Objectives

1. Enhance local biotechs and healthcare development potentialities throughout transnational opportunities by creation of a meta cluster: Alps Bio Cluster
2. Foster stable cooperation between R&D centres and start-ups as well as SMEs on a transalpine scale by implementing thematic networks federating critical size resources (academic, industrial and training)
3. Create appropriate environment to support the European and international development of SME’s by boosting cooperative innovation process in the Alpine Space
4. Build a global and competitive identity and promote the brand « Alpine »  for the environmental biotech and healthcare sector
5. Promotion the visibility of the transalpine bio-cluster, increase the portofolio of innovation and patents of R&D centres and SME’s inside and outside the Alpine region.
   

Cooperation is a mean to improve innovation and to link scientific results to existing industrial technologies. Finding complementary partner for SME’s is a success key to have a better access to market with a more integrated technology offer and to share the funding of more and more expensive r&d projects in this economic sector.
Cooperation is the best way to prevent from relocation of r&d activities or international acquisitions of promising biotech or healthcare SME’s which are already the major trends in our region.
The creation of a transnational bio cluster will improve policy co ordination (benchmark of experiences and best practices) in a field where the innovation process and the access to international cooperation have to be accompanied and stimulated by public agencies in order to produce economic development for the Alpine territory.