Advanced Biotech Cluster platforms for Europe
ABCEurope aims to reinforce active and structured partnerships between EU bio clusters and their companies. By providing better quality and more efficient services to biotech companies and by reinforcing international cluster activities, the vision is to contribute to creating a European biotech world-class cluster. The overall goal of the project is to foster transnational cooperation between Bio cluster initiatives, helping cluster support organisations to develop and test improved cluster support services and to integrate innovative SMEs into clusters. The project will help to design service packages for innovative SMEs in order to create better conditions for growth, a favourable environment for cross border cooperation, transnational innovation and entrepreneurship.
The key driver behind this project is the development and delivery of services in a fully integrated mechanism – bringing significant added value of cross-cluster cooperation to the development and delivery of services. The aim of the consortium is that no service is delivered in isolation in a local cluster – biotech SMEs and their cluster support actors are fully integrated into a community of clusters and SMEs across Europe.
The project brings together the primary cluster support actors in Europe, the majority of whom have offered, for many years, the main support services that have contributed to the successful growth of their clusters.
Specific objectives:
- strengthen the partnerships between EU bio-communities and the support for “result-oriented transnational cooperation”;
- create more efficient innovation support services for biotech companies to link research, entrepreneurship and finance;
- reinforce the international dimensions of EU Bio Cluster cooperation, in- and outside the EU.
