Two winners 5th edition of EuropaBio's Most Innovative Biotech SME Award 2014

The European Biotech SME Award is geared towards small and medium-sized companies in all areas of biotechnology: health, agriculture, and industry. The award aims to showcase European Biotech SMEs that have developed an innovative solution to technical, social and environmental problems.

Last year, two companies were announced as winners of the 5th edition of EuropaBio's Most Innovative Biotech SME Award 2014: French healthcare biotech SME Erytech Pharma and Bio-on, an Italian industrial biotech SME. Next call for applications: early February 2015.

EuropaBio is the European Association for BioIndustries and was created in 1996 to provide a voice for the biotech industry at the EU level. EuropaBio's mission is to promote an innovative and dynamic biotechnology-based industry in Europe. Members of EuropaBio are involved in the research, development, testing, manufacturing and commercialisation of biotechnology products and processes. Its corporate members cover a wide range of activities including companies focusing on human and animal health care, diagnostics, bio-informatics, chemicals, crop protection, agriculture, food and environmental products as well as service-providing companies.