What does Sustainable

Economy need?

An Industrial Perspective

IMPORTANT NOTE:

This is not a perspective of a single guy or a single company. We are ahead of others but are not alone, and most of what we are doing now, will be the standard, soon. There are hundreds and thousands of companies on this road with the same or very similar approach which need well and adequately educated professionals in their business in the next couple of years. It is the real challenge of the European Universities how they can serve this need.

THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY NEEDS

Citizens of the “Universitas”

STATEMENT:

1. with a globally integrated knowledge

in Science, Technology, Society & Culture

2. with the capacity to grab the

essence, and having ability to prioritize and focus

3. with the skills to communicate

through companies, industries, geographies and cultures

PERSONAL

TRAINED: Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology

GIFTED: Inventor, Painter and Lateral (Out-of-the-Box) Thinker

SPECIALITIES: Living Technologies & Creativity Engineering

1974 1989 2011

PERSONAL

15 years at

UNIVERSITY as

Lecturer and

Researcher

22 years in

BUSINESS as

Entrepreneur and

Strategist

XX years in

SUSTAINABILITY as

Global Catalyst

BUSINESS

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BUSINESS

BUSINESS

BUSINESS

BUSINESS

USA

EUROPE

INDIA SE-ASIA

CHINA

BUSINESS

A COMPANY, BORN GLOBAL

BUSINESS

BIOTECHNOLOGY NANOTECHNOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE

NOW, FOR DECENTRALIZED TREAT AND REUSE of WATER, BUT

LITERALLY, CAN BE ANYTHING

reactor-cells showing wide range of differentiating capabilities

• BACTERIA

• PROTOZOA

• SNAILS

• MUSSELS

• CRAYFISH

• PLANTS

• FISH

designed and trained to eat everything, in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of energy

SOCIAL, URBAN AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION

SOCIAL, URBAN AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION

HUGE INDUSTRIAL PARK

RESIDENTIAL AREA

SOCIAL, URBAN AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION

SOCIAL, URBAN AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION

SEWAGE TREATMENT AS A SHOW AND ENTERTAINMENT

started spontaneously

Knowledge transfer and Advocacy needs trained Professionals

THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY NEEDS:

Citizens of the “Universitas”

SUSTAINABILITY

A complex metabolic network system, balanced between Nature and Human Society. You need to have full understanding of the Whole to be efficient in the Details

Watts & Strogatz: Collective dynamics of „small-world” networks

Nature, 1998

Barabási & Albert: Emergence of scaling in random networks

Science, 1999

BREAKTHROUGHS IN UNDERSTANDING LIFE

Junjie Qin et al: A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

Nature, 2010

BREAKTHROUGHS IN UNDERSTANDING LIFE

1. ONLY 10 % of “US” are Human Cells

2. Only 1 of every 150 genes within “US” are human

Who We Are?

The Humane Genome 2

OK, even if we know how Living Systems work, but how we can design and build

1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050

30 0.1

0.25 0.7

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6.5

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2010: 3,5 Bln

URBANIZATION Between 1950 and 2050, 95% of the growth is in developing countries

LIFE EXPECTANCY

From Upper Paleolithic to early 20th Century: 30-35 years

(at birth)

more than doubled in 4 (!!!) generations

world average in 2010 is 67,5, over 85 in Japan

WATER ENERGY

FOOD WASTE

METABOLISM, INTEGRATED INTO THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

(Drinking and Cooking): 5

Household: 200

Industry & Services: 800

Food production: 3000

WATER CONSUMPTION

GLOBAL AVERAGE TOTAL 4,000 l/person/day

95

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THE RESOURCES ARE LIMITED 1

CHANGE THE ATTITUDE

ORGANICA MATRIX INITIATIVE

Building a Global University Network of

Living, Learning Laboratories

PROGRAM PLANNED TO BE LAUNCHED IN 2012 Q3