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Investment Areas
Industrial Biotechnology
The use of plants has always extended beyond sustenance, so it is a natural progression for plant biotechnology to go beyond the primary sector as well.
Over the past few years much attention has been focused on the use of agricultural biotechnology to improve industrial processes. Governments around the world have placed industrial biotech on the shortlist of strategic industries and with good cause: industrial biotech processes are cleaner, more environmentally friendly, renewable and increasingly cost competitive.
For plant biotech companies this sector presents an exciting opportunity to maximize the returns on their current technologies by turning plants, microbes and enzymes into fuels, power cells and industrial chemicals in the manufacturing, medical and cosmetic industries.
For smaller players, devoting both the time and capital to pursue alternative applications for flagship technologies is difficult if not impossible. Using its networks and resources, Finistere Partners can monitor the relevant deal flows that will enable plant biotech companies to explore new applications without diverting their resources and attention from core technologies and applications.
