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The evento receives 2.775 meetings, 29% more than in 2010

BioSpain 2012, fourth world-wide evento of biotechnology

Editorial Interempresas01/10/2012

BioSpain has achieved this year situate like fourth world-wide evento in the field biotecnológico by meetings of development of business or partnering, with a total of 2.775 meetings, what represents a growth of 29% with regard to the previous edition in 2010. With these figures, raisin from the seventh position reached in 2010 to the fourth, and surpasses in growth porcentual this year to Bio International Convention (21.183 meetings, 23% more), to Bio Europe (14.765 meetings, 1% more) and to Bio Europe Spring (11.172 meetings, 24% more).

The sixth edition of BioSpain has characterised by an increase generalised in the number of participants, in total 1.850 professionals, so much national like foreigners, related with the sector, that gave appointment of the 19 to 21 September in the Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) of Barakaldo, 32% more than in the edition of the 2010, celebrated in Pamplona.

For the inauguration, had the presence of the Prince of Asturias, that did a route by the commercial exhibition interesting by the last advances of the sector and later gathered with personalities of the sector of the business field and scientist, meeting in which it showed his total support to the sector of the biotechnology and his intention to assist to this evento in back editions whenever his diary allow it to him.

With regard to other data, the area of commercial exhibition, whose surface increased 50% in this edition, has had 29% more than exposito-animal that in 2010, reaching the 217 stands. 78% corresponded to national companies and 22% remaining to international.

One of the novelties of this edition was the creation of the I Forum of Employment and Learning in Biotechnology with the aim to approach offer and demand of employment inside the sector biotecnológico. In total had a total of 400 inscribed. The most sued profiles were for the scientific area and for the area of development of business, although there were profiles also sued in other areas of the biotechnology. The demandantes were mainly graduates and doctors with experience and linked to the sanitary ware or red biotechnology, main although no exclusively.

Equally the international scope of this meeting of biotechnology remains reflected in the presence of 40% more than foreign companies that in 2010. In total, had the presence of 762 companies, of which 210 proceeded of the outside (28% of the total). Of the same way that has increased until 65,5% the number of international companies that have participated in the commercial exhibition (in total 48). Of the 210 international companies stand out the ones of origin of United Kingdom (6%), France (4%), Germany (2%), United States (2%), Belgium (2%), Switzerland (2%), Holland (1%), Portugal (1%), Italy (1%) and Mexico (1%).

The SAW International Meeting of Biotechnology, BioSpain 2012 (www.biospain2012.org), a biennial evento organised by the Spanish Association of Bioempresas (Asebio) and, in this edition, also by the Society for the Competitive Transformation (SPRI), of the Basque Government has beaten the record figures of the last celebrated edition in Pamplona in 2010. His main aim already achieved was the one to increase the international presence and create a suitable frame of development of business so much for the companies and Spanish institutions as for the foreigners.

Industrial biotechnology

BioSpain 2012 has received for the first time a Forum of Investment centred in industrial biotechnology, Biochem, organised by Feique and Madrid Biocluster. Besides, as all the years, the organisation of BioSpain has created a forum of investment centred in all the fields of the biotechnology, in which they have presented 32 projects in front of a nourished group of investors naciona-them and international. Of the same way, celebrated the Seventh Meeting Far-ma-Biotech organised by Farmaindustria centred in joining researchers with companies in the field of the oncología.

Also has had the scientific congress Biotec 2012, organised by the Spanish Society of Biotechnology (Sebiot), in the frame of the cual celebrated the assembly of this society in which it ratified to Isabel of Kills it like new president of Sebiot.

The thematic of the parallel sessions of BioSpain 2012 have centred this year in treating subjects so notable for the sector like the challenges of Horizon 2020: health and demographic change, alimentary hygiene and sustainable agriculture, energetic efficiency and clean transport, among others.