Then and Now: 120 Bioeconomy Pioneers look at yesterday, today, inspirations and challenges

Gerard Goma

Then: In 2007 i was manager ofRanD and Innovation of the land Midi Pyrénées for french  state(not land goverment) Formely i was manager of e lab of industrial Microbiology and Enzymology  wich give now LISBP and TWB -Toulouse White biotech- Our trip were generic  microbiology and enzymology for industries(rainbow) but the white biotech were predominant and biofuels jet also with Airbus.

Now: Now 74 old I work as emeritus professor. Real work were sopped last year (strong health problems) and now I follow items of interest I have a reflexion on scientific fashions and retroinnovation and read every “biofuel digest” which gives me an excellent panorama and a good feeling “quo vdis” bioindustry and bioeconomy

Inspirations: Biofuel digest and the European community have a good v iew .

Challenges:  In practice  biomass is not considered seriously The inculture of ecologits -some of them “call girls ” of the media-  killed the green hope of biomass? Prehaps  biomass need Politics Advanced bioeconomy need a synergy between Politicals and  Financial managers for develloping news infrastructures of biomass recovering and storage at least.