Glycoscience is an interdisciplinary field, which leads to different industrial applications derived from physicochemical and/or biological properties of carbohydrates. This study aims to evaluate how glycoscience may act as a driving force to make research innovative and sustainable in industrial and/or commercial areas. To this end, we rationalized the two main properties of carbohydrate molecules into three main value chains. The regional biomass (sugar, starch, wood) value-chain exploits the physicochemical properties of carbohydrates; the glycomics explores the biological functions of carbohydrates and the non-regional biomass (microbial, pectin, chitin) value-chain exploits the two properties. Each value-chain harbors one or more niches prone to or at an emerging stage of development, and all these niches share a techno-scientific push approach aimed at developing high value-added products with new functionalities, new bioactive glycans, and new enabling technologies that will lead to new applications and possible novel therapies and diagnostics tools.

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糖科学研究引发的创新潜力。

糖科学是一个跨学科领域，其导致了源自碳水化合物的物理化学和/或生物学特性的不同工业应用。这项研究旨在评估糖科学如何作为驱动力，使研究在工业和/或商业领域具有创新性和可持续性。为此，我们将碳水化合物分子的两个主要特性合理化为三个主要价值链。区域生物质（糖，淀粉，木材）价值链利用了碳水化合物的理化特性。糖组学探索碳水化合物的生物学功能，而非区域性生物质（微生物，果胶，甲壳质）价值链则发挥了这两个特性。每个价值链都包含一个或多个倾向于或处于新兴发展阶段的壁,，