Objectives of a bioresource corporation, now Ekvitec
AB.
- To serve the altruistic aims of the BIOFOCUS Foundation by the creation
of value through the development of new, judiciously selected, private enterprises
in developing countries.
- To optimize the sustainable utilization of untapped agricultural, mineral,
and human resources by providing incentives for indigenous creativity in developing
countries.
- To practice an "everybody-win" strategy in the process of linking
the entrepreneurial tradition and biotechnologies that are available in industrialized
countries with the resources and potential business opportunities that currently
exist in developing countries.
- To provide venture capital and to participate in holding companies and technology
transfer bodies set up to use biotechnology as a tool for sustaining the integrity
of the global environment.
- To make full use of the expertise and worldwide contacts of the BIOFOCUS
Foundation in the search both for investment opportunities and for synergistic
liaison with various international and local organizations active in the development
field.