Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö asetti heinäkuussa 2020 biotalousstrategian päivityshankkeen. Hankkeessa tunnistettiin biotalouden arvonlisän kasvattaminen tärkeäksi painopistealueeksi, jota ei käsitellä kattavasti ja kokonaisvaltaisesti muissa strategioissa. Biotalousstrategia ulottuu vuoteen 2035. Sen visio on "Kestävästi kohti korkeampaa arvonlisää".

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Näkökulma Suomen kestävään kasvuun ja vaikuttavaan innovaatiopolitiikkaan

Noustakseen kestävän kasvun kärkimaaksi Suomen on panostettava osaamisalueisiin, joissa meillä on erityistä huippuosaamista ja kilpailuetua ja joihin panostamalla voimme edistää kestävää kasvua maailmanlaajuisesti.

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HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.

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Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy on tehnyt esiselvitysluontoisen tulevaisuustyön Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriölle ja Lääketeollisuus ry:lle siitä, miten Suomessa voitaisiin lisätä lääketeollisuuden investointeja, luoda maahan uusia työpaikkoja ja kasvattaa lääketeollisuuden tulevaisuuden kilpailukykyä.

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A report commissioned by the Finnish Research Impact Foundation on the current state of business-academia cooperation in Finland attracted wide attention both in the news and social media. Commentary on Twitter highlighted the continuing decline in funding from business and industry for RDI activities in the university sector since 2010 – even though research projects in Finland are funded from multiple sources.

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New dedicated web site:
EU Funding Playbook - Take your business to the next level with EU funding
www.eufundingplaybook.fi

Finland has prepared a strategic programme to promote a circular economy. The aim is to transform the economy into one that is based on the principles of circular economy by 2035. With this programme, the Finnish Government wants to strengthen Finland’s role as a leader in the circular economy. The transition into a circular economy is also a step towards achieving the Government's carbon neutrality target by 2035.

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Raw materials from Finnish agricultural and forestry have potential to provide the global bioeconomy product market with products of significantly higher value, superior quality and serving new emerging needs. A joint white paper compiled by VTT and Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) describes the kind of bioeconomy products and services that can be produced in Finland for the domestic market and export during the next 15 years. The publication was prepared as a background document for Finland's bioeconomy strategy, which is currently being updated.

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Both the Government Programmes of Prime Minister Antti Rinne and Prime Minister Sanna Marin stated that sector-specific low-carbon roadmaps would be developed in cooperation with operators in each sector. The roadmaps’ purpose was to provide a more accurate picture of the scale, costs and conditions of the measures needed to move to a carbon neutral Finland.

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Europe’s industrial biotechnology sector is driving a massive change from petrochemical processes to more sustainable alternatives. Here are the top industrial biotechnology companies in Europe making every industry greener.

Industrial biotechnology draws from biology and the billions of years of evolution behind it to make the production of any chemical compound more efficient and more sustainable. In Europe, the industrial biotech sector is rapidly growing as a response to the environmental impact of current chemical production methods used in all industries.

We dug around and asked experts to find the top biotech companies in Europe pushing for sustainability in all sorts of industries. Here they are, listed in no particular order.

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As the next wave of first-of-a-kind biorefineries ramps-up, the subject of project engineering once again comes to the forefront. Questions about the overall process, why it takes so long and costs so much abound, all capped off by the realization that an EPC solution counted on is not always the reality. An understanding of the entire process is key for those heading down the commercialization path. The graphic below is a concept to commercial operation roadmap, with detailed descriptions that follow.

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Can be purchased on Elsevier

Authors: Reinhard Renneberg Vanya Loroch

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Biotechnology for Beginners, Second Edition, presents the latest information and developments from the field of biotechnology—the applied science of using living organisms and their by-products for commercial development—which has grown and evolved to such an extent over the past few years that increasing numbers of professionals work in areas that are directly impacted by the science. For the first time, this book offers an exciting and colorful overview of biotechnology for professionals and students in a wide array of the life sciences, including genetics, immunology, biochemistry, agronomy, and animal science.

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Ten-Year Forecast of Disruptive Technologies in Industrial Biotechnology to 2028
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Industrial Biotechnology Key Drivers and Trends 2018 - 2028

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Product development in a dairy company aims to meet the consumer’s needs by producing delicious products efficiently. In practice this means that the future needs shall be foreseen by utilizing e.g. development of technology so that the consumer is offered such products, which he or she has not even wished. Reason for this is that the consumer can’t know what the development of technology can enable. This is important to a consumer product company like Valio, which is the largest of its kind in Finland. In European level Valio is far from the largest dairy companies active in North Europe.