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How to set up collaborations between academia and industrial biotech companies

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To the Editor:

Much has been written about academic-industry collaborations in the biopharmaceutical sector; however, relatively little has been published in your pages concerning such interactions in the industrial biotech sector. In this Correspondence, we synthesize our collective experiences to discuss the possibilities and challenges that come with academic-industry collaborations in metabolic and biochemical engineering.

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  1. Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Jack T Pronk

  2. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

    Sang Yup Lee

  3. Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Hørsholm, Denmark

    Sang Yup Lee, Bernhard Palsson, Mathias Uhlen & Jens Nielsen

  4. Genomatica, San Diego, California, USA

    Jeff Lievense

  5. BP, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    John Pierce

  6. Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

    Bernhard Palsson

  7. Science for Life Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Mathias Uhlen

  8. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Jens Nielsen

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Pronk, J., Lee, S., Lievense, J. et al. How to set up collaborations between academia and industrial biotech companies. Nat Biotechnol 33, 237–240 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3171

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