Review of 10 years of activity

TWB was created in 2012 following a call for projects under the French investment programme "Health and Biotechnology – Pre-industrial Demonstrators". The French National Research Agency (ANR) funded TWB to the tune of €20 million and set a target of €21.8 million in industrial contracts to be signed by the end of 2019. TWB succeeded in meeting this target in the first quarter of 2018 and has now more than €50 million in signed industrial contracts.

TWB: a catalyst for innovation

In 2015, a start-up was created as a result of a pre-competitive project funded by TWB. TWB then decided to launch a new activity: hosting start-ups and giving them access to the platforms' cutting-edge technologies and the teams' know-how. Nine start-ups have been hosted since 2015 and five are currently evolving at TWB:

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. In 2018, TWB created the TWB START-UP DAY, an annual event that brings together international players in the sector: major industrial companies, investment funds, start-ups and academics. Two competitions take place for start-ups and entrepreneurs in the process of creation. Previous winners have come from Israel, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, France, the UK and Germany. The 2022 edition brought together ten speakers and 200 industry professionals from twelve countries.

2022: TWB’s best year to date

This year is marked by a strengthening of its integrated offer with an investment of €2.5M in state-of-the-art technological equipment and new services offered in collaboration with emerging start-ups of the consortium:

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. The industrial integrator

(Toulouse Industrial Biotechnology for Health), which has already supported the set up of a dozen bioproduction projects since 2020, has obtained the renewal of its labeling for a further five years. In July 2022, the Canadian group Premier Tech and the Lyon-based start-up Bon Vivant joined the TWB consortium, strengthening its position in the field of well-being.

Ambitions by 2025

Continue to develop its

to conduct large-scale projects: – Strengthen its

with CRITT Bio-Industries; – Establish

. Strengthen its

: – Double the financial resources deployed for pre-competitive projects led by academic laboratories; – Consolidate its

(off and on site). Build loyalty and develop its

. Become the

via France 2030: – Support project leaders to develop technologies and new production methods for all markets (agriculture, health, food, etc.).