[Music] well by training I'm a biological chemist and then I'm at a university career academic career my scientific background is in enzyme catalysis immobilized enzymes and and I'm molecular design I have had a group of 80 people working in that field and recently in fact I started this technology transfer structure twb which is gathering 30 companies big companies medium-sized and very small startup companies investors and the public bodies I think that one of the key target of delivery B is to create value and to create jobs and from the beginning we have created 250 jobs we have raised sign an amount of 30 million contracts and in six years and we have helped startup companies to raise 100 million euros so I think that it's very important you know well to to use the results to valorize the results of science of scientific research and to turn it into applications because this is very important from the socio-economic outlet - two issues the first one is that biotechnology Bayou living systems technology application is from the early beginning of human age you know since the very beginning humans have been using totally empirically living systems to transform natural goods plants animals into food feed and drinks you know since mr. Pattaya people are producing beer you know one way process is that people stop to be captures and became agriculture farmers just to provide enough cells to make beer so this is working very well then appeared more rational biotechnology with the invention of the microscope with microbiology and this is a very important industry producing antibiotics like penicillin producing enzymes producing organic acids producing amino acids in the range of millions of tonnes so that's a real large-scale industry in them in the 70s appeared genetic engineering the possibility to transfer information genetic information from one living system to another one and this opens a lot a lot of opportunities and now we are reaching the field of synthetic biology which means frankly nothing just that we have more efficient tools to develop applications more efficient tools that means that we can scream very efficiently new catalytic proteins enzymes for application we can engineer living organisms to turn such bacteria yeast fungi into plant cells you know they are producing a compound from renewable raw materials that's very important to use a renewable raw materials and so it's more an evolution that a real revolution does the first issue the same second issue is that when you invent the mobile phone you create a new market and everybody can see this new market you know young people now my grand daughter she doesn't believe that you can take a picture with something else than a telephone for Earth with white air it's crazy but so the difference with biotechnology is that biotechnology applies to already existing domains for example elf elf the development of monoclonal antibodies to fight cancer when you have a new drag it's a new drug it's not new by technology food when people are using enzymes to develop new new food ingredients it's not biotechnology it's a new food ingredient and and so on in chemistry if you develop the production of acrylamide for example it's not a new field it's not biotechnology is just a new process so byte energy very scarcely appears by itself it appears through the applications in existing domains and that's the key difference with mobile phones [Music]