Industrial biotechnology represents one of the most innovating and labour-productive industries with an estimated stable economic growth, thus giving space for improvement of the existing and setting up new value chains. In addition, biotechnology has clear environmental advantages over the chemical industry. Still, biotechnology’s environmental contribution is sometimes valued with controversy and societal aspects are frequently ignored. Environmental, economic and societal sustainability of various bioprocesses becomes increasingly important due to the growing understanding about complex and interlinked consequences of different human activities. Neglecting the sustainability issues in the development process of novel solutions may lead to sub-optimal biotechnological production, causing adverse environmental and societal problems proportional to the production volumes.

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用于工业生物技术可持续性优化的可持续代谢工程


工业生物技术是最具创新性和劳动生产率的行业之一，预计经济增长稳定，从而为改进现有价值链和建立新的价值链提供了空间。此外，生物技术比化学工业具有明显的环境优势。尽管如此，生物技术对环境的贡献有时受到争议，而社会方面的影响常常被忽视。由于人们对不同人类活动复杂且相互关联的后果的认识不断加深，各种生物过程的环境、经济和社会可持续性变得越来越重要。在新解决方案的开发过程中忽视可持续性问题可能会导致生物技术生产不理想，从而造成与产量成比例的不利环境和社会问题。