Links > i-G Peninsula supports KT for 'Blue' Biotechnology

1  Bioscience for Business
Launched in February 2006, Bioscience for Business is a Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) that brings together bioscientists from the white, green and blue bioscience sectors. These are industrial biotechnology, plant & crop science and marine & freshwater aquatic sciences so uniquely combining the cross-sector interactions that enable different disciplines to network for the benefit of the UK. Working in partnership with the National Non-Food Crops Centre, Bioscience for Business brings together members covering a wide range of interests from researchers to end users of the technologies. Reporting to the Technology Strategy Board, the KTNs are designed to improve the UK’s innovation performance by increasing the breadth and depth of the knowledge transfer of technology into UK-based businesses and by accelerating the rate at which this process occurs.

2  Blue Microbe
The UK's Knowledge Transfer network for exploiting marine and freshwater microbial diversity research for biotechnology.

3  CoEBio3
The CoEBio3 is the UK's new organization designed to provide a world-class scientific environment in which the necessary research and development can be carried out to create new biocatalyst-based processes to meet the changing needs of industry in the next 10-20 years. CoEBio3 will train graduate and postdoctoral scientists such that they possess the necessary combination of skills in chemistry, biology and engineering needed to support these changes. Furthermore we have a dedicated pilot biomanufacturing facility that will be available to both academic and industrial groups. We intend to supply the research, training and development services to enable the application of white biotechnology to produce chemical entities with an applied "genes to kilos" philosophy.

4  Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
A Study into the prospects for marine biotechnology development in the United Kingdom