Center for Cluster Development and CoordinationInternational collaboration
International collaborative projects and partnerships
Our Mission
We promote KBIC’s international development through collaboration with biomedical clusters outside Japan and continue these efforts in accordance with its founding philosophy.
MAGIA Alliance
MAGIA Alliance is a union consisted of 4 European medical healthcare clusters – bioPmed (Piedmont, Italy), BioWin (Wallonia, Belgium), Life Science Nord (Hamburg, Germany) and Lyonbiopole (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France) and providing comprehensive supports of business development to associated companies. FBRI has signed MOU with MAGIA Alliance aiming to strengthen international competitiveness of associated companies in the medical device segment in March 2022. With this partnership agreement, MAGIA Alliance and FBRI are promoting international business development of associated companies through networking and supporting activities together.
MAGIA Alliance visited Kobe in October 2022 and had meetings with FBRI, startups and associated companies.
BIOCOM California
San Diego forms the largest biomedical cluster on the west coast of the United States home to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, many established research centers, and biomedical companies. BIOCOM California is the leading presence in the field of life science on the west coast serving over 1700 companies and organizations as members. In October 2016, FBRI signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with BIOCOM California, the non-profit organization to enhance FBRI’s international development.
Together with BIOCOM California, FBRI is actively working on the trans-cluster collaboration on the west coast of the United States.
Start2 Group
Start2 Group is an international innovation support organization with offices in eight countries and operations in more than 20 countries and regions. With strengths in the areas of international expansion support for startups and open innovation support for large companies, Start2 Group has provided programs to more than 2,000 startups. The organization also works with a number of health tech startups, and has established a Life Science Support Center in Boston, which offers programs focused on life sciences.
FBRI has signed a Letter of Collaboration (LOC) with Start2 Group starting in 2022 to provide support for overseas startups in the medical and heathcare fields.
