New knowledge about full-scale production processes will allow a reinvention of biotech production. The combination of experience from various companies and universities will accelerate development and innovation.

 

This is important, not only from an environmental sustainability perspective but also from a commercial and competitive perspective. If industry can fulfil the ambitions of minimising resource consumption and reducing consumption of raw materials radically, the competitive advantages will be considerable and will allow industry to maintain production in areas where production would otherwise have been economically unsustainable.