May 2008
Position Paper on Industrial Biotechnology is Completed
The German Platform for White Biotechnology, to which BIO Deutschland belongs, completed a position paper on industrial biotechnology at the end of May.
Germany is a worldwide heavyweight in the field of white biotechnology. Expertise, the quality of scientific and technical institutes, and the capacity and performance of manufacturing plants make German the No. 1 in Europe. On a worldwide level, Germany shares the top position with the USA. The position paper describes some representative contributions made by industrial biotechnology to climate protection and sustainability and uses many different examples to illustrate the variety of the fields of application of this technology.