Prospects of bioeconomy in the Russian Federation

Prof.Vladimir Popov A.N.Bach Institute of Biochemistry RAS

National Technology Platform Bioindustry and Bioresources - BioTech2030

R&D as national priority

n  R&D as national priority n  Current spending 1.16 % GDP n  Target by 2015 1.8 % GDP n  Target by 2030 3 % GDP

n  Funding of State scientific funds (RFBR, RFHR) n  Target by 2018 25 BRUB

n  Share of Russian publications cited by WEB of Science n  Current (2010) 2.08 % n  Target by 2015 2.44 % n  Target by 2020 3 %

n  Start of wide use of biotechnologies, that will change not only the traditional agrarian sector, but will become a base for high-technology methods for diagnostics, therapy and prophylactics of diseases and development of bioinformatics

n  10 out of 34 Critical Technologies of Russia refer to biotechnologies

n  Technology platforms … will become an important instrument for formulating national priorities of the technological development

n  Technology platforms will concentrate on: n  … biotechnologies including industrial

biotechnologies and bioenergy, biomedicine and biopharmaceuticals, agrobio- and food biotechnologies

Strategy of innovative development of the Russian Federation to 2020. Innovative Russia – 2020 Endorsed by the Russian Government 08.12.2011 N 2227-р

Recent Bioeconomy initiatives

Main competitive advantages of Russia

n  Oil and gas n  Mineral resources n  Forestation, 1180 mln.ha

n  20 % of world’s forest resources n  50 % of coniferous forests

n  Land (fertile, arable) n  10% of arable land, 195 mln.ha n  60% of most productive world black soils are

located in Russia and Ukraine n  About 20 mln.hectars of arable land are

temperately out of agricultural production n  Grain harvest ~100 mln.t, projected surplus

up to 30 mln.t n  Water

n  water resources, 30,000 m3 per capita n  irrigated land, 86,000 m2 per capita

n  BIOMASS

Co-ordinated program of biotechnology development in the Russian Federation to 2020

Governmental commission on high-tech and innovations requested on 01.04.2011 to draft the

Co-ordinated Program of Biotechnology Development in the Russian Federation to 2020

(BIO-2020) that was signed on 24.04.12

BIO-2020 – main features

n  Horizon planning - to 2020 n  Areas covered:

n  Biopharmaceuticals & Biomedicine n  Extension of already existing Pharma2020 program

n  Industrial biotechnology n  Bioenergy n  Agrobio n  Forest biotechnology n  Marine biotechnology and aquaculture

n  The Program calls for n  drafting >30 reports to the Government n  important changes in legislation and standards

Main goals

n  To initiate bioeconomy development in Russia n  To support new economy segments

associated with industrial biotechnology n  To stimulate and develop already existing

priority market segments for biotech products - agrobio, food The strategic goal is the level of bioeconomy ~ 1 % of GDP by 2020, and ~3 % of GDP by 2030

Agenda

n  Translate main ideas of BIO2020 into Federal and regional programs n  Allocate resources n  Draft operative plans and road-maps

n  Draft necessary legislation and technical requirements

n  Promote 1-2 biotech regional bio-clusters

Technology platforms as an instrument to develop bioeconomy

Siberian State Medical University

Medicine of the Future

Lomonosov Moscow State University

& Russian Technologies

State Corporation

BioTech2030

Kurchatov Institute

Bioenergy

Technology Platforms in Biotechnology

Selected priority areas

n  Biorefineries (grain, lignocellulose, algae) n  Platform chemicals n  Bioplastics and biomaterials n  Biocatalysis n  Transgenic plants and animals n  Valorization of waste n  Pulp and paper n  Functional foods and feeds

Way forward

n  Bioeconomy should become a national priority n  Implementation of the Bio-2020 program

n  TPs should be properly integrated in the state decision making mechanism at all levels: federal, regional, sectorial/ministerial n  Support of SRA formulated by TPs in the frame of federal and regional

programs

n  Stimulation of biotech businesses, creation of markets n  State procurement as an instrument to develop markets for biotech

products n  Stimulate businesses introducing biotech products, destimulate

outdated technologies n  Technical regulation, standardization

n  Support of regional biocluster development n  Tatarstan, Chuvash, Omsk, Puschino, Tambov, Belgorod, etc.

The  future  is  green!    

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