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Current high-visibility industrial biotechnology products (Future Prospects for Industrial Biotechnology)
It has often been said that one of the reasons why investors are reluctant to invest in industrial biotechnology is the lack of tangible products and "blockbusters". This chapter describes some of the recent products that are emerging from industrial biotechnology. One of these has been predicted to be the first industrial biotechnology blockbuster in terms of sales. As the products become more visible, the investor climate should improve. It is worth noting that many of the products are components of everyday products, such as garments and tyres. Although consumers may not realise it, they purchase industrial biotechnology products in, for example, shirts which are a blend of cotton and bio-based textiles, and tyres containing bio-isoprene. Better recognition could greatly aid the market diffusion of bio-based products.

Country Reports

- Energy Investments and Technology Transfer Across Emerging Economies: The Case of Brazil and China, 2015
- Executive summary (Boosting Malaysia's National Intellectual Property System for Innovation), 2015
- Executive summary (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Australia), 2015
- Canadian agricultural policy: Structural change, sustainability and innovation (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Canada), 2015
- The Canadian Agricultural Innovation System (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Canada), 2015
Thematic Reports

- Environmental Policy and Technological Innovation in Shipbuilding, 2016
- Government budget allocations for R&D (Frascati Manual 2015: Guidelines for Collecting and Reporting Data on Research and Experimental Development), 2015
- Applying the framework for innovation (The Innovation Imperative: Contributing to Productivity, Growth and Well-Being), 2015
- Knowledge creation, diffusion and commercialisation (The Innovation Imperative: Contributing to Productivity, Growth and Well-Being), 2015
- Technology Collaboration Programmes: Highlights and outcomes, 2016
What Countries are Doing
Published by OECD in 2011