ScanBalt BioRegion
On Top of Europe
The Baltic Sea or Nordic-Baltic region comprises Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, northern part of Germany and north-western part of Russia. Health and Life sciences in the region works within the umbrella of ScanBalt BioRegion.
In addition ScanBalt BioRegion closely collaborates and interacts with neighbouring regions of particular interest for example the Region of Northern Netherlands.
History
The countries of the region share a history of economic and political cooperation, illustrated by the Hanseatic League of the middle ages and renaissance, and by its present day equivalent, the Hanse Parliament. The Baltic Sea has facilitated social, cultural, and economic integration for more than 1000 years, interrupted only infrequently by political strife. With the recent fall of the Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall in 1989, the strong old ties have merged with eager new ones.
Potential
All the necessary conditions for strong economic growth exist in the region: stable democracies, institutional structures advantageous to business, large wealthy markets close at hand, world class infrastructure, excellent educational opportunities, strong industrial traditions, good positive work ethic, and a common history of trade and cooperation. With eight of the eleven countries in the region now members of the European Union, the scope for cooperation has also been greatly extended. The region has a unique opportunity to establish itself as one of the leading growth and trading centre of the world.
ScanBalt BioRegion
ScanBalt BioRegion is composed of the Health and Life science community. There are more than 60 universities and over 2100 life science/biotech companies including ~700 research based biotech SME´s active in ScanBalt BioRegion.
ScanBalt fmba
The not for profit association ScanBalt fmba acts as a service provider for the ScanBalt BioRegion community and is a registered trademark ScanBalt™. Members are regional networks and clusters, universities, companies, hospitals, national innovation agencies, regional and national authorities.
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