Versatility of performance and ease of handling have favoured the use of microorganisms for the production of industrial chemicals for a long time. The chemical diversity of microbial products anticipates their functional diversity. Among the commercial significant applications of microbial metabolites are their use as flavours and fragrances, flavor enhancers, pesticides, pigments, surfactants, polymers for the oil industry, nutritional supplements such vitamins and amino acids, enzymes for use in the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, drugs such as antibiotics and steroid derivates, foreign proteins for therapeutic use such as human interferons, interleukins and growth hormone.
Biotechnológia
"Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or their derivatives for the manufacture or modification of products or processes for specific use."
UN "Convention on Biological Diversity"
Lisbon Agenda
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During the meeting of the European Council in Lisbon (March 2000), the Heads of State or Government launched a "Lisbon Strategy" aimed at making the European Union (EU) the most competitive economy in the world and achieving full employment by 2010.
Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy
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A Policy Priority for the EU
The EU is committed through the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs to a knowledge based and eco-efficient industrial future and consequently to policies conducive to innovation. Industrial biotechnology offers a number of very promising perspectives in form of new products and processes. Equally, new biotechnology based solutions to growing energy and environment policy challenges are most welcome.
Next generations of European citizens will wonder why an integrated use of raw materials, such as biorefinery technology, was not made use of earlier. We need next generation biotechnologies that are based on what we understand today but go much further in efficiency. That alone is a major challenge and an enhanced inter-disciplinary R&D is one of the tools.
More link: Industrial or White Biotechnology A Policy Agenda for Europe