Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is to set up a biotechnology laboratory in Chile, its first research centre in South America, following the signing of an agreement with the Chilean Ministry of Economic Affairs.Alfred Gossner, chief financial officer of Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest applied research organisation, said, “The new Fraunhofer Centre for Systems Biotechnology in Chile will create links and bring forth innovations for new markets; links between Germany and Chile, between scientific disciplines, between pure research and the demands of private enterprises.”
Gossner signed the bilateral agreement with Juan Andrés Fontaine, the Chilean minister for commercial affairs, in the presence of the Chilean President Sebastián Piñera and Chancellor Angela Merkel, in Berlin.
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