The UK government is boosting its efforts to build an integrated industrial biotech sector, announcing a £12 million investment in demonstrator facilities. This will be matched by £2.5 million of grant money to support companies using the demonstrator to develop and prove new processes.
The facility will build on the capabilities of the Centre for Process Innovation, which also houses the National Industrial Biotechnology Facility, on Tesside in north east England.
This funding is part of the government’s response to the independent industry report “IB 2025: Maximising UK Opportunities from Industrial Biotechnology in a Low Carbon Economy” published in May.
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