Ludger Wess
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Andreas Pinkwart
Ludger Wess | | 4 min read
Andreas Pinkwart A liberal economist with a keen interest in biotechnology, Germany's sole Minister for Innovation has deep pockets and ambitious goals for his state . By Ludger Wess An energetic forty-eight year-old man with short, hedgehog-like hair and a firm handshake, Andreas Pinkwart is a banker and economist by background but he has a soft spot for science. In fact, as a schoolboy, he finished second in the "Jugend forscht" chemistry competitio

Devising a New Dortmund
Ludger Wess | | 6 min read
Devising a New Dortmund Within a decade, the city of Dortmund — best known for its beer and its "Borussia" soccer team — has been reinvented as a biotech hotspot. By Ludger Wess Zeche Zollern Tower type headgear of a Dortmund coalmine. The city of Dortmund once proudly described itself as the "triad of coal, steel, and beer." Those days are gone forever. "The last coal mine was closed in 1987, steel production ceased in 2001 af

Pride and Pioneers
Ludger Wess | | 7 min read
Pride and pioneers NRW's behemoth chemical companies generate about one third of the German chemical industry's global sales. For biotechnology, this dominance can be both a blessing and a curse. By Ludger Wess The production of 200 liter batches of resin used in Qiagen's spin columns for the isolation of nucleic acids. © Juergen Bindrim For more than a century, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has been the heartland o

Walk on the white side
Ludger Wess | | 8 min read
Walk on the white side A mix of partners providing many inputs helps white biotech deliver multiple benefits By Ludger Wess Students in lab at the Technical University of Dortmund. © TU Dortmund University The chemical industry is facing a lot of problems: raw materials are getting more expensive and scarce, energy costs are rising, and there is increasing pressure from consumers and politicians to avoid toxic intermediates and w
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