Science meets Business café 14 Feb '13 The Leiden (Bio) Science Park in a nutshell

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Goal of the Science meets Business Cafè

Goals

Meeting place for young professionals in Leiden’s Science & Business

Keeping you up to date with (future) developments in Leiden

A place where you can be inspired and where experiences can be shared

Side affects:

Potentially leading to new opportunities / collaborations

Potentially making the Leiden area stronger

Having a monthly drink with your colleagues/peers

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University Research ParksDefinition, adapted from Link and Scott (2006):

Clusters of technology-based companies organizations that locate on or near a university campus in order to benefit from university’s and each other’s knowledge base in a particular field

25 years LBSP• Start: 1984• Founded by:

- Leiden University- Leiden City

• Supported by Government grant

• Initiative: Rob Schilperoort, Professor of Plant Biotechnology

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1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008

Number of organizations

Companies

Education & Research

Not-for-profit

88Companies with ≈ 3000 people

5 Education & Research with ≈ 7000 people

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At Leiden Bio Science Park

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Observations• “Once established, the ongoing performance depends on the

formation of spin-off companies and the arrival of new ones” (Braunerhjelm (2008), in SCIENCE BUSINESS: How to make clusters happen?)– Spin-offs: from institutions and companies, on park and elsewhere– Independent start-ups– Start of divisions of companies from elsewhere– Merger/acquisition/joint venture– Relocation of companies from elsewhere

• Institutional policies, start-up subsidies, incubation, people?

Type of Company Entry

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Number and type of company entries

startup spin-off merger

division start relocation joint venture0

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startup spin-off division start relocation

Type of entry: % of companies vs % of employees

companies employees

Growth CharacteristicsEndogenous vs exogenous

• Endogenous: involves/induced by organizations or people on park

• Exogenous: stemming from elswhere

• 63 % of company entries with 72 % of employees

New vs existing company

• New: new company (start-up, spin-off, joint venture)

• 74% of companies with 25% of employees

New operation vs relocation

• Relocation: 10% of entries with 22% of personnel

In Ovo wins encouragement prize at Herman Wijffels Innovation prizePublished : Thursday, November 15, 2012

Avery Dennison breaks ground on state-of-the-art european head office and R&D center in the Leiden AreaPublished : Wednesday, October 31, 2012

DC Prime moves from Amsterdam to Leiden

Aeon Astron Europe receives a grant of EURO 500,000 for its BioLens projectPublished : Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Catexel takes offPublished : Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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Some headlines from 2012

5% shares

with JnJ

Acquired in 2009 by Cell Signalling

Technologies (USA)

Acquired in 2013 by

Life Technologies

(USA)

In 2013, merged with Bactimm-

Farma Holding to form Sinensis (NL)

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Public offer in 2012 by Dr.

Reddy’s (India)

Acquired in 2011 by

Johnson&Johnson (USA)

Spring Season 201314 MarchHow non-profit organizations can (and cannot) promote science entrepreneurshipConfirmed: Life Sciences Go Insparco

 11 AprilMergers and Acquisitions: the impact of corporate cultures on a successful outcomesOctoplus Genencor DuPont Mentor Janssen Proxy

16 MayFrom research to business: lessons learned from established companiesConfirmed: BabyBloom CHDR

ToBBB Cosine BAC New Catch

 13 JuneEat or be eaten: How to become and stay successful? Or when to sell your research?Confirmed: In OvoBaseclear HAL Allergy Cosine

Nalco

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Science meets Business café 14 Feb '13 The Leiden (Bio) Science Park in a nutshell

Want to join the Pre-Incubation Programme of the BioPartner Starters office?

Contact Harmen Jousma (jousma@sbb.leidenuniv.nl) or Carien Stulemeijer (carien@biopartnerleiden.nl) for more info!

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Service companies on the park:Proxy: QA, QC, stability testing, assay development, validation

Galapagos: target discovery

Xendo: process development, drug development, validation, RA, GMP, pharmaceutical engineering, clinical trials, bioanalytical service

Batavia Bioservices: early process development

Octoplus: drug delivery technology

TLC: drug delivery technology

TNO Quality of life: drug development

Millipore/Microsafe: microbiology testing

BaseClear: DNA sequencing, forensic support

CHDR: scientific development clinical trials

BioTop: Regulatory Affairs

ServiceXS: genomics service center

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