ROSLIN BIOCENTRE STRENGHTENS RELATIONS WITH BALTICS
Roslin BioCentre welcomed the Deputy Ambassador of Lithuania, Mr Sigitas Mitkus and Honorary Scottish Consul, Mr Charles Cormack, at the Midlothian science park last week.
Part of the Edinburgh Science Triangle, Roslin BioCentre is a life sciences focused science park and home to a number of leading Scottish biotech companies.
The meeting was hosted by Malcolm Bateman, CEO of Roslin BioCentre and Chair of the Edinburgh Science Triangle, and was aimed at encouraging collaboration between Scottish and Baltic technology and biotech sectors.
Lithuania's biotechnology industry has developed rapidly over the past few decades and is now regarded as one of the most sophisticated in Central and Eastern Europe.
Malcolm explained that he hoped to encourage companies in the Edinburgh city region to collaborate and to consider Lithuania as a market to internationalise and export their products and services into the developing markets of Central and Eastern Europe.
He added “Lithuania could provide a high level of expertise in the field of life science within a global market. Hosting visits such as this helps us to encourage high technology companies from the Baltic regions to use Scotland as their base for internationalising their operations.”
Mr. Mitkus said that Nordic-Baltic approach to doing business, adopted by the Lithuanian companies, together with brand new R&D laboratories are ready to embrace closer cooperation with their Scottish counterparts. Recently, Vilnius hosted one of the largest conferences in the Nordic Baltic states “Life Sciences Baltics”, which, according to Sigitas Mitkus “highlighted our potential in the region and also the importance of closer cooperation in globalized world”.
Pictured L to R: Mr Malcolm Bateman, Mr Sigitas Mitkus, Mr Charles Cormack
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