{"id":15363,"date":"2019-01-07T07:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T05:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=15363"},"modified":"2019-01-08T12:28:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T10:28:13","slug":"innovative-enterprise-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/innovative-enterprise-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Enterprise of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Two of the companies, co-founding the first Health & Life Science Cluster in Bulgaria, have received awards at the <\/span>\u2018<\/span>Innovative Enterprise of the Year\u2019 contest. These are<\/span> Micar Innovation<\/span><\/a> and<\/span> Printivo<\/span><\/a>, which are both among the initiators and co-founders of the association, the <\/span>C<\/span>luster stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the 14<\/span>th<\/span> edition of the <\/span>\u2018<\/span>Innovative Enterprise of the Year\u2019 contest at the initiative of the Applied Research and Communications Foundation and Enterprise Europe Network – Bulgaria with the support of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018<\/span>Micar Innovation\u2019 received the<\/span> \u2018<\/span>Innovative Start-up Enterprise\u2019 award for 2018. This is the third prestigious award for the company within a year after winning the 2017 Best Biotech Startup Award at the end of 2017 at the CESAwards and the CIDIC Special Award at the<\/span> European Center for Economic, Academic and Cultural Diplomacy<\/span><\/a> this summer. The latter also helped the company to enter the Roots Analysis Ranking of the 250 Global Companies in the Pharmaceutical Industry. This ranked the Sofia-based company <\/span>among <\/span>world-renowned names such as Sanofi, Merk, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

The founder of the company, which has created the successful platform for rapid screening and discovery of new drug molecules for preclinical research for a large number of diseases, is<\/span> Dimitar Dimitrov<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>who in 2018 <\/span>became <\/span>C<\/span>hairman and founder of the first Health & Life Science Cluster in Bulgaria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another founder of the cluster – Printivo, the innovative company for 3D <\/span>bioprinting <\/span>of human tissues, was the leader in the <\/span>\u2018<\/span>Quality of Life\u2019 category. In recent months, the company received a number of awards – it <\/span>became <\/span>a national winner and regional finalist at the CESAwards 2018 in Warsaw, and <\/span>also received<\/span> the CIDIC Award for the great social importance of the technology it has developed. Printivo is also the winner of BetaPitch Sofia, becoming a finalist at BetaPitch Global in Berlin in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

The company’s creators believe that printing a whole human <\/span>organ <\/span>over the next decade is not <\/span>an <\/span>utopia. Currently, Printivo’s team is working to create 3D-printed live human bone.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can learn more about the other enterprises awarded at the \u2018Innovative Enterprise of the Year 2018\u2019 <\/span>national contest<\/span> here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The <\/span>Health & Life Science Cluster<\/span><\/a> was created in 2018 to establish and promote Bulgaria as a global center of innovation in the field of biotechnology and health and life sciences, and to bring together the efforts of specialists, companies, educational institutions and non-governmental organizations in the sector in order to create and transform ideas into new technological products on the market.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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