Journal
NEW BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 60, Issue -, Pages 72-75Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2020.10.002
Keywords
Bio-based economy; Interdisciplinarity; High-level education; Life sciences; Social sciences
Funding
- University of Milano Bicocca
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The importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in promoting the development of a bio-based economy was emphasized in this paper, along with the need for a new educational framework to facilitate interdisciplinary integration. The results revealed the necessity for high-level education programs to promote society towards bio-based innovation.
To achieve ambitious 21st-century goals and deal with high-level complexity, a bio-based economy is required to cross the boundaries of a single sector and integrate tools, language and knowledge drawn from different disciplines and sub-disciplines. The present contribution highlights how life scientists, social scientists, policymakers and industrial stakeholders should work together to make this technological reversal real and feasible. Importantly, going beyond theoretical and methodological integration, the paper underlines the necessity of developing a new and more flexible educational framework that might facilitate interdisciplinary combination. Specifically, the experience of the summer school Towards a bio-based economy: science, innovation, economics, education organized by the University of Milano Bicocca in collaboration with Chalmers University is described. The results reveal the need for high-level education programs likely to promote and guide society towards bio-based innovation.
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