BIO MEDICINE
4th by turnover amongst manufacturing industries (2022)
10% of total manufacturing exports amongst other industries in Latvia (2022)
27 5
companies in the chemical & pharmaceutical industry
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75.6% of manufactured chemicals & pharmaceutical products are exported (2022)
erritory 64 6 K km
opulation 1.9 M Currency € (EUR)
Languages Latvian, English & Russian; German is also widely spoken
INFRASTRUCTURE THAT MEANS BUSINESS
>5 100 employees in chemical & pharmaceutical companies
• Access to the EU internal market of 490 million people in a matter of hours
• 5G pioneers enabling new solutions
EASY TO START
• Startup visa as fast track for non-EU founders
• EU Blue Card for highly qualified workers & their families
• Temporary Residence Permit as another option
• Long-established capabilities in chemistry R&D
• Strong base of higher education & scientific institutions
HELPING YOU GROW
• 50–60%
of co-finance for Staff Training Last call for applications will open in June
• Support for digitalization of processes in commecial activities
•
455%
Biomedicine leaders emerge from Riga Stradiņš University & University of Latvia
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10Gbps
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high capacity
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2nd
in Europe with 96% of Latvians speaking at least one foreign language
COUNTRY READY FOR ANY CHALLENGES
Covid-19 crisis proved nation’s exceptional agility by developing solutions to create first-ever contact-free Covid testing station, by instituting the first nationally endorsed contact exposure notification app Apturi Covid (Stop Covid) & by creating many more solutions to improve daily life
HELPING CONNECT WORLDS APART
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Initiative to establish high speed data connection between universities, hospitals and research facilities to make big-data transfer possible via high speed data network.
Latvian Biomedical Research & Study Centre is the leading scientific institute in molecular biology & biomedicine in Latvia
Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis is one of the major research centres in the Baltics
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Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence has been established for advanced biomaterials development
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BUSINESSES USING LATVIA AS PLAYGROUND FOR THEIR IDEAS
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