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Healthcare Drive Sees Dubai Science Park Attract Leading Global Companies in 2020
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ore than 400 companies and 4,000 professionals are based in Dubai Science Park today, after a global push to bolster healthcare systems served as a catalyst for biotechnology, pharmaceutical and life sciences leaders to join the business district. Top global companies joined Dubai Science Park, the region’s leading science and healthcare-focused business district, last year as the importance of science, technology and medical innovation came to the fore. Many existing business partners also expanded their presence, opening new offices and innovation centres to develop new products as Dubai reinforced its position as an attractive destination for healthcare-focused companies. New businesses at Dubai’s top science district include New York Stock Exchange-listed biotechnology multinational Biogen, which makes neurological disease treatments; Dubai-based
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DGrade, the first bottle-to-yarn manufacturing company to make clothes out of plastic waste; and Indian’s largest biopharmaceutical company, Biocon, which has a presence in more than 120 countries, employs over 12,000 staff, and develops medicine to treat diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Dubai: A Hub for Scientific Talent In addition to a raft of new companies, existing business partners including Germany’s life sciences leader Bayer expanded its presence by opening a new regional headquarters in Dubai Science Park. Bayer’s office design incorporates new ways of working founded on what it dubs an ‘activity-based-work set-up’. This underlying conceptual approach aims to set new benchmarks in workplace organisation, productivity, efficiency, and wellbeing. Meanwhile, US-based IFF opened earlier this year a new creation, application and innovation
THE NEW LAB IS SUPPORTING BOTH THE CREATION AND APPLICATION NEEDS OF ALL KEY CATEGORIES, INCLUDING SNACKS, BEVERAGES, SAVOURY, SWEET AND DAIRY.
