OECD Workshop on Biotechnology for Environment in Future: Science, Technology and Policy

Palacongressi, Rimini – Italy (September 16-17, 2010)

Most major industrialised economies have presented significant stimulus packages, many of which contain specific elements focused on innovation-led “green growth”. The recent financial crisis has provided additional incentive to boost innovation-led “green growth”. Environmental applications of biotechnology are general purpose technologies that might underpin such innovation and there is a clear opportunity – and need – now to ensure that policy measures in place are optimal in fostering developments that truly deliver on “green growth”.

The overall goal of the workshop is to understand the framework conditions that govern innovation in environmental biotechnology with a view to identifying and addressing inefficiencies. Workshop participants will include experts from industry, government, academia and international organisations, and non-governmental organisations. The workshop is designed to:Identify and summarise key areas of promise for environmental biotechnology R&D related to possible innovations in applications (including those that are unconfined) through the analysis of case studies;Identify and summarise the main factors of the policy environment in key OECD and non OECD countries across the whole innovation pipeline that could be said to provide incentives or disincentives to carrying out environmental biotechnology R&D;Insofar as possible, making a preliminary assessment of the relative influence of such factors on the development of environmental biotechnology R&D;Identifying a range of issues and options of work that OECD could address better to understand the challenges to improving the efficiency of innovation in this sector.

Více: http://www.ibs2010.org/