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September 29, 2006.

Micro & Nanotechnologies become inescapable for innovation and Life Sciences development

Yole Developpement, a market research and business development consulting company, specialized in microtechnologies, takes advantage of the EuroBIO 2006 event to launch two contributions of significant interest for all companies interested in nanotechnologies and micro-systems applied to Life Sciences:
· The LifeScienceIC report presenting stakes for microelectronics in Life Sciences.
· The Business Convention Innovation Dating "When Micro & Nanotechnologies meet Life Sciences Industry", on Friday October 27th.
Just following the release of its annual report LifeScienceIC on the state-of-the-art of microelectronics for the Life Sciences industry, Yole is launching Innovation Dating "When Micro & Nanotechnologies meet Life Sciences Industry", the first business convention aiming at facilitating the meeting of scientist and business developers from both worlds of microtechnologies and Life Sciences. This business convention will held in conjunction with EuroBIO 2006, in Paris on Friday October 27th, at Hotel Concorde Lafayette.
Successes of Agilent, Affymetrix, Boehringer Ingelheim described in the LifeScienceIC report show that a significant part of tomorrow's therapeutic innovation will be based on micro and nano-systems.

On Friday October 27th, during a one day business convention, Yole Développement and its partners (Epigem, TRONICS Microsystems, LioniX and TNO) aim at helping Life Science company managers to:
· Measure the technological and economical potential of Micro & Nanotechnologies (MNT) and their maturity
· Understand technological stakes and most frequently encountered implementation difficulties by studying best practices of companies active in this field
· Exchange with MEMS and microdevices company managers to evaluate the way to cover to optimize a collaboration based on a common language.

For Jean Christophe Eloy, Managing Director of Yole Développement and Founder of the company in 1998, " We confirmed, in mid-July, during SEMICON event held in San Francisco, the broad diffusion of MEMS component in consumer and automotive applications, and the reciprocal learning phase where MNT and Life Science players are. It is thus right time to have the different worlds to exchange their view and to meet in Paris during a large Life Sciences event as EuroBIO".
Having noticed that there are still vocabulary and mutual understanding issues, the LifeScienceIC report is voluntarily educational and designed for MEMS and semiconductor managers. As symmetry, we dedicate the business convention Innovation Dating "When Micro & Nanotechnologies meet Life Sciences Industry" to pharmaceutical, diagnostic, instrumentation and medical device field players wishing to know the status of biosensors, nanodispensers, lab-on-chips and other microfluidic components.

According to Géraldine Andrieux-Gustin, MNT Project Manager at Yole Développement "We feel as thoroughly playing our facilitating role in creating most strong bridges as possible between these two worlds"

Yole Développement
Based in Lyon, France, Yole Développement is a market research and business development consulting company, facilitating market access for advanced technology industrial projects in the field of micro and nanotechnologies.
Yole Développement is working with large industrial groups, R&D structures, public bodies and investors of the field, to help them in their strategic decisions and their development.
World leader in the analysis of the MEMS markets, Yole Développement and its team of 18 consultants are working in Europe, US and Asia to facilitate the implementation of projects having the potential to meet a realistic and durable market in the field of MEMS, semiconductor components, microfluidics and nanotechnologies.
With the aim to strengthen a team gathering consultants that have complementary competencies, PhD, MBA in microelectronics as well as in strategy, marketing and innovation management, Yole has set up 6 years ago a team dedicated to Life Science applications with suitable profiles adapted to its customer needs.

CONTACTS:

Yole Développement 45 Rue Sainte Geneviève 69006 Lyon, France tel. +33 472 83 01 80 web www.yole.fr

Jean Christophe Eloy, Directeur Général et Fondateur de Yole Développement, eloy@yole.fr Géraldine Andrieux Gustin, Responsable de projet sur les Micro&Nanotechnologies appliquées au domaine des Sciences de la vie, andrieux@yole.fr