The Facts & Trends Analysis of the Italian Biotechnology Directory is the leading publication of the Italian biotech industry.

The Report is written for a global audience, targeting international business readers as well as policy makers interested in understanding the Italian biotech context with accurate analysis and interviews to key actors in this industry.

To discover the 2008 issue of the Report, click here.

The Facts & Trends Analysis is published by Biopolo SCRL with the support of the Province of Milan, the City of Milan and the Province of Turin in collaboration with Assobiotec and IFOM.

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What are the strengths and challenges within the Italian biotech industry?

To answer this question, the Report examines the trends within the global biotech industry, highlighting the trend for pharmaceutical and biotech companies to search for new products and projects through strategic collaboration agreements with small biotech companies.
The report also underscores the Italian biotech scenario, making revenues of 4 billion Euro for 222 companies that employ some 14,000 researchers. The Report further underlines the quality of Italian science compared to the rest of the world and the the importance of bioclusters.

The Report is completed by 60 interviews to business managers, public officials and scientists.

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Discover the Italian biotech industry, the key players and the business opportunities.

The 2006 Report offers a unique opportunity to understand the Italian scenario through a systematic analysis of the critical factors of success of the majors Italian bioclusters (Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany and Friuli Venezia-Giulia).

The Report collects interviews to major Italian scientists in key fields such as cancer, neurosciences, plant sciences, cardiovascular diseases and stem cells who tell us what are the major trends and what opportunities will be available in the future.

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NetBioCluE, the Europe INNOVA biotech cluster network, has provided a ready set of policy recommendations to be integrated in policies fostering clusters' cooperation and focusing on key aspects for clusters' growth: people, flexible boundaries, convergence and rapid response.

The policy recommendations' messages have been developed in a bottom-up and hands on approach.

Everything is presented in the "Do's and dont's for biotech cluster development: the results of NetBioCluE", here attached and available for download.

Imprese Innovazione Tecnologica
Il progetto IMPRINT � dedicato alle aziende localizzate in Lombardia che intendono adottare tecnologie innovative legate alle biotecnologie e ai nuovi materiali nel proprio business.

Technological Innovation for business
The IMPRINT project is dedicated to companies established in Lombardy (Italy) that wishes to take advantage of cutting edge technologies in the field of biotechnology and innovative materials into their business.

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The BioMilano Network, a network of biotech players in the Milan area promoted by the Province of Milan, aims to enhance the sector developing synergies, encouraging partnerships, sharing technological platforms, favouring business of new companies, spotting potential funding, promoting marketing communication.

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There is growing evidence that bioactives in the diet play an important role in promoting health. Flavonoids and related phenolics are examples of bioactives from plants that have beneficial influences on a number of important risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease (the leading cause of death in Europe), cancer and age-related degenerative diseases.

The FLORA project sponsored by the European Commission puts together a network of interdisciplinary scientists in order to understand the link between diet and health, particularly the benefical effects of flavonoids and related phenolics on cardiovascular disease, stroke and cancer.

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