The BIN@BRAZIL 2013 was held in Ribeirão Preto, in the state of São Paulo, a city known as a Health Pole due the amount of institutions working on this area. The local campus of the University of São Paulo (USP), for example, is the biggest research centre on the area of health in Latin America. The Advanced Pole Foundation Institute of Health (FIPASE), which has organised the event with USP, conducts several programmes to support innovator development and also is a participant in the governance of Healty Industry Cluster and Software Cluster in the region.
In this context, the fourth edition of BIN@ event was geared towards Innovation in Health and other cross-cutting areas. A feature of the event was the large amount of Brazilian participants and also other representatives from the Latin American countries. BIN@BRAZIL has contributed to BIN@’s expansion into a new geographical area as the previous editions of the network had been held in European countries.
The event included a complementary section titled “Round Business”, promoted by Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil). During this part of the programme, the 15 participating companies could network and interact with one aother as well as with the representatives of the SP Ventures and Trivèlla investment funds, altogether representing 25 business meetings. Furthermore, during “Round Business” the Biotechnology Sectorial Project for supporting the companies’ internationalisation was introduced.
More information on the event’s official Facebook page : BIN@BRAZIL 2013
