Editorial: ECAB focus issue: Engineered catalysts, robust, cost-effective and integrated bioprocesses and high-throughput screening

How can technology and industrial biotechnology contribute to a more bio-based economy? At the 3^rd European Congress of Applied Biotechnology (ECAB3) in Nice in 2015, relevant topics and technologies and their contribution to sustainability were presented and discussed. In this issue of Biotechnology Journal, five special articles are selected from this conference, highlighting processes and technologies envisaging the development of engineered catalysts, robust bioprocesses, as well as high-throughput screening methods for process development.