Bio-based businesses in Scotland will have access to a vital new piece of infrastructure helping them to develop products at scale, thanks to an £847,000 investment announced by the Scottish Government’s Minister for Small Business, Innovation, Tourism and Trade, Mr Richard Lochhead.
The funding, awarded to the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) through Scottish Enterprise, will support the purchase and installation of a 300-litre fermenter to be hosted at FlexBio – the innovation centre’s scale-up facility based at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The new equipment at FlexBio will address a key missing component in Scotland’s innovation infrastructure…
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