TRENDS IN INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

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TRENDS IN INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

• Dr Dusty Gardiner
• CSIR Bio/Chemtek

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TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

• Industrial Biotech poor relative!
• Focus on Health Care and Agriculture
• Quiet Revolution in Industrial/ Environmental
  Biotech gathering momentum

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KEY DRIVERS ENVIRONMENTAL

• Cleaner processes
• Legislation
• Enforcement?
• Triple bottom line multinationals proactive

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KEY DRIVERS COST

• Process efficiency
• Globalisation Competition
• (India and China)
• Innovation

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KEY DRIVERS RENEWABLE RAW MATERIALS

• Sustainable Development
• Fossil fuel replacement

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KEY DRIVERS TECHNOLOGY

• New opportunities previously not possible
• Industrial Biotech at foot of S-curve
• Technologies developed on the back of
  Health/Agricultural investment focus

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NEW INDUSTRIAL BIOTECH EXAMPLES

• Genentech/Du Pont - 1,3 propanediol
• Dow/Cargill - polylactides
• Diversa - phytase
• Metabolix - PHAs

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SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION PRIVATE SECTOR

• Withdrawal of big industry
• Established biotech industry small
• Start up activity including finance

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SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION GOVERNMENT

• Proactive policy/strategy approach
• White Paper on Science and Technology
• National Biotechnology Strategy
• National RD Strategy
• Integrated Manufacturing Strategy

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SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION GOVERNMENT (cont.)

• Focus
• economic growth and wealth creation
• improved quality of life for all South Africans

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SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION GOVERNMENT (cont.)

• Funding
• NRF Research Grants
• Innovation Fund
• BRICs
• Science Council funding
• THRIP, SPII, PII
• GODISA Incubator Programme

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SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION GOVERNMENT (cont.)

• Commercialisation
• GODISA Incubator Programme
• IDC
• National Empowerment Fund
• Khula Enterprise Finance
• Public/Private Partnership mechanisms

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SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION RD CAPACITY

• Relatively established
• Fragmented improving
• Commercialisation ability?
• Skills availability
• Innovation?

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WAY FORWARD

• Policy/Strategy documents
• Economic growth/wealth
• Quality of life
• Vertical or horizontal integration
• More focus on Innovation Cycle
• New partnerships local/international innovation
  networks
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