The Aéropole Science Park is a business incubator and science park located in Gosselies, Charleroi, Belgium, near the Brussels South Charleroi Airport.
It hosts 150 companies, providing around 3,600 jobs. Business and academic clusters are growing up in the following fields : aeronautics, ICT, biotechnologies, industrial engineering, training and R&D centres.[1]
The science park hosts several research institutes including the Centre of Excellence in Information Technology (CETIC), a joint a centre of expertise for the development of Walloon companies founded by the universities of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCLouvain),[2] Namur and Mons;[3] the Cenaero (Research Centre in Aeronautics), an institute for the development of aeronautics and space industry of UCLouvain, the University of Liège and the Université libre de Bruxelles,[4] and the ULB Institute for Molecular Biology & Medicine and the Institute for Medical Immunology, in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals.
The cluster hosts three spin-offs from UCLouvain:[5] Cedit, a technology company, and since 2011, iTeos, a pharmaceutical company founded within the de Duve Institute at UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe and which raised a capital of 75 million US dollars in 2018,[6] and Viridaxis, since 2011.[7]
Several spin-offs of the Université libre de Bruxelles have their headquarters on the site: Henogen, DNA Vision, Bone Therapeutics, Euroscreen, Delphi Genetics, Aliwen, BV Transgenics Services, BioCygnus and ImmuneHealth.[8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Aéropole Charleroi http://www.spow.be/products/aeropole%20%C3%A0%20gosselies%20/ Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Centres de recherche – Charleroi". UCLouvain (in French). Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ "About the Cetic". Centre d'Excellence en Technologies de l'Information (in French).
- ^ "Statutes of the Centre de Recherche en Aeronautique" (PDF). Federal Public Service Justice. Belgian official journal. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Spin-offs (Charleroi)". University of Louvain. Archived from the original on 21 April 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ "iTeos – Our company". iteostherapeutics.com. Archived from the original on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ "Viridaxis History". viridaxis.com. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ Histoire du Biopark, étapes d'une Success Story. http://www.biopark.be/histoire.html Archived 2011-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
External links
edit- Film sur l'Aéropole(French)
- Film(English)
- Aéropole (French)
- Aéropole (English)
- Igretec (French)
- Biopole ULB Charleroi
- Institute for Molecular Biology and Medicine (IBMM)
- Institute for Medical Immunology (IMI)