Title
Sectoral innovation foresight. Biotechnology sector. Final Reeport. Task 2
Author
van der Valk, T.
Gijsbers, G.W.
Meis, M.
Publication year
2010
Abstract
Biotechnology has evolved from a single set of technologies in the mid 1970s (e.g. recombinant DNA technology) into the full grown economic activity of today. The set of technologies that constitute the field of biotechnology thus find their applications in different sectors, most notably in agriculture and food (green biotechnology), pharmaceuticals (red biotechnology), chemicals (white biotechnology) and rather recently “blue biotechnology” that deals with marine and aquatic applications of biotechnology but still represents a comparatively small section. So far, firms active in medical biotechnology, and pharmaceutical firms in general have relied heavily on a limited number of products for profit generation: the so-called block busters. Rapid advances worldwide are seen in the adoption of agricultural biotechnology applications (genetically modified crops), especially in the Americas and Asia1, but almost absent in Europe. Innovations in industrial biotechnology focus on biofuels, the production of enzymes, etc
Subject
Innovation
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TNO identifier
539300
Publisher
European Commission, Brussels
Bibliographical note
Consortium Europe Innova Sectoral Innovation Watch SIW coordination: Carlos Montlavo en Annelieke van der Giessen
Document type
report