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.

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