More products, more profit, less environmental impact
Industry is faced with a huge challenge: How to ensure economic growth in an increasingly competitive global market, while at the same time minimising the impact of industrial production on our environment.
In other words: How to produce more with less? More products, more innovation, more quality and more profits versus less raw materials, less waste, less energy use and less emission.
By focusing on, for example, how micro-organisms can be engineered to provide new production routes or which genes ensure resistance against plagues in potato, several NGI Genomics Centres apply genomics to meet the challenges described above.