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Table 5. Examples of
biotechnology park and medicinal plant park initiatives by developing countries.
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Country |
Feature(s) |
Location |
Remarks |
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Brazil |
Promote R&D in biotech business through transfer of technology and research expertise to the private sector. |
Polo Bio Rio Park, Rio de Janeiro |
First biotech industry park established, over a decade and half ago in Latin America. Overseen by Brazilian Biotech Industry Association with support from Brazilian Association of Science Parks and Institutes |
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China |
Biotechnology Financing Zones planned in Taiwanese science parks with focus on development and commercialization of high-quality biotech products:--Hepatitis B vaccine, diagnostic kits, herbal and medicinal drugs |
Changwa coastal industrial
park |
Sponsored by Taiwan Industrial Development Board |
| Development of a Biotech Valley Concept for food, medicine, floriculture, agribiotech, bioprocessing of raw materials | Yunnan area which includes the Kunming Hi Tech Incubation zone, and the Kunming Economic zone with planned biotech corridor that links up research centres and several industrial parks | Approved and financed by Central Government | |
| Institute of Medicinal Plants established in 1983 | Medicinal plant farms in Yunnan, Hainan and Guangx provinces | Recognised WHO Collaborating Centre on Traditional Medicine | |
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Egypt |
Commercialization of Biotech research results for targeted end-users |
Establishment of a specialized BIOGRO Unit at the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), Giza, to interact with the Genetic Engineering Science Unit (GESU) for speeding up commercialization of high-quality products and services |
Sponsored and maintained by AGERI |
| Transfer of research into resource businesses and products; biotech markets need to be developed | Development of biotechnology in bio-based incubators established in Assiut, Banha, and Mansoura University; science industrial parks planned | Egyptian Incubator Association | |
| Use of best practices in management of medicinal plants in St. Katherine's protectorate in the Sinai Farmaya Laboratory | Conservation of medicinal plants in arid ecosystems; management of endangered plants; establishment of small /medium -scale enterprises; protection of intellectual property rights in medicinal plant parks | Programme activities administered by the Egyptian Environmental Agency (EEAA) with support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Development Programme | |
| Guatemala | Farmaya Laboratory | Organic cultivation of medicinal plants, pharmacological research, production of plant-derived pharmaceuticals, development of protocols for safe use and screening of 700 different plants. 15 pharmaceutical products developed using traditional knowledge of indigenous and rural groups | Collaborates with Central America Centre of Studies on Appropriate Technologies; National Commission for Use of Medicinal Plants serves as a model for Latin American countries in developing guidelines for plant-based pharmaceuticals; Co-operates in IDRC project on Application, Research and Dissemination of the Use of Medicinal Plants in the Caribbean. |
| India |
Manufacturing of innovative biotech products |
Biotechnology Park at Turkapally, Andhra Pradesh |
Sponsored by Andhra Pradesh Government |
| Harnessing of the benefits of biotechnology to provide self-employment openings to women entrepreneurs | Women's biotechnology park, Chennai | Sponsored by Tamil Nadu Government,Department of Biotechnology (Govt of India); Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation and M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation | |
| Development of new biotech industries; Emergence of entrepreneurs in genomics, biofuels and biotech contract services |
2 biotech-bioinformatics parks at Bangalore and Dharwar, and a marine biotechnology park at Karwar, Karnataka |
Sponsored by University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore: Institure of Agricultural Biotechnology, Dharwar: and Institute of Biotechnology. Karwar, and Vision Group of Biotechnology | |
| Focus on Biotech applications: biocommerce, industry and R&D infrastructure conforming to international reference standards -pharmaceuticals, food and fermentation technology, biomedical engineering, and veterinary medicine |
3 Parks foreseen at Ernakalulum, Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala Multidisciplinary Biotech Park involving government institutions and Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow |
Sponsored by Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants; National Botanical and Drug Research Institutes; and Industrial Toxicological Research Centre |
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Development of pharmaceutical and healthcare production units; herbal/cosmetic and environment-friendly products; use of biosensors in bioprocessing of food items; and attraction of expatriate entrepreneurial expertise |
Biotech Park in Kalamboli, Navi Mumbai (New Bombay) with focus on establishing a knowledge corridor between Bombay and Pune Industrial Biotechnology Park and All-Indian Bioinformatics Network , Pune to host information technology and biotechnology programmes; schools in the environmental sciences; and to develop contract research organizations (ROS) with good manufacturing practices |
Promoted by City and Industrial Corporation of Maharashtra (CIDCO) | |
| Potential for economic advancement | Ladwal Biotech Park. Punjab | Promoted by All-India Biotech Association | |
| 30 in situ Medicinal Plant Conservation Areas | A Medicinal Plant Conservation Park at Pitchandikulam in Auroville Centre, Karnataka. Park museum houses a photo -reference exhibition of some 240 plants in the region; a seed propagation nursery to conserve endangered medicinal plants; a forest ethnomedicinal sanctuary of some 350 plants; a genebank; a herbal garden; and a disseminating facility linked with large-scale production in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu | Programme launched in 1993 by Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions | |
| Development of drugs from medicinal plants and herbs. Promotion of ethno-pharmacological research | Herbal Gene Bank at the Tropical Botanic Garden Research Institute, Thiruvananthapurnam | All-India ethnobiological project | |
| Malaysia | Emerging Technologies-manufacture of medical and scientific instruments; advanced biomaterials; contract R&D services | Kulum Hi-tech Park. Kuala Lumpur | Sponsored by Kulum Technology Park Corporation Sdn Bhd |
| Nepal |
Herbal and medicinal plant |
Medicinal plants cultivated in Doti, Shivpuri, Tistung, Tarakav and Urindavan herbal farms. | Research studies in co-operation with universities |
| Singapore | Pharma Zone for biotech and pharmaceutical companies | Agri-Bio Park --six agrotechnology parks being established to produce ornamental flowers and plants, food fish, ornamental fishes, and vegetables | Promoted by Institute of Molecular Agrobiology, Economic Development Board, and Primary Production Department |
| Sri Lanka | Inventorisation of plant genetic resources, medicinal plants and taxonomic data analyses | Establishment of a Women's Biotechnology Park foreseen | GEF/ World Bank project in framework of the Taxonomic Initiative |
| South Africa |
Agricultural engineering, Plant production and animal wildlife healthcare |
Porsequor Technopark, Pretoria |
Maintained by Hatfield Experimental Farm and University of Pretoria |
| Catalyse R & D interaction between biotech companies and universities in the Western Cape; natural products research | Technopark in Stellenbosch
with focus on agriculture, food, aquaculture and marine products Conservation and use of east and southern Africa's medicinal plants |
Maintained by Unistel Pvt.Ltd. and Stellenbosch University Natural Products Research Institute; WHO Centre for Drug Policy in the Western Cape |
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