Vision 2025

The stakeholders’ Vision for industrial or white biotechnology in 2025 is one where:

• An increasing number of chemicals and materials will be produced using biotechnology in one of its processing steps. Biotechnological processes are used for producing chemicals and materials, otherwise not accessible by conventional means, or existing products in a more efficient way.
  
  
• Biotechnology allows for an increasing eco-efficient use of renewable resources as raw materials for the industry
  
  
• Industrial biotechnology will enable a range of industries to manufacture products in an economically and environmentally sustainable way.
  
  
• Biomass derived energy, based on biotechnology, is expected to cover an increasing amount of our energy consumption.
  
  
• Rural bio-refineries will replace port-based oil refineries where it is economically feasible.
  
  
• European industry will be innovative and competitive, with sustained cooperation and support between the research community, industry, agriculture and civil society.
  
  
• Green biotechnology could make a substantial contribution in the efficient production of raw materials.
  

The action plan necessary to achieve this vision would:

• Develop a strategic research agenda and road map.
  
  
• Remove technical, economic, regulatory and implementation barriers.
  
  
• Involve the whole of society in decision making via stakeholder dialogue.