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This is an excerpt from a talk that was given to the Blue Biotech Conference in Greifswald, Germany in August 2018.

Money is a pressing issue for most small businesses. For start-ups in the Biotechnology area this issue can be particularly acute because they frequently have relatively large R&D expenditure, few tangible assets and generate little in the way of cash flow. Knowledge is often their primary asset.

On 7. September 2018, the BalticRIM Project was introduced by Daniel Zwick (ALSH) at the 24^th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Barcelona, Spain.

Smart Blue Regions will contribute to the further development of smart specialisation strategies by hosting an inspiring workshop “Smart societies – blue growth regions” during the Baltic Sea Subregional States Cooperation (BSSSC) Annual Conference, taking place on 11-12th September in Gdańsk. The main theme of the conference is “Solidarity, participation and smart action for a better future”. The programme of our workshop is available here.

A Smart Blue Regions workshop dedicated to the development of a multi rotor system for wind turbines was held in Gdansk on 13^th-14^thAugust. It was the first of the workshops planned within the framework of the Smart Blue Regions project to support transnational innovative ventures that fit into the blue smart specializations of the Baltic Regions. So far, 20 topics for cooperation have been identified in the course of the SBR project.

SUBMARINER Network together with The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), the Tartu Biotechnology Park and 4 SMEs from the Baltic Blue Biotechnology ALLIANCE are going to the Biomarine Business Convention in Cascais Portugal. Our aim is to promote blue bio actors and initiatives from the Baltic Sea Region to the global Biomarine business community.

Last week more than 90 delegates met in Greifswald at the conference “Blue Biotechnology in the Baltic Sea Region: From Science to Business”.

The conference will engage a wide range of interested stakeholders from the business community, public administrations and academia. The aim is to present the EU-wide Multi-Use Action Plan that addresses a variety of multi-use combinations including offshore wind farms combined with the wave technology or different types of aquaculture, but also some ‘softer’ approaches to multi-use such as underwater cultural heritage in combination with tourism or ‘pescatourism’. 

On 22 January 2019 the Smart Blue Regions project together with the other Submariner Network projects will host the Conference “The Role of Regions in fostering Blue Growth” in Berlin.

Do you want to know where are the best spots for mussel farming in the Baltic Sea? What the environmental impacts of such a farm could be? Look no further, the BBG project has launched its Operational Decision Support System (ODSS) with a “plan your farm” feature.