Where's our middle ground between laboratory and large scale?

(sticK - 15 Feb. 2011 ) There's a bit of a scale-up conundrum in New Zealand for people wanting to produce value-added bioactive products from a biological base.

Yes, the small(ish) laboratory-scale work can be carried out OK.

But where do you go for that next level of production - where you need more product to validate the market, but aren't yet confident enough that the market exists?

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