Life Cooperative

Impact through real cooperation

SMEs determine the course of the Healthy Ageing theme. LifeScience and Medical Technology SMEs unite to increase the innovativeness of the Northern Netherlands. The Healthy Ageing Business Cooperative has been active since January...More information

Shared vision on Biomarkers

Biomarker Bay, BBay, is a Biomarker service consortium offering one portal for the full range of Biomarker assays, biomarker confirmation & assay development, assay validation, clinical validation and bioanalysis of biomarkers. BBay...More information

Lobbying together

Increased strength In order to influence policy makers of regional governments and institutes, Life Science and Medical Technology SMEs in the Northern part of the Netherlands are uniting in the Healthy Ageing Business Cooperative.

Organising together

Increased efficiency The cooperative develops solutions to meet shared challenges. Collective training, combined purchasing of laboratory equipment and materials, and shared visits to international fairs and congresses are some of the current examples of efficiency measures.

Developing together

Increased innovation Together, the cooperative SMEs developed research-, development- and supply-chains that result in efficient innovations, i.e. in the field biomarker validation, biomaterial development and 3D imaging and printing.

Latest news

Worldwide market at LIFE Cooperative’s feet

Monday 5 November 2018

A delegation of SMEs in the Life Science and MedTech sector in the North is participating in Europe's largest BIO & Life Sciences conference in Copenhagen. Alderman Joost van Keulen (Economy &...Continue reading

Polyganics strengthens global distribution network

Thursday 13 September 2018

Polyganics, a privately held medical technology company that develops, manufactures and commercializes bioresorbable medical devices, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Synovis...Continue reading