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How can regions pool expertise, stakeholders and infrastructure to effectively advance the industrial bioeconomy? The focus is on success factors such as industry engagement, regional specialisation, coordination and pilot schemes – as well as challenges relating to scaling up, financing and sustainability.

Why funding applications can fail despite strong technology – and what really matters when it comes to suitability, level of innovation, commercialisation, the consortium and language. This article sets out five practical strategies for more compelling funding proposals.

Europe wants to enable more innovative companies to grow – ideally within Europe. The new Scaleup Europe Fund is a multi-billion funding instrument designed to achieve this, including for biotechnology companies.

A technology may work in the laboratory – the crucial question is whether it can also be made economically viable on a larger scale. The ‘Physics for Food’ project illustrates this approach using the example of cold plasma in food preservation and highlights the importance of scaling up, technology transfer and close collaboration between research and industry.

How does a bio-based material concept developed through research and development actually make its way into industrial application? The GrasToPlast project shows that this requires far more than just a working technology.

From skills gaps to upskilling: A one-pager from the TransBIB skills and training needs analysis highlights the skills that specialists and managers in the automotive, plastics and lightweight construction/construction sectors need for the bioeconomic transformation – and which learning formats are effective.