The Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences is now a full member of the Cluster Industrial Biotechnology (CLIB2021), which headquarters is based in Germany.
The Cluster intends to promote the industrial biotechnology in science and the application of industrial biotechnology in commercial industrial activities. To achieve this purpose, in the field of industrial biotechnology, the Cluster creates a working and communication platform for companies and scientific institutes, and expands cooperation among industry, small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs), science and education. The Cluster also focuses on promotion of excellence in science, education inside and outside universities, and international dialog between research institutes, teaching and education. Presently, QIBEBT will serve as the only Chinese research body within CLIB2021.
QIBEBT will specifically be involved in this partnership to expand the basic science research capacity. QIBEBT has a unique niche in the Cluster in that it has developed a market-oriented value chain from upstream biotechnologies like genomics, metabolomics, proteomics, biocatalysis and biotransformation, to downstream processing.
QIBEBT scientists are excited to participate in this Cluster. “The Institute is committed to the ideals and goals of the CLIB2021," said Dr. LU Xuefeng, the deputy director general of QIBEBT. "We hope to bring our unique faculty, expertise and facility resources to the Cluster to expand our research competences to members and to invite Cluster researchers and postgraduates to QIBEBT for academic exchange and collaboration. We strongly believe that this academia-to-industry partnership is critical to the institute’s mission.”
CLIB2021 is an international open innovation cluste of large companies, SMEs, academic institutes and universities as well as other stakeholders active in biotechnology and the bioeconomy as a whole. The membership comprises an international share of about 30%, and about a hundred members from industry, SMEs, universities and research institutions, investors and founders, and Business Support & Networks.
