Prospecting Bioscience for the Future of Non-Food Uses of Crops

A report by Andrew McMeekin, Mark Harvey, Steven Glynn, Ian Miles and Philip Vergragt.

This report was commissioned by DTI and DEFRA, for the Government Industry Forum on Non-Food Uses of Crops and carried out by IOIR between September 2003 and January 2004. The material in this report has been developed through a desk-based study, an accompanying programme of telephone interviews and a workshop, held in November 2003, involving various participants who are engaged with this subject (either in industry or in scientific research).

The report considers the potential contributions of bioscience to non-food uses of crops and its principle objectives are to assist in:

developing enhanced understanding amongst policy, academic and industry communities about these contributions.
assessing their implications for future UK competitiveness and global sustainable development.

This study aims to increase understanding of the additional potential arising from bioscience applications to NFCs, drawing on current state of the art knowledge of the science and technology, and of the opportunities emerging from them. The key question is:

What difference can bioscience make – and how?

[Report - 500Kb pdf format]

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