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The Bioindustry Park del Canavese (BiPCa) is a Science and Technology Park located in Canavese near Turin in the north-west of Italy.

The Park's mission is: to promote and develop biotechnological research; host companies operating research and development; and pilot production in the life science sector. Companies such as Merck Serono and Bracco have already chosen the Park as the location for their research and development activities.

Contents 1 Services 2 Start-ups 3 Local cluster 4 External links

[edit] Services

The Park offers a complete set of support services to R&D activities, not only offering research facilities and scientific services, but also flexible and attractive financing solutions, sound project management and results evaluation.

The park is the owner of the Laboratory for Advanced Methodologies (LIMA) which, in recent times, has been reorganised on a multidisciplinary technology platform approach. The LIMA provides state of the art services and performs exploitation of scientific results in the fields of Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Proteomics and Bioinformatics. LIMA, thanks to its solid co-operation with the University of Torino and CNR ISPA (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), is also a permanent training site for graduates and researchers.

A University Center in Imaging Technologies (CEIP) managed by University of Torino is also active and is focused on the use of different technologies (MRI, Ultrasound, X-ray, etc) in order to evaluate new solutions in the diagnosis and assessment of the efficacy and efficiency of drugs.

[edit] Start-ups

In 2005 BiPCa has launched, with the support of Regione Piemonte, the Discovery initiative to identify and select innovative entrepreneurial ideas in the Biotech field. Eight start-ups have already been created from the beginning of the project in partnership with Eporgen venture, a Seed capital company focused on investment in new innovative entrepreneurial projects in the biotech field.

[edit] Local cluster

Bioindustry Park is also acting as system integrator for the development of a local cluster and is working in partnership with ADEBAG Grenoble (France) and Bioalps Geneva (Switzerland) for the development of the BioAlpine Cluster, a biotech cluster that intends to promote and foster transalpine competitiveness in the biotech and medical sciences sectors.

[edit] External links

• Il BioIndustry Park del Canavese