The BIO-TIC pro­ject: a European suc­cess story in the area of indus­tri­al biotechnology

The BIO-TIC web­site gath­ers the latest news on indus­tri­al bio­tech­no­logy from all value chain part­ners and links with past EU-fun­ded pro­jects such as the BIO­CHEM and Star-COLIBRI pro­ject. With a long list of ongo­ing events in Europe and else­where, BIO-TIC aims to bring togeth­er experts from all rel­ev­ant value chain groups to accel­er­ate mar­ket uptake of biobased products. If you want to get involved with BIO-TIC, you can join the Linked­In Group, called Indus­tri­al Biotech for Europe, a vir­tu­al dis­cus­sion for­um to debate BIO-TIC issues. BIO-TIC wants to take into account vis­ions and interests from all rel­ev­ant stake­hold­ers to form a coher­ent plan so the group is open to any­one who is inter­ested in the trans­form­at­ive poten­tial of indus­tri­al bio­tech­no­logy. Fun­ded by the European Com­mis­sion, BIO-TIC is a three-year pro­ject which aims to estab­lish an over­view of the bar­ri­ers to biotech innov­a­tion and design a clear action plan to over­come them. Launched in Septem­ber 2012 by 11 part­ners, BIO-TIC is centered on a sol­id roadmap­ping exer­cise that will involve all value chain part­ners, from broad industry to aca­demia, know­ledge organ­isa­tions, gov­ern­ments and civil soci­ety. For more inform­a­tion about the pro­ject con­tact Jas­mi­ina Laur­maa at j.​laurmaa@​europabio.​org.