Due to a couple of apologies and a request for the attendance of Mr John Coyle - HunterNet to give a presentation to the Establishment Group, the meeting scheduled for the Establishment Group this Tuesday evening (June 24th) will be postponed to Tuesday the 8th July 2008, location if available will be the University - Chancellery Committee Meeting Room.
Establishment Group meet from 4.30pm - 5.30pm - to discuss the constitution and receive the presentation from John, then hold the next meeting of the Hunter Bio Tx Cluster from 6pm - 7pm. Agenda items to be forward shortly.
Please advise via return email or to 49 787836 your RSVP for the new date.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
OPPORTUNITY
· Create the linkages to allow the local Therapeutic Goods and Biotech producers to flourish creating a new regional skills focus for the long term good of the region as a whole
· Create a jobs network for skilled graduates and increase the local career market
· Opportunity for new levels and types of training – both skilled and semi-skilled and the opportunity for training including TAFE, University and Post Graduate
· Opportunity to involve local research institutions to create the environment wherein local inventions and develops may be cultured and bought to market thus increasing the “intellectual and social” capital based within the Hunter Region
· Opportunity to create a genuinely Expert Focus within the Hunter for Therapeutic Goods and the Biotechnology sector
· Involvement with the Government to bring Investment into the Hunter and build long term value into infrastructure at all levels
· Create a jobs network for skilled graduates and increase the local career market
· Opportunity for new levels and types of training – both skilled and semi-skilled and the opportunity for training including TAFE, University and Post Graduate
· Opportunity to involve local research institutions to create the environment wherein local inventions and develops may be cultured and bought to market thus increasing the “intellectual and social” capital based within the Hunter Region
· Opportunity to create a genuinely Expert Focus within the Hunter for Therapeutic Goods and the Biotechnology sector
· Involvement with the Government to bring Investment into the Hunter and build long term value into infrastructure at all levels
THERAPEUTIC GOODS & BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE HUNTER
· Currently embryonic and not well associated
· Locality and proximity to Education & training but with a low existing local skills base (workers being imported into the area with insufficient local training interconnectivity)
· Skilled workers graduating from local University forced to move out of the area due to the lack of suitable local work (a constant brain drain)
· Local ideas lost to foreign developers (loss of Intellectual Capital) and consequent failure to train and maintain a skilled work force
· Most current producers of Therapeutic Goods and Biotechnology Products are Australian mid-sized businesses with common problems
· Locality and proximity to Education & training but with a low existing local skills base (workers being imported into the area with insufficient local training interconnectivity)
· Skilled workers graduating from local University forced to move out of the area due to the lack of suitable local work (a constant brain drain)
· Local ideas lost to foreign developers (loss of Intellectual Capital) and consequent failure to train and maintain a skilled work force
· Most current producers of Therapeutic Goods and Biotechnology Products are Australian mid-sized businesses with common problems
GOALS OF THE CLUSTER
· Facilitate resolutions to common problems amongst members
· Meet common needs of the members where mass will assist and give leverage
· Extend and expand business opportunities
· To promote the Hunter as a foci for Therapeutics and Biotechnology with the Hunter becoming an Investment Corridor for specialist businesses in the Therapeutics and Biotechnology (T & B) space
· To facilitate as a business incubator or to provide inter-operable connectivity for new or existing T & B technologies or companies.
· Meet common needs of the members where mass will assist and give leverage
· Extend and expand business opportunities
· To promote the Hunter as a foci for Therapeutics and Biotechnology with the Hunter becoming an Investment Corridor for specialist businesses in the Therapeutics and Biotechnology (T & B) space
· To facilitate as a business incubator or to provide inter-operable connectivity for new or existing T & B technologies or companies.
THE HUNTER
· A growth area with land, an excellent and growing university, and a ready and skilled
workforce
· The Hunter Region is in transition still after the loss of the BHP steel works and more
closures recently announced
· Coal provides a current back bone to the regional economy but this is a dangerously
narrow focus for economic activity and hazardously exposes the region to the vagaries of
global markets
· There is substantial development intended for the Hunter Region in terms of available
Industrial land, proximity to existing and proposed infrastructure (roads, rail and airport)
workforce
· The Hunter Region is in transition still after the loss of the BHP steel works and more
closures recently announced
· Coal provides a current back bone to the regional economy but this is a dangerously
narrow focus for economic activity and hazardously exposes the region to the vagaries of
global markets
· There is substantial development intended for the Hunter Region in terms of available
Industrial land, proximity to existing and proposed infrastructure (roads, rail and airport)
BACKGROUND
· The Therapeutic Goods and Biotechnology sector is worth up to $4 billion in Australia
· The sector in NSW is beginning to become more organised with a lot of effort through
DSRD
· There is no foci as with other states such as Melbourne or Brisbane
· Melbourne has the BioMelbourne Cluster with 500 members
· There is no land or regional focus developed in Sydney despite 10 years of efforts
· Sydney is disconnected without any real networking between disconnected companies and
research teams
· Development within Therapeutic and Biotech clusters have proven success in bringing
large increases in investment and capital into a genuine region e.g. Western Ireland,
BioMelbourne
· The sector in NSW is beginning to become more organised with a lot of effort through
DSRD
· There is no foci as with other states such as Melbourne or Brisbane
· Melbourne has the BioMelbourne Cluster with 500 members
· There is no land or regional focus developed in Sydney despite 10 years of efforts
· Sydney is disconnected without any real networking between disconnected companies and
research teams
· Development within Therapeutic and Biotech clusters have proven success in bringing
large increases in investment and capital into a genuine region e.g. Western Ireland,
BioMelbourne
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