Biotech City and Genopole sign agreement that opens scientific and commercial exchange channels.As part of his economic mission to Canada and Quebec, French Industry Minister Francois Loos and Michelle Courchesne Michelle Courchesne (born May 6, 1953 in Trois-Rivières is a Quebec politician. A member of Quebec Liberal Party, she is the National Assembly Member for the riding of Fabre in Laval, Quebec. , Minister of Employment and Social Solidarity Social Solidarity is the degree or type (see below) of integration of a society. This use of the term is generally employed in sociology and the other social sciences. According to Émile Durkheim, the types of social solidarity correlate with types of society. and Minister responsible for the Laval region, participated in the signature of a formal agreement between Genopole (Evry, France) and the City of Biotechnology and Human Health of Metropolitan Montreal (Biotech City (Quebec, Canada)). This agreement is a key aspect of the cooperation between Quebec and France. The signing ceremony A signing ceremony is a ceremony in which a bill passed by a legislature is signed (approved) by an executive, thus becoming a law. Modern-day signing ceremonies are derived from ceremonies that occurred when the British monarch gave Royal Assent to acts of Parliament. for this important alliance took place at the Biotech City in the INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier offices in the presence of Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt Born on January 9th 1941, Gilles Vaillancourt became mayor of the city of Laval, QC Canada in 1989 and president of the "Union des municipalités du Québec" (from April 1995 to April 1997). , Genopole Chief Executive Pierre Tambourin tam·bou·rin n. 1. a. A long, narrow, two-headed drum used in Provence. b. One who plays this drum. 2. A style of dance in lively two-beat rhythm, accompanied by this drum. , and Biotech City President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Pierre Belanger. Genopole is a sector of excellence dedicated to genomics and life sciences. Like the Biotech City in Quebec, the Genopole is home to academic and private research laboratories, biotech firms and institutions of higher learning higher learning n. Education or academic accomplishment at the college or university level. . The two campuses are not only complementary in nature, they share the same science and business centre mission. This agreement covers the mutual sharing of strategic information on companies in Quebec and in France interested in expanding, respectively, to Europe and North America, government programs aimed at supporting businesses and industrial research projects, and companies interested in opening their capital to foreign investors, and the formation of partnerships between businesses incubating or set up on the respective sites and ready to gain visibility, in North America and Europe. The agreement bodes well for greater collaboration between the Meditech Sante Competitiveness Hub and the City of Biotechnology and Human Health of Metropolitan Montreal. Lastly, an action plan has already been drafted for business development in three sectors of activity in the first year. Genopole has already signed a strategic agreement in 2001 with the Biotech City's incubator, QBIC QBIC Query By Image Content QBIC queries based on image content QBIC Cubic Format (Quebec Biotechnology and Innovation Centre). The Genopole campus in Evry revolves around genomics, post-genomics and related sciences as well as a complete set of advanced training. Thanks to Universite d'Evry-Val d'Essonne, over 1,800 people in 26 academic research laboratories and 51 innovative biotechs are located on 71,000 square metres of space. Biotech City was created around the Institut national de la recherche scientifique The Institut national de la recherche scientifique (French, National Institute of Scientific Research) is the research-oriented branch of Université du Québec. INRS conducts research in four broad sectors: water, earth and the environment; energy, materials and , research centres and a critical mass of biotech and biopharmaceutical companies, including a number of world leaders in their respective fields. It also boasts an exceptional accommodation capacity bolstered by highly attractive tax incentives for companies that choose to locate in the Biotech City. The City of Biotechnology and Human Health of Metropolitan Montreal is located on one million square meters of land in Laval, at the heart of an innovative university and business network. Biotech City +1-450-978-5961 www.citebiotech.com Genopole www.genopole.com |
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