Christian Patermann

Christian Patermann since January 2004 is Programme Director for “Biotechnology, Agriculture & Foodâ€Â Research at the Research Directorate-General of the European Commission. He is advisor of the State of North-Rhine-Westphalia on the implementation of the knowledge-based BioEconomy. 

How Brexit Will Penalize the Bioeconomy

Media is full of news and analyses on Brexit. All European households are talking about it, whereas politicians, investors, entrepreneurs and foreign citizens living in the United Kingdom (and vic...

Growth, Sustainability and the Bioeconomy. An Uneasy Triangle?

When decision-makers in politics, economics and in our daily life, when concerned citizens or also consumers discuss about Growth and/or Sustainability their arguments normally follow well defined...