Biocat, la Fundació BioRegió de Catalunya

Biocat, la Fundació BioRegió de Catalunya

Activities

  • Innovation support bioecosystems

Description

Biocat was established in 2006 as a public-private foundation at the behest of the Government of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Council to identify the needs of the BioRegion and implement a strategy and action plan to maximize the economic and social impact of the life sciences and healthcare innovation ecosystem in Catalonia.

The main focal points of Biocat’s strategy are:
- Accelerating technology transfer and business growth by promoting activities to boost the sector’s capacities, with special emphasis on the value added of research, knowledge transfer, internationalization, access to capital and investment attraction.
- Projecting the ecosystem, establishing strategies and actions to improve the knowledge of its assets and the sector’s potential, and improving its reputation and visibility in Spain and the world in order to position the BioRegion as one of the main healthcare innovation hubs in Europe.
- Fostering entrepreneurs and researchers’ innovative capacities and talent development, launching programs to drive the emergence of innovative projects in healthcare, training and improving professionals’ skills and preparing the sector’s future leaders and business managers. - Bringing together the ecosystem’s stakeholders with international players to generate synergies and opportunities for growth and scaling up, based on the deep knowledge of the ecosystem’s assets and challenges and the sector-wide trends and strategies on a local and global level.

Referent Contact

Alba Jiménez Rueda

European project manager
ajimenez@biocat.cat

Biocat, la Fundació BioRegió de Catalunya

Address

Baldiri Reixac, 4-8, Torre I (PCB)
08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Contact

info@biocat.cat

Description

Biocat was established in 2006 as a public-private foundation at the behest of the Government of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Council to identify the needs of the BioRegion and implement a strategy and action plan to maximize the economic and social impact of the life sciences and healthcare innovation ecosystem in Catalonia.

The main focal points of Biocat’s strategy are:
- Accelerating technology transfer and business growth by promoting activities to boost the sector’s capacities, with special emphasis on the value added of research, knowledge transfer, internationalization, access to capital and investment attraction.
- Projecting the ecosystem, establishing strategies and actions to improve the knowledge of its assets and the sector’s potential, and improving its reputation and visibility in Spain and the world in order to position the BioRegion as one of the main healthcare innovation hubs in Europe.
- Fostering entrepreneurs and researchers’ innovative capacities and talent development, launching programs to drive the emergence of innovative projects in healthcare, training and improving professionals’ skills and preparing the sector’s future leaders and business managers. - Bringing together the ecosystem’s stakeholders with international players to generate synergies and opportunities for growth and scaling up, based on the deep knowledge of the ecosystem’s assets and challenges and the sector-wide trends and strategies on a local and global level.

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Bio-resources and biobanking
  • Cells, tissues and humanized xeno-organs
  • Biosamples
  • Viral, phage or bacterial specimen
Identification of biotherapies
  • Target identification
  • Target validation
  • Screening
Drug design
  • Drug assessment
  • Drug engineering
  • In vitro preclinical studies
Clinical validation
  • Clinical trials
  • In vivo preclinical validation
  • Pre-industrial scale production
Production
  • Upstream processes
  • Downstream processes
  • Quality control
Market access
  • CE mark / market authorisation
  • Payment / Reimbursement
  • Care pathways

Partnership needs

  • Regulatory aspects
  • Business Development
  • Clinical expertise, clinical trials
  • Research & Development
  • Education & Training

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Type of technology (OECD Definition)

  • Process biotechnology techniques
  • Cell and tissue culture and engineering