The White House released a national Bioeconomy Blueprint, a comprehensive approach to harnessing innovations in biological research to address national challenges in health, food, energy, and the environment. In coordination with the Blueprint’s release, Federal officials also announced a number of new commitments to help the Nation achieve the Blueprint’s goals. The Bioeconomy Blueprint will guide Federal agencies — in coordination with one another and in partnership with private-sector entities — to enhance economic growth and job creation, improve the health of all Americans, and move toward a clean-energy future through scientific discovery and technological innovation. The biological sciences have demonstrated enormous advances in recent years. As a result, economic activity fueled by research and innovation in those fields — the “bioeconomy” — is also growing rapidly, providing an expanding array of job opportunities in both rural and urban environments. In addition to the societal benefits these advances are bringing in health, medicine, and agriculture, and through the development of clean energy sources, researchers are generating a growing spectrum of bio-based products for use in industrial and chemical processes, helping to reduce reliance on petroleum-based products. Source & Copyright: Press Release April 26, 2012 — Office of Science and Technology Policy Executive Office of the President — www.whitehouse.gov/../bioeconomy_press_release_..pdf Quelle: BioIndustrie2021