Professor Greg Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in the School of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), talks about:
· biotechnology and metabolic engineering;
· sustainability and the chemical industry;
· what chemical engineers bring to biotechnology and metabolic engineering;
· weblabs in chemical engineering programmes;
· the role models and mentors;
· how academic Institutions can power economic growth;
· the academia as a stakeholder in entrepreneurship;
· sustaining personal and professional excellence and high standards;
· lessons for making Greece a technological hub.
