Foreword -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Scope and drivers for industrial biotechnology -- Emerging synthetic enabling technologies -- Trends in industry and products -- Current high-visibility industrial biotechnology products -- Business organisation and finance in industrial...

Industrial biotechnology has come of age: after decades spent in the shadow of two better-known fields, health and agro-food biotechnology, it has emerged into a world where environmental sustainability has become a global concern. However, sustainability and "clean" industrial processes will...

The field of industrial biotechnology has moved rapidly in recent years as a combined result of international political desire, especially in the case of biofuels, and unprecedented progress in molecular biology research that has supplied the enabling technologies. Different geographical regions...