Daniela Ribezzo, Global Business Development Manager, attended the Italian Forum on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioeconomy (IFIB) held in Vicenza yesterday.

IFIB2016 is a workshop organized by Assobiotec – the Italian Association for the development of biotechnology – together with Innovhub-SSI, and CUOA – aimed at making a survey of research projects in the industrial biotechnology field with the goal to strengthen the network in the Euro-Mediterranean area and to promote industry-university partnerships.

The forum dealt with main topics as bioeconomy and circular economy, energy and biorefineries, bio-based industries, life-sciences, agro-food and marine biotechnology.

In details Daniela illustrated the role of the levulinic acid and its potentiality as a versatile building block for chemicals and materials.