1. Interregio Network meeting: Internationalisation in lifesciencesDiepenbeek (B)October 5th 2011

2. Welcome and introduction Piet Stinissen UHasselt-BIOMED and LifeTechLimburg Hasselt, October 5th, 2011

3. A short intro on Interregio meetings Focus : medicaltechnology and lifesciences Target audience: knowledgeinstitutes, industry, hospitals, investors, governmentagenciesfromregion Limburg (B), Limburg (NL), Brabant (NL) 3 meetings everyyear Presentations and ampleopportunityfornetworking

4. Partners

5. This meeting: part of TTC-project

6. Currenttheme:Internationalisation in lifesciences

7. A standarddevelopment plan in medicaltechnology

8. Why do I need to go international? How do I getstarted? Whereshould I start? It is a large globe … Whocan help me? Funding ? … Focus oninternationalisation

9. Platform fordevelopment of biomedicallifesciencesand medicaltechnologyin Limburg (B)

10. LifeTechLimburg: partners

11. LifeTechLimburg-team

12. RESEARCH PROJECTS UniversitiesHospitals lifetech@work, Vividlinks(skills³), TTC FINANCE LRM, Government, European Union NETWORKS Belgium, EU INFRASTRUCURE BioVille, …

13. ‘Helping hand’ Look for partners in company, hospital, research … Guiding to fundingorganisations Organisation workshops forcompanies, researchers … Networkingevents Role in acquisionstrategy ‘Localhub’ fornationalorganisations ….

14. Projects: LTL+ EFRO project Strengtheninnovation Technology cafés Partners Innovatiecentrum Limburg FlandersBio

16. BIOMEDICA

17. BioVille: the lifesciences incubator

19. LRM: focus onlifesciences www.lrm.be

20. Snapshot of Biomedical Life Sciences in Limburg (B) Biopharma (diagnostics, therapy) Biotech: Apitope, Mubio, Complix, Arcarios, … Pharmaceuticalcompanies: Amakem, Seps-Pharma, PharmaNeuroBoost,… Healthcare innovation(telemonitoring, e-health, domotica, medicaldevices, biomaterials…) IT / domotica: Essec, Cegeka, Androme, i-Know, Aristoco, … Medicaldevices / medicaltechnology: Aporis, Medinvents, Melotte, Helvoet Pharma, Spronken, ... Service providers: LC Patents, Thema group, …

21. Focus ontechnologicalinnovation in healthcare

24. Zorgideeorganizers LifeTechLimburg & partners: New edition: December 16th, 2011 @ UHasselt

25. www.lifetechlimburg.be

26. Next Meeting Eindhoven, January 2011