Industrial Biotechnology and Biomass Utilization

March 11, 2018

The bio-based economy can be loosely defined as consisting of those sectors that derive a majority of their market value from biological processes and/or products derived from natural materials, as opposed to products and processes associated with non-renewable resources and/or purely chemical processes. The industrial portion of the bio-economy is somewhat distinct from agricultural, forestry and other sectors, in that raw materials are used to make industrial feedstocks or products, or to drive industrial processes.

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