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THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN ITALY: DYNAMIC AND ANTI-CYCLICAL ACCELERATOR OF EMPLOYMENT

RICCARDO PALMISANO

TAGLIO DI PO, ROVIGO, ITALIA

SEPTEMBER 30TH,2016

3 CONTENTS

THE ITALIAN BIOTECH INDUSTRY IN FIGURES

R&D ACTIVITIES

THE EMPLOYMENT IMPACT OF INNOVATION

WHITE BIOTECHNOLOGY

WHITE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

THE BIOREFINERY

BIOREFINERIES IN ITALY

BIOECONOMY IN ITALY

GREEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

KEY STRENGHTS OF ITALIAN BIOTECHNOLOGY

4 THE ITALIAN BIOTECH INDUSTRY IN FIGURES

The evolution of the biotech industry in Italy The Italian biotech industry has undergone through an extraordinary growth 2015

Source:

5 THE ITALIAN BIOTECH INDUSTRY IN FIGURES

Analysis by field of application

Analysis by size

6 THE ITALIAN BIOTECH INDUSTRY IN FIGURES

Analysis by geographic distribution

7 R&D ACTIVITIES

R&D investment • Considering total companies, the share

of biotech R&D investment amount to 27% of total R&D investments.

• The share increases to 91% when only considering the dedicated biotech R&D firms, and reaches 96% with regards to the Italian capital dedicated biotech R&D firms.

8 THE EMPLOYMENT IMPACT OF INNOVATION

9 WHITE BIOTECHNOLOGY

White biotech at European level. A new study by EuropaBio Industrial Biotech contributes over €30 billion to the EU economy and around 500,000 jobs. These figures are expected to grow to between 900,000-1.5 million jobs with an economic contribution of up to almost €100 billion by 2030 Source: EuropaBio, new study launched on 27 September

10 WHITE BIOTECH AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

White biotechnology is at a relatively early stage in the chemical industry. But it has the potential as a key driver to the industry’s future. Industrial biotechnology can replace multi-step chemical synthesis with a single step involving low energy and less material input, and even enables the synthesis of products that are not possible chemically. According to OECD, in 2030 biotechnology will have a relevant role in the production of 35% of chemical and industrial products.

11 THE BIOREFINERY

Industrial Biotechnology has the potential to trigger a paradigm shift in the chemical industry through the step-by-step establishment of biorefinery. An increasing number of chemicals and materials, like base chemicals, polymers, industrial catalysts, enzymes and detergents are produced using biotechnology. In 2010, the sales of industrial chemicals created using biotechnology in at least one step of the production process equalled 92 bn euro globally, 228 bn euro in 2015, and this is expected to increase to 515 bn euro in 2020 (on average around 20% per year)

Source. Festel G., Detzel C. and Maas R., Industrial Biotechnology – Markets and industry structure, Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, Volume 18, No. 1, 2012

• Consumption and not production

• Without biofuels and biopharmaceuticals

12 BIOREFINERIES IN ITALY

The biorefineries integrated in the local areas foster sustainable growth, competitiveness and employment in the whole value chain (from farmers to industry)

13 BIOECONOMY IN ITALY

The bioeconomy in Italy is worth 244 billion € with 1.5 million people employed

Source: Research Department Intesa Sanpaolo

14 GREEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

To support the development of the bioeconomy and the creation of new high skilled jobs Italy needs a national strategy (new policies, included a GPP system such as the USDA Biopreferred )

Source: US Department of Agriculture

Source: German Bioeconomy Council

15 KEY STRENGHTS OF ITALIAN BIOTECH

Italy shows an extremely competitive national reality, which has significantly grown over the past years, and still shows the capacity to overcome the cyclic nature which is typical of other industrial sectors.

Indeed, the growing trend of biotechnology in Italy is the result of the recognized excellence of the Italian research as well as the outstanding capacity of our companies to transform innovation into valuable products and enterprise value.

Italy is therefore a country able to search/offer really interesting partnership to foreign firms and researchers.

Excellent quality of research with several dedicated centers

Clusters (such as SPRING, Italian Cluster of Green Chemistry)

Excellent scientific community with strong international interactions

Companies which are at the forefront of innovation

16 THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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