INTERES Invest in Spain

The biotechnology sector is booming in Spain. In 2006 there were nearly 500 companies involved in biotechnology activities in Spain with a turnover of around 20,000 million euros and R&D spending in excess of 200 million euros according to data provided by the Spanish Association of Bio-Enterprises, ASEBIO.

In Europe this business dynamism is only exceeded by Ireland. Spain provides potential investors in biotechnology companies with impressive human resources, more than 7,000 biotechnology and biomedicine researchers, excellent infrastructures for the development of the sector, and a very favorable regulatory system.

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- Active ingredients from marine organisms

- Biochips. Personalized medicine

- Bio-IT (Information Technology)

- Ecological agriculture

- Food Safety

- Functional Foods

- Generics

- Gene silencing (RNAi)

- Industrial enzymes using transgenic plants

- Medicines from pharmacological target

- Molecular diagnosis and arrays of DNA and proteins

- Nanomedicine

- Pharmacogenetic. Biomarkers

- Therapeutic proteins using non-genetically modified plants-

- Venture capital