Leiden Bio Science Park

One of the entrances to the park.
Location	Leiden & Oegstgeest, South Holland, Netherlands
Address	J.H. Oortweg 19, 2333CH Leiden
Coordinates	52°10′3″N 4°27′56.88″E / 52.16750°N 4.4658000°E / 52.16750; 4.4658000
Opening date	1984
Owner	Municipality of Leiden, Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center
No. of workers	19,000
Size	272 acres
Website	http://leidenbiosciencepark.nl

The Leiden Bio Science park (LBSP) is the largest life sciences cluster in the Netherlands^[1] and ranks in the top five of the most successful science parks in Europe.^[2] It is part of Leiden and Oegstgeest and focuses on companies and universities in the Biotechnology sector.

The park comprises 110 hectares (270 acres) with over 215 organisations, including 150 Life Sciences & Health companies.^[3] The park is located mostly in Leiden and lies between Wassenaarseweg on the north and the Plesmanlaan on the south.

The park focuses mostly on the use of biotechnology for medical and biopharmaceutical applications.

History[edit]

The LBSP was founded in 1984 in the Leeuwenhoek area west of Leiden Central Station, between the Faculty of Science of the Leiden University and the former Academic Medical Hospital Leiden, now known as the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). The municipality decided that this area should primarily be focused on biotechnology.

In 2005 the foundation Leiden Life meets Science was founded by the Leiden University, the municipality Leiden, the LUMC, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Chamber of Commerce, the province South Holland, the University of Applied Sciences Leiden, and the ROC Leiden, with the purpose of growth the park in size and quality.

Research and Education[edit]

• Alrijne Ziekenhuis Leiden
• Biotech Training Facility
• Boerhaave Nascholing
• Centre of Human Drug Research (CHDR)
• Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS)
• Corpus museum
• Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing (DICA)
• Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)
• Leiden instrumentmakers School (LiS)
• Leiden University
• Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)
• MBO Rijnland, Laboratory studies
• Naturalis Biodiversity Center
• Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)
• University of Applied Sciences Leiden (UAS Leiden)

Companies[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Leiden Bio Science Park - official website