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Bijlage 2 bij de Integrale Nota Biotechnologie Dossier, Samengesteld in opdracht van het Ministerie van Economische Zaken
Sectoral Innovatiohn Performance in the Biotechnology Sector. Final Report. Task 1
In general the biotechnology sector can be qualified as a science driven and high tech sector. This applies for both the group of biotech start-ups that are present in each of the three sub-sectors (red biotech: health/pharma, green biotech: agrifood and white biotech: chemicals) as for the red biotech as a whole as the intensity of research and development (R&D) of the pharmaceutical industry is far above that of the agrifood or chemical industry. All three biotech sectors are globally oriented: the pharma sector is more or less internationally structured and this applies also for the chemical industry. The agri- and food parts still have a rather strong focus on Europe