Novel approaches to a sustainable industrial «white» biotechnology

 

Cluster Competition BioIndustry 2021 - by the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) - Strategic Partnership between Economy and Science - Winner is BIOCATALYSIS2021

In the course of their evolution, microorganisms have acquired a number of highly interesting and useful characteristics. If these are used in industrial applications, in the nutrition or chemicals industries for example, it is termed ‘industrial biotechnology’.

In order to further promote this business activity, the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) initiated the cluster competition BioIndustrie 2021 in the autumn of 2006. The ultimate aim is to boost the strategic partnership between economy and science in general.

With this in mind, funding totalling 60 million euros has been put to one side for the coming five years. With additional commitment from participating companies, R&D projects should receive funding topping 150 million euros. The defining goal of the BioIndustry 2021 competition is to bring together the necessary institutions and disciplines, e.g. life sciences, chemistry, physics, computer science as well as engineering sciences (e.g. process engineering, machine and equipment construction, process and cybernetics, analytics), and to promptly and efficiently organise them into interdisciplinary project teams. Strategic clusters are hoped to emerge out of the framework of the competition, which will merge all the involved parties into a network architecture.

This network will include research establishments and companies, venture capital financers and banks, which will work together to define core competencies, forms of financing, to develop strategies for future markets and to implement suitable projects in the common interest. As part of the funding initiative, these self-organising clusters will themselves take part in a broader competition, which is intended to strengthen the location of Germany for industrial biotechnology.

The winners are:

Each receiving 20 million Euros:

• BIOCATALYSIS2021 - Sustainable Biocatalysis Opening New Paths - (Coordinator: TuTech Innovation GmbH, Hamburg)
• CLIB 2021 - Cluster Industrial Biotechnology - (Coordinator: Degussa GmbH, Creavis Technologies & Innovation, Marl)

Funded with 10 million Euros:

• Biopolymers/Biomaterials, Coordinator: BIOPRO Baden-Würtemberg GmbH, Stuttgart

Each receiving 5 million Euros:

• Industrial processes with biogene building blocks und performance proteins (Coordinator: BioM Biotech Cluster Development GmbH, Martinsried)
• Integrated BioIndustry: Cluster concept development towards a strategy for the application of white biotechnology in selected industries (Coordinator: Frankfurt Bio Tech Alliance eV., Frankfurt am Main).

In the Web: BMBF Press Release - June 27, 2007 -

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