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published: 24.04.2025

MERICS Report: Lab leader, market ascender: China's rise in biotechnology

In China, biotechnology is promoted as a leading technology of the "new-quality productive forces". The country’s innovation capabilities have surpassed Europe in most biotech areas, and the US in some, find MERICS experts Alexander Brown and Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau in their new report titled "Lab leader, market ascender - China's rise in biotechnology".

Brown and Groenewegen-Lau explore the goals, trends and international ties of China’s biotech sector and introduce options for Europe to develop its own strategy on biotechnology. The analysis is part of the MERICS China Tech Observatory (CTO), a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).