• facilitate greater North-South cooperation
• improve networking
• create a forum for sharing knowledge and models of best practice
• provide the first all-island economic impact study for the sector
• identify strategic benchmarking, both internally and externally
• enable industry, North and South, to deliver greater added-value and compete more effectively in the global marketplace.

BioMedIreland provides an all-island focal point for the sector, which facilitates greater North-South cooperation, improved networking, and the sharing of knowledge and models of best practice within the sector. This enables the industry North and South to deliver greater added-value and compete more effectively in the global marketplace.

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It represents a strategic partnership between InterTradeIreland the Irish Medical Devices Association (IMDA), BioBusiness NI and the Irish BioIndustry Association (IBIA).

Activities

The current strategic focus is in the following four key areas:
1. Networking, education & knowledge dissemination
2. Innovation & commercialisation
3. Profiling & benchmarking
4. Market & trade opportunities

The project is now nearing completion and will be subject to an independent external evaluation. This will inform any new development activity but it is envisaged that subsequent network activity will engage more partners and will involve a group of companies with restricted membership who have agreed to co-operate to achive specfic business objectives that are likely to result in enhanced competitive advantge and/or mutual financial gain.

To find out more about BiomedIreland contact:

Grant Gilmore
InterTradeIreland
The Old Gasworks Business Park
Kilmorey Street
Newry
Co. Down
BT34 2DE

Tel: +44 (0) 28 3083 4186 (048 from Ireland)
Email: grant.gilmore@intertradeireland.com