Opportunities in India for Dutch LS&H SME
Agentschap NL provides assistance to Life Sciences companies in finding suitable supporting options for national and international activities. They can see numerous expansion possibilities for this target group through working together with Indian companies and knowledge institutes and involved InnoTact Consulting.
More information?
Do you want to know more about our experience with the Indian Life Sciences market? Then please contact Maarten van Dongen, tel. +31 33 434 0404 or by e-mail.
The question
Agentschap NL has the Innovation programme Life Sciences & Health offer, on behalf of the government, to support small to medium sized enterprises by studying the innovation and partnership opportunities outside the Netherlands among others. Agentschap NL asked InnoTact Consulting to execute a balanced study into the prospects in India for the Dutch Life Sciences SME. The agency of EZ requested that InnoTact indicate where, how and which tools small to medium sized enterprises should use to respond to the Indian Life Sciences sector.
What InnoTact did
The Indian Life Sciences sector is growing strongly. InnoTact has been actively studying the unknown opportunities and supporting Indian Life Sciences companies in India since 2006. They do this under the name BioPortEurope. InnoTact has also accumulated experience in the Indian Life Sciences sector in addition to the substantial experience with the Dutch sector. This enabled them to approach the matter from both perspectives.
The Indian economy was outlined using a broad perspective initially, whereby the Indian Life Sciences sector was subsequently magnified: key companies, knowledge institutes, bio-clusters, science parks and the turbulent growth of this sector.
As a follow up to this, InnoTact drew up a general inventory of the Dutch Life Sciences SME.
Based on these two approach routes, we were then in a position to describe the match between Indian demand and Dutch supply. We recorded our findings in a concise report for Agentschap NL and held a presentation during a workshop organised by Agentschap NL.
The result
The presentation (in Dutch) by InnoTact Consulting during the workshop on 27 March 2009 organised by Agentschap NL showed evidence of the practical experience in working with Life Sciences companies and bodies in India. The presentation inspired various people in attendance to convert their intention to expand their market to India into initial concrete actions.
Based on the findings and in close cooperation with the Indian Technical Scientific Attaché in New Delhi, Agentschap NL developed a follow-up strategy for cooperation between the Netherlands and India in the field of Life Sciences and innovation. A Programme of Cooperation between the Netherlands and India has been signed in the meantime. This programme makes financial support possible for bilateral partnerships in the field of Life Sciences.
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Cases
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- Midterm Review "Parelsnoer Initiatief"
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- Outlines LS Amsterdam Metropolitan Area
- International benchmark of bio-clusters
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- Expertise centre Environmental Toxicology
- Interim evaluation IOP Genomics
- Carbohydrate Competence Center
- Industrial bio-processing in the north of the Netherlands
- Business case TI Pharma Mondriaan project
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- Evaluation BioPartner programme
- National technology platform drug discovery
- Strategy Cilian, German LS company
- Business plan spin off Unilever
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