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      <title>BIO Deutschland Welcomes the Use of Genetic Engineering</title>
      <description><![CDATA[BIO Deutschland called for “an end to the demonization of genetic engineering” ahead of a press conference scheduled by NABU (Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union of Germany) for 7 December 2011. ]]></description>
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      <title>Third Meeting of the Working Group on Communication and Public Relations</title>
      <description><![CDATA[BIO Deutschland’s Working Group on Communication and Public Relations met in Munich for the third time since its establishment in November 2010. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:53:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Working Group on Regulatory Matters Debates New Topics and Projects</title>
      <description><![CDATA[On 15 December 2011, the experts from the Working Group on Regulatory Matters held a conference call to discuss the findings of the survey of the BIO Deutschland members. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/working-group-on-regulatory-matters-debates-new-topics-and-projects.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Basel III: BIO Deutschland Is Lobbying for Easier Credit for Innovative SMEs</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The increase of capital reserves to be held by banks and savings banks planned under Basel III will place a disproportional burden on loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:52:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>International News: India and Contract Research the Focus of the Health – Made in Germany</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Health – Made in Germany, a health sector export initiative started by the Federal Economics Ministry is intended to support German companies via a wide range of measures so that they can enter foreign markets. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>News from the BioRegions: Innovation Prize</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Council of German BioRegions has announced its next Innovation Prize of the Bioregions in Germany. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Working Group on Licences and Technical Contracts Discusses Biopatents and Other Topics</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Many changes are currently taking place in the field of licences. Experts from BIO Deutschland’s Working Group on Licences and Technical Contracts therefore held a teleconference in mid-November to discuss current topics. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/working-group-on-licences-and-technical-contracts-discusses-biopatents-and-other-topics.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Biotechnology CEO &amp; CFO Meeting Discusses the Topics Facing the Sector in the Future</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Cooperation agreements and alliances will safeguard the supply of biotech innovations and further the advance of the biotechnology industry, particularly in the fields of health and raw materials, in the future. This is one of the conclusions of the thirteenth CEO & CFO Meeting of the biotechnology sector, the most important gathering of its kind in Germany. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/biotechnology-ceo-cfo-meeting-discusses-the-topics-facing-the-sector-in-the-future.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>General Assembly elects new BIO Deutschland Board</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The sector association of the biotechnology industry, BIO Deutschland, elected a new board for 2012 and 2013 at its eighth ordinary general assembly, which took place ahead of the leading biotech trade fair, Biotechnica, in Hanover. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/general-assembly-elects-new-bio-deutschland-board.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Biotechnica 2011: Press Conference and Group Stand</title>
      <description><![CDATA[“Sustainability, entrepreneurship and progress – what does biotechnology deliver?” The Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), along with BIO Deutschland, other  DBU project partners (ChemBioTec, Chiracon GmbH, Enzymicals AG and SeSaM-Biotech GmbH), as well as this year’s winner of the Biotechnica-Award, the Swiss technology transfer organisation, Unitectra, had the answers to this question at Biotechnica 2011. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Social Media Webinar Organised by the Working Group on Communication and Public Relations</title>
      <description><![CDATA[On 20 October, BIO Deutschland’s Working Group on Communication and Public Relations held its third webinar in the Sharing Knowledge series. The latest webinar dealt with the topic of social media, including Twitter, Facebook and Xing. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/social-media-webinar-organised-by-the-working-group-on-communication-and-public-relations.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>BIO Deutschland Calls for the Supply of Innovative Medicines to be Made Easier</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The sector association of the biotechnology industry, BIO Deutschland, has called on politicians to remove obstacles to supplying innovative medicines to patients. There will be an opportunity to do so in the amendments to the Health Care Structure Act, which were discussed during a public hearing of the Bundestag’s Health Committee in October. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/bio-deutschland-calls-for-the-supply-of-innovative-medicines-to-be-made-easier.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>News from the BioRegions: Start of the Biotech&#62;inside Initiative</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The BioRegions Working Group is starting a new, Germany-wide series of events called Biotech>inside this autumn. 13 BioRegions are inviting political and media representatives to presentations in order to illustrate the importance of biotechnology for many sectors.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/news-from-the-bioregions-start-of-the-biotechinside-initiative.