🌱 Great first step for biosolutions in 2025: Commission launches a new Biotech and Biomanufacturing Hub Yesterday, the hub was officially launched by the European Commission with a specific goal in mind: to support companies, particularly SMEs, in bringing innovative biotechnology products to the European market. ⚙️ Today, the path from innovation to market is gruesome, confusing and for many SMEs, borderline impossible. Yet, as the Commission points out, biotechnology is still one of the fastest growing innovative industries in the EU with a strong ability bring sustainability ♻️, resilience 💪 and competitiveness to the European continent 📈. We certainly know this to be true regarding biosolutions. 📜 In 2024, the Commission announced a strategy to boost biotechnology and biomanufacturing in Europe, and this is an important next step. Bringing clarification and support to the biosolutions sector is much needed in a sector currently characterized by red tape and regulatory complexity. In other words: standardization. 💡 “Biotechnology is a key driver of industrial innovation, competitiveness and productivity, while using fewer resources, producing less emissions and generating less waste. The EU is set to create an optimal environment to support its scale-up, ensuring this critical sector thrives for the benefit of our citizens and industries alike. The Hub is a practical tool that will support this” said Stéphane Séjourne, the EVP for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy. 🎉 We welcome the Biotech and Biomanufacturing Hub as the first, tangible step in advancing biosolutions, that will be crucial for Europe’s future. The EU is now actively beginning to build a platform for biosolutions as a key driver of our sustainability, resilience and competitiveness.
Johann Liebeton
1mo
Certainly, the Biotech and Biomanufacturing Hub is very important initiative! This is a great start, but we need to make sure that industrial biotechnology, high-tech bioeconomy, and biosolutions are included in the hub. It's a pity that, to my understanding, these central parts of biotech and biomanufacturing have been overlooked so far.
Svend Petersen
2mo
Excellent start - lots of work ahead to enable EU competitiveness in this crucial field
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