BioPolis. Inventory and Analysis of National Public Policies that Stimulate Biotechnology Research, its Exploitation and Commercialisation by Industry in Europe in the Period 2002-2005

The goal of the project BIOPOLIS has been to gather all available data on public biotechnology R&D funding and policy performance in 32 European countries. From these data was drawn a realistic picture for each country, corresponding to the period 2002-2005. The three contracting teams covered the 27 EU Member States and the accession candidates Croatia and Turkey, as well as Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland. The contractors analysed the data in view of assessing the national biotechnology policies and compared, based on earlier studies, the biotechnology policy performances of 15 Member States over the period 1994-2005. They also formulated general recommendations.