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>EAPB holds successful Science to Market Conference in Berlin</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Science to Market 2011 (S2M2011), the annual conference of the European Association of Pharma Biotechnology (EAPB), was a great success.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/eapb-holds-successful-science-to-market-conference-in-berlin.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Working Group on Licences and Technical Contracts issues a statement on US patent law reform</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Following tough negotiations, the struggle to reform US patent law, which had been ongoing for several years, has now ended with a positive outcome.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Germany-wide association for industrial cell technology founded</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Lübeck-based Fraunhofer Research Institution for Marine Biotechnology (EMB) is to become a nucleus for innovative developments in modern cell technology. Scientists working in research institutes and industry founded the German Society Industrial Cell Technology during the second Industrial Cell Technology Congress in Lübeck with the aim of promoting the development of innovative products and services. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>BIO Deutschland now on Twitter</title>
      <description><![CDATA[BIO Deutschland set up a Twitter profile in August: http://twitter.com/#!/BIODeutschland. The aim is to provide media representatives and an interested (specialised) audience with information on the association’s activities, as well as current company and sector news. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Association exhibits biotechnology products at a joint stand</title>
      <description><![CDATA[“Sustainability, entrepreneurship and progress – what does biotechnology deliver?” The Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) [German Federal Environmental Foundation], BIO Deutschland and this year’s winner of the Biotechnica Award will answer this question at stand E 42 at Biotechnica 2011. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/association-exhibits-biotechnology-products-at-a-joint-stand.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>22 companies and institutions from Baden-Württemberg sign a letter in support of biotech innovations</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In a letter of mid-August, Jan Schmidt-Brand, a member of the board of BIO Deutschland, CEO of Heidelberg Pharma AG and chairperson of the association’s Working Group on Finance and Taxation called on the Deputy Minister-President and Minister of Finance and Economics of Baden-Württemberg, Nils Schmid (Social Democratic Party of Germany - SPD) to support innovative small and medium-sized enterprises. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Business Development Conference held in Hamburg:  Still hot: partnering between biotech and pharma</title>
      <description><![CDATA[“The biotech funding derived from pharma partnerships increased disproportionally over the last few years and accounted for 65% of biotech funding in 2010,” said Peter Heinrich, President of the German biotechnology industry organisation (BIO Deutschland) at the annual European Business Development Conference in Hamburg.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/business-development-conference-held-in-hamburg-still-hot-partnering-between-biotech-and-pharma.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>BIO Deutschland Yearbook Planned for the End of November</title>
      <description><![CDATA[BIO Deutschland will publish its 2011 yearbook to coincide with the thirteenth CEO+CFO meeting of the biotech sector on 24 and 25 November. The 2,500 copies will be distributed to senior managers and decision-makers in biotech companies, state and federal administration, politicians and the press. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/bio-deutschland-yearbook-planned-for-the-end-of-november.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Second Webinar by BIO Deutschland’s Working Group on Communication and Public Relations</title>
      <description><![CDATA[BIO Deutschland’s Working Group on Communication and Public Relations held the second webinar in its Know-how Exchange series at the beginning of July. The one-hour event, in which around 20 people participated, was a continuation of the webinar on online PR that took place on 14 April 2011. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/second-webinar-by-bio-deutschlands-working-group-on-communication-and-public-relations.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Second BIO Deutschland Board Meeting</title>
      <description><![CDATA[BIO Deutschland’s second board meeting took place in Hamburg on 21 July 2011. The agenda included reports on public relations and events in the first half of the year, a discussion on the association’s positioning on the government’s plans in the field of the bio-economy, and further preparations for the annual general meeting, at which the board will be elected, on 10 October in Hanover. In addition, the development of member numbers and the potential for further growth in the association were discussed. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Call for Fair Market Conditions for Biotech SMEs</title>
      <description><![CDATA[BIO Deutschland called for improvements in academic excellence in the natural sciences and the promotion of fair market conditions at the Federal Economic Ministry’s eighteenth SME Innovation Day, which took place at the end of June. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/call-for-fair-market-conditions-for-biotech-smes.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>International Biotech Meeting in Washington D.C.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The US capital was this year’s host of the global bio congress, BIO International Convention. From 27 to 30 June, over 15,000 participants from 65 countries met, discussed, presented and exhibited in Washington D.C. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.bio-deutschland.org/display-news-entry/items/international-biotech-meeting-in-washington-dc.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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