High quality furnished offices and fully flexible laboratories
BLSI offers a 2.350 m2 gross area distributed in 30 office/lab modules established on 2 floors and connected with a modern and convivial lounge area. Furthermore, common areas, as well-equipped meeting rooms, cafeteria with catering services, copying and scanning facilities… are shared within the BLSI entrepreneurial community.

Proximity to an extensive knowledge base
BLSI is at the heart of the Brussels campus of the Université catholique de Louvain and is surrounded by the faculty of medicine and its research institutes like the de Duve Institute (5,500 students and 1,000 teachers / researchers), the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc (900 beds and 4,700 employees) various high schools (7,000 students) and famous research centers such as the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC - 200 employees). BLSI proximity allows hosted companies to rely on a pool of highly-skilled human resources and to benefit from a wide range of services offered by the UCL laboratories such as a privileged access to scientific equipment.

Business support and mentoring
BLSI provides young entrepreneurs and start-up companies with professional business support such as:

BLSI main shareholders are the Brussels Region and the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), a major Belgian university, with more than 21.000 students and 5.000 academics, researchers and staff. UCL has a long tradition of technological companies’ creation in the health sector, with famous success-stories as IBA, IBt or Telemis.
BLSI is managed by the Louvain Technology Transfer Office, composed of a multidisciplinary team combining a strong scientific background and an accomplished business experience, supported by an extended network of legal, financial and commercial experts.

Brussels Life Science Incubator will open its doors mid-2011 after a full renovation of the hosting facilities.