A QUEBEC CITY PREMIERE
by Daniel Allard
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| BIO AGRO CONTACT 97 A QUEBEC CITY PREMIERE by Daniel Allard
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| The Québec food, agriculture and
biotechnology industries will now have their yearly top level happening : Bio Agro
Contact. This event started in Québec City first. Organized by the Société de promotion économique du Québec métropolitain (SPEQM), along with the Corporation de développement économique et industriel de la région de Saint-Hyacinthe (CDEI) and many research centers, ministries and universities, this event will be held in turn in Quebec and Saint-Hyacinthe. For the premiere in Québec City, roughly 250 participants gathered at the Château Frontenac on November 10. This symposium on the food and agriculture partnership attempts to encourage the linking and development of business networks, between the technological, industrial, financial and advising expert players, to sustain the development of existing enterprises and the creation of new ones. The Project Development Director at the SPEQM, Jean Mercier, explains that Bio Agro Contact also has for objective to better position the region on international markets. This objective is comparable to other initiatives taken by the SPEQM in the biopharmaceutical (with BioCONTACT since 1994), environmental (with Partenariat Enviro-CONTACT in 1996) and laser-optical (with OPTO-CONTACT in 1997) domains. This fourth initiative will probably become an internationally acclaimed event in the coming years. In fact, representatives of VALTTEC S.A. (Poitou, France) and the Agence française pour l'innovation, the Faculté universitaire Notre-Dame de la Paix, the Centre d'entreprise et d'innovation-Bureau économique de la Province- Parc scientifique (BEPN) and the Moutarderie Bister of Namur as well as the Faculté universitaire des sciences agronomiques of Gembloux (the last four from Belgium) to which we may add two Americans of Fairfield (Maine) already gives Bio Agro Contact an international character. |
The symposium enabled a dozen
representatives working in technologically-oriented and new technology enterprises, to
expose the results of their research and their needs, before a highly strategic forum. Saint-Hyacinthe The first Canadian Technopolis The first Technopolis in Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe now regroups 108 food and agriculture enterprises and 17 research centers and training institutions. The city has also been host to the First International Congress of Technopolis specialized in food and agriculture and biotechnology in 1996. A Profile of the activities of the Food and Agriculture Technopolis of Québec
The Technopolis is animated and coordinated by the Corporation de
développement économique et industriel of the Saint-Hyacinthe region. It is part of the
Club international des Technopoles. For more information: |
