscape through panels and workshops on the world of Open Innovation in biotechnology and healthcare sectors. Prestigious speakers in the industry like Robert Kirschbaum (VP Open Innovation at DSM), Garold Breit, Executive Director TTO of the University of Manitoba (Canada) and Em. Prof. Marc Baron Van Montagu (President of the European Federation of Biotechnology -EFB-) to mention a few will talk and debate about Open Innovation best practices, opportunities and pitfalls, the new configurations of academic technology transfer practices in an Open Innovation world and much more.
About Innoget
www.innoget.com is an Open Innovation Marketplace, an innovative interface where innovative companies meet, communicate and interact. The aim of Innoget is to assist Managers to transgress the boundaries from Closed to Open Innovation. Through Innoget Organizations (Companies, Research Centres, Scientists...) from around the world interact to develop and share R+D projects and innovations.
Innoget introduces new tools to assist managers implementing Open Innovation, that is the Innovation Boxes (Ibox-in and Ibox-out) through which a company is either able to set up a technology scouting system in order to directly capture innovation (ideas, concepts, patents, technologies & products) from externals, and promote internally developed innovation to outsiders
Contact Innoget: Jordi Ràfols
Phone: +34 93 755 6253/ jrafols@innoget.com
About IDIS
IDIS consulting and marketing services group, is specialized in supporting economic development corporations in their innovative strategies. IDIS offers a global solution, from economic development to event organization, and is divided into 3 departments: consulting and market study, marketing, and events. Over the past 4 years, IDIS has become a leader in business and technology events in France and abroad. The consulting group, thanks to a Joint Venture, IC Strategy, is also present in the US (New York), where it offers its services to innovative companies in the health care sector. IDIS REACH, a subsidiary of IDIS dealing with REACH regulation, has become the leading reference for operational consulting in this area.
Contact:
Aurélie Valentin
IDIS
+33 1 40 09 68 72
valentin@idis.fr
About Eurasanté
Eurasanté is an economic development agency dedicated to health and life sciences sectors in the Lille Nord-Pas de Calais Region. Eurasanté ensures all activities linked to economic development in these sectors by enhancing the know-how of health professionals, by assisting local companies, by promoting internationally the regional bio-health pole and Eurasanté Park and by attracting foreign companies in the Nord-pas de Calais. Since 2002 Eurasanté has shown its involvement in the interfacing of public research with private research by organizing major conferences fostering tech transfer activities such as EuroBiO and Nutrevent.
For more information please visit www.eurasante.com
Contact:
Yassine Chirzad
Eurasanté
+ 33 3 59 39 01 84
ychirzad@eurasante.com
