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Building the Bioeconomy with Transparency: A Grant Funding Primer
A Landscape Analysis of US Federal Investments Across the Bioeconomy
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16 min readMar 7, 2022
The US Bioeconomy is on track to contribute more than $4 trillion to the global economy over the course of the next decade
It is certainly a hope-filled assessment about the potential of the bioeconomy to bring positive, international, economic growth. But in turning our attention to the state of our own nation, the question becomes:
What is the United States doing to grow and shape its domestic bioeconomy? And what are some unmet needs that inhibit its sustained and exponential growth?
Individual Agencies and Departments Provide Hubs of Innovation and Development of the Bioeconomy
On January 20th, President Biden directed a whole-of-government review of U.S. national biopreparedness policies. Qualitative research efforts yield an understanding of which federal agencies are actively promoting the flourishing of the bioeconomy.
