Today's Portrait Highlights

BioCon Valley®- Health and Innovation in Germany’s North-East

BioCon Valley® is the initiative for life sciences and health economy of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The region with two strong centres around the university cities of Greifswald and Rostock offers distinct research and development facilities and a lively economic community of sme´s and large businesses, outstanding in industrial and marine biotechnology, personalised and regenerative medicine, animal health and plant breeding. As a German BioRegion BioCon Valley® catalyses the commercialization of modern life sciences in the region by networking science, industry and government.

Laurea Living Lab Network

Laurea's strategic choice is to integrate its three tasks: education, R&D and regional development. Laurea LLs Network serves the integration of the three tasks in the optimal way. LLs are user-centred open innovation ecosystems integrating research and innovation research in real life communities and settings. Laurea LLs Network collaborate with research institutions, companies, public agencies, citizens, and users for investigating and creating new products and services. Living labs enable facing economic and social challenges with novel technological opportunities and professional practices and speed up competitive business and value creation models for the national and global markets. Keywords:

Lublin Medicine Cluster

Lublin Medicine Cluster has 119 members: universities, public and private hospitals, medical centres and enterprises from health and medicine. Fields of specialization: functional food and dietary supplements, diagnostics, telemedicine and robotics, oncology, cardiology, rehabilitation, health tourism, primary care, social and organizational innovations. Specialisation in ProVaHealth project: functional food. We involve users through public and private hospitals, medical centres, physicians, nursery homes, Third Age Universities, patient organisations. Keywords: preclinical and clinical trials, product/ service evaluation, services of laboratories, prototyping, short series production, business models.