From bugs to business: Unlocking the Bioeconomy in Europe
This event is the final conference of the BIO-TIC project, a Commission-funded Coordination and Support Action dedicated to overcoming challenges to industrial biotechnology in Europe. Despite its potential to help tackle some of todays global societal challenges such as climate change, dwindling fossil fuel resources and the need to switch to more sustainable and resource-efficient industrial processes, many hurdles to industrial biotechnology persist. These include:
- little availability and access to sustainable and competitively priced biomass
- limited access to public funding
- lack of incentives and policy drivers for industrial biotechnology products
- technological barriers including low yields and high scale up costs
- poor public awareness of products derived from industrial biotechnology processes and their associated advantages
From Bugs to Business will adress these hurdles with the launch of the BIO-TIC roadmap on how to drive the European industrial biotechnology sector. To learn more about BIO-TIC ahead of the conference, go to www.industrialbiotech-europe.eu
