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Since the last few decades, many discoveries have been taken place in the field of microbiology and its applications in various fields like agriculture, pharmaceuticals, sewage treatments, healthcare, etc. But the main problem is to commercialize these new technologies on large scale for welfare of society. Many hurdles are present in the way of this commercialization, foremost being the lack of awareness, use of same old strategies which are laborious, time consuming, expensive and also lack of resources. Therefore, there is a need of new technologies to be introduced for commercialization. For example, governments of many countries have taken initiative against the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), i.e. microbial resistance to antibiotics. In this approach, they conducted a national consultation to give a platform for researchers to meet with industries and share their technologies. Many governments have started giving funding for new technological projects. Vendors also have started new strategies to promote new technologies by providing new platforms, resources. In the field of agriculture, new technologies like recombinant crops for insect resistance, disease resistance are developed but are not commercialized due to lack of strategy. For this, main strategy is to make farmers aware about the new developments. In this chapter, such new strategies developed by governments, industries and other organizations are discussed.
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Patil, P., Sarkar, A. (2021). New Strategies for Commercialization of Microbial Technologies. In: Soni, R., Suyal, D.C., Bhargava, P., Goel, R. (eds) Microbiological Activity for Soil and Plant Health Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2922-8_23
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