Biotechnology can enable circular manufacturing at scale and low cost, as you’ll hear from Jano Costard in this fascinating DLD Circular talk.
Costard is head of the Challenge Program at Germany’s federal agency for disruptive innovation (SprinD).
“We need to get mainstream, and we need to find a solution that makes circular manufacturing the default for manufacturing in this century”, he says.
To this effect, SprinD will fund up to eight companies with about 40 million euros in its Circular Biomanufacturing challenge alone.
“Existing biomanufacturing technologies exhibit high costs and low yields”, Costard says, “making them unsuitable for mass production. We need to rethink value creation holistically in the sense of a bio-based economy.”
