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ScanBalt BioRegion
- Europe´s first Metaregion
Reykjavik
Helsinki
Oslo
Stockholm
Copenhagen
St. Petersburg
Tallinn
Riga
Vilnius
11 countries
Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania,
Norway, Poland, Sweden,
North Germany,
Northwestern Russia.
85 million people
Warsaw
Berlin
67 universities
> 800 biotech companies
ScanBalt – a Network of Networks
PLUS:
Sunrise Valley
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Universities
Hospitals
Companies
Science and Business
parks
• Tech transfer
organisations
• Other institutions
ScanBalt was initiated
2002 with funds from
Nordic Innovation
Centre
Today a not for profit
member association
About…..
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ScanBalt is a not for profit triple helix
association
 ScanBalt focus on Life Sciences and biotech
 ScanBalt is based on a ”bottom up” approach
 ScanBalt BioRegion is the name of the metaregion
Vision
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ScanBalt promotes knowledge formation,
education and research, and knowledge
transfer to shape a world class, competitive
meta-bioregion, ScanBalt BioRegion, for the
benefit of the inhabitants.
 ScanBalt reinforces both goals related to
economical development and goals related to
human resources and environment.
 ScanBalt is a forum for discussion of the
impact of biotechnology on Society
ScanBalt Values
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Sustainability
Equality
Ethics
Respect
Trust
”Brain drain”
”Brain circulation”
Objectives
ScanBalt is a tool for the members to:
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Create visibility for ScanBalt BioRegion and members
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Attract human resources and capital
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Initiate and facilitate the creation of critical mass
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Coordinate joint efforts in research, education and technology
transfer
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Create a platform for collaboration between academia, hospitals,
public authorities, private companies and individuals
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Create a platform for dialog and collaboration between networks
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Create a platform for dialog with supra-national institutions
The ScanBalt organization
General
Assembly
Projects
Councils
Executive
Committee
Chairmanship
Secretariat
In the future - Focus on
Strategic collaborations e.g.
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Baltic Development Forum
• Memorandum of understanding – Uffe Elleman-Jensen
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Black Sea BioRegion
• Memorandum of understanding
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Nordic Council (Per Unckel)
• Nordic Innovation Center – Kjetil Storvik, co-opted ExComember
• NordForsk
Looking back –
The Hanseatic League
In the late Middle Age, commerce
on the Baltic was dominated by
the Hanseatic League, which started
around 1160.
The 30- Years war accelerated
the decay of the Hansa
A Europe of regions
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Europe consists of over 200 microregions
 To obtain critical mass some 5-10 microregions
are considered optimal
 Life sciences/biotech are in a most dynamic
phase and need clustering of resources and
competencies for global competition
 Life sciences/biotech may be used as a heaver
for a regional restructuring
ScanBalt History
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1st Baltic Biotech Forum in Teterow, Germany
in 2001
 The network ScanBalt formed January 2002 at a
meeting in Copenhagen
 The independent not for profit association
ScanBalt established August 1 2004 in Turku
Founding members
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Networks
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BioCon Valley
Bioforum Oulu/Technopolis
BioMedico Forum
BioTeam South
Biotop Berlin
BioTurku
Estonian Biotechn.Ass.
Norgenta/Bay to Bio
MedCoast Scandinavia
Medicon Valley Academy
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Universities and Res.Inst.
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Biomed. Res. Univ. Of Latvia
Center for Intell.Prop.Studies
Helsinki Business and Science
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Inst. of Biotechnology, Vilnius
Inst. of Exp. Med. St.Petersburg
Sahlgrenska Univ. Hospital
University of Gdansk
Medical Univ. Of Gdansk
University of Göteborg
University of Helsinki
University of Kalmar
Linköping University
Lund University
Founding Members and
Institutional members
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Industry/Tech Transfer
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Centre of Tech.Transfer,
Gdansk
Hedmark Innovation
Center/BioInn
Innovation Norway
Novo Nordisk
Steinbeis Foundation
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Institutional Members
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Activision Life SA
Adam Mickiewicz Univ.
Chalmers University of
Technology
Kaliningrad Regional Economic
Development Agency
Nordic Inst. Of Dental Materials
Oy Aboa Tech AB
University of Bremen, Centre of
Applied Gensensorik
Funded projects
MetaregionaI identity and
infrastructure
Thematic projects–
networks of competence
• ScanBalt Campus (Interreg 111B)  ScanBalt IP-Knowledge Center
(EU FP6)
• ScanBalt Network of Networks
 ScanBalt Marine Biotech (NorFA)
(NIC)
• ScanBalt Clinical Research
• ScanBalt Competence Region
(EU FP6)
Network (NIC)
• Boosting Baltic FP6 (EU FP6)
 ScanBalt AgroBiotech (NorFA)
 Educational mobility (NIC)
 ScanBalt Stem Cell Network
 Economic Barriers for borderless
(NorFA)
Cooperation (NIC)
• ScanBalt Biofuel Network (NIC)
 Biotech, one click away (NIC)
In total, til 1/1 2005: almost 3 M EURO
ScanBalt Campus
A model for transnational and
transsectoral institution
building in education,
research and development
Interreg IIIB co-funded, total budget: 817.350 EURO
ScanBalt Academy
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Kaare Norum, chair/vicechair, Oslo
 Leena Peltonen, chair/vicechair, Helsinki
ScanBalt Competence Region
Knowledge and competence mapping
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Create identity “we know who we are”
Formulate strategies for ScanBalt BioRegion
Develop a model that can be applied to others in
the EU
Identify and motivate potential collaboration
partners
Speed up the coupling to and integration with the
new member states in EU
Co-financed by the EU, total budget 618 800 Euro
Building an Intellectual Property Infrastructure
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Development of property
concepts and IP strategies
Development of right concepts
Development of contractual
business relations
FP6 – LifeSciHealth co-financed, total budget 600 000 euro
Norges Fiskeri
Høgskole
Marine biotech
Marine
research
Institute,
Iceland
St Petersburg
Zool. Inst.
Norwegian
veterinaryry
School of Science
Meterologica
l and Hydro
Institute of
Sweden
Russian Academy of
Science
National Institute of
Chemical physics
and BioPhysics,
Estonia
Copenhagen
University
Danish Institute
for Fisheries
research
University of Latvia
Greifswald
university
Ministry of
Environme
t Lithuania
Silesian Medical
university
Peter Aleström
Norwegian veterinaryry
School of Science
Chairman
What ScanBalt is not!
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Isolationistic
Limiting collaborations within the BioRegion
Another network competing with others
A top down organisation
Too large
An organisation with much talk and little action
What ScanBalt could do, which
cannot be done by individual networks
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As a meta network ScanBalt can act
independently of national interests
 A meta network could be a portal into the region
and create visibility
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external
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A meta network could be a portal into another
meta network
Centripetal forces
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Common history, Hanseatic league
Identity, SB Competence region
Transport
Eastern countries developing, need for
partnering
Critical mass
Centrifugal forces
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Lack of trust, values
Differences in BNP
Lack of realistic conception of critical mass and
importance of critical mass
Cultural differences, history
National nepotism
Local nepotism
From the perspective of
ScanBalt:
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The Nordic collaboration, (Nordic Council),
Nordic Innovation Centre, NordForsk (NORFA)
have been powerful instruments for a position of
strength and a competitive edge within
European life sciences/biotechnology.
 ScanBalt is a new and realistic model to create
collaboration with eastern Europe and to
achieve additional critical mass.
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We´ll do it together!