Project

Bringing innovative industrial biotechnology research to the market

Acronym

IB2Market

Code

41W05613

Duration

01 December 2013 → 31 May 2016

Funding

European funding: framework programme

Promotor

Wim Soetaert

Research disciplines

Social sciences
- Agricultural and natural resource economics, environmental and ecological economics
Engineering and technology
- Biocatalysis and enzyme technology
- Bioprocessing, bioproduction and bioproducts
- Fermentation
- Industrial microbiology
- Industrial molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins
- Industrial biotechnology not elsewhere classified

Keywords

industrial biotechnology

Project description

IB2MARKET

Bringing innovative industrial biotechnology research to the market

EC FP7-KBBE-2013-7-single-stage

GA 613937

Prof. Wim Soetaert

IB2Market aims to bring industrial biotechnology from the research lab to the market and to solve the bottle-necks in industrialisation. Specifically, the project targets the development and scale-up of new industrial biotechnology processes that have recently been developed to produce the following compounds:

1. Biosurfactants,

2. Specialty carbohydrates,