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Session VI: Flemish Strategic Research Centers
Session VI: Flemish Strategic Research Centers
Pages 116-124
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And Désiré Collen discovered the gene for tPA, which has now found application, through licensing to Genentech, in dissolving blood clots and restoring circulation to stroke victims. A Determination to Turn Knowledge into Societal Benefits Despite many milestone discoveries, she said, there had been virtually no translation from the university laboratories to the economic growth of Flanders.
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A Mandate "To Be Excellent" Their core facilities serve their scientists and the rest of Flanders: a microarray facility, genetic services facility, protein services facility, nanobody services facility, a bioinformatics training and services facility, and a proteomics core facility. Their mandate from the government was "to be excellent," and Dr.
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VIB has also given rise to a fifth startup called SoluCel, a small company in Finland, and two days before the workshop it formed a sixth company called ActoGeniX, which uses the Lactococcus bacterium that grows in the human intestine as a living drug delivery tool. GMIV, a government investment company, had invested €11.5 million in the company, which was also supported by a cluster of Dutch and German investors, some VCs, and VIB.
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VITO's Activities VITO's activities span some of the most sensitive fields of R&D in a continent closely concerned with every aspect of the environment: • Environment: VITO is one of the top three European centers in in-situ soil analysis and decontamination, he said, and his job is to help companies deal with contamination and compliance issues. The other areas of emphasis 32The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre is located in Mol.
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The IBBT is the youngest of the four strategic research centers, said Mr. de Waele, founded just two-and-a-half years earlier.
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de Waele said, "I found it impossible. All of our work is very user-driven and close to the market and companies." IBBT started out by selecting 13 groups, with their professors and research teams, which had proven track records in both academic and business areas and experience in working with companies.
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"We're basing this on what has been done at universities, and may tweak it as we learn." Adding Value to Companies and the Flemish Economy Mr. de Waele said that the primary objectives of IBBT were to add value to companies and to the Flemish economy.
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de Waele was asked whether there were any supercomputers in Flanders to support fields such as bioinformatics. He said there was a grid computing initiative that was multidisciplinary in nature, facilitating not only biotech but also other disciplines.
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