Abstract
Last month’s gathering of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization’s World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology, held in San Diego, featured six tracks of diverse talks and panel discussions. But the hallways were nearly empty. The high-traffic area, it turned out, was downstairs in a warren of little cubicles that BIO helpfully set aside for one-on-one partnering meetings. Executives from biobased chemical companies spent most of their time in conversation there, emerging occasionally to discuss how they plan to compete against products made from low-priced oil and natural gas. No one, it seems, wants to go it alone in the biobased chemical industry. At the meeting, company leaders were looking not just for financial support or purchase agreements but for ideas and expertise to hammer down costs. At times, it felt like the industry was going back, if not to the drawing board, then certainly back to basics. “At BIO, we’re looking to
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