Bayer CropScience combines all essential factors for successful innovation

Bayer CropScience has the dedicated staff and the necessary resources to ensure a continuous flow of innovation.

The company employs about 3,700 people in the area of R&D working at nine sites on three continents, complemented by numerous field testing stations around the globe. We can draw on one of the highest R&D budgets in agrochemicals. Our overall mid-term spending target for our entire R&D including plant biotechnology is € 625 million. With 40,000 patents granted to date, Bayer CropScience has a strong and comprehensive intellectual property (IP) position.

Ultra-high throughput screening, micro-screening, combinatorial chemistry, genomics and knowledge management systems are among the state-of-the-art technologies that are changing the way our scientists work. Indeed, they are now progressively uncovering the building blocks of life, allowing them to precisely evaluate the processes involved and thus develop more efficient or new solutions to solve the global needs of growers and an ever-growing and more-demanding world population.

In Crop Protection, we can rely on our excellent pipeline. Bayer CropScience started a launch program in 2000 with the objective of bringing 26 new active substances for crop protection to market by 2011. By 2005, 16 of these 26 active ingredients had already been successfully brought to market. Five active ingredients are currently undergoing the direct market launch phase. These substances are fluopicolide, a fungicide that was initially launched in some markets in 2006; flubendiamide, an insecticide that was jointly developed with a Japanese company; our corn herbicide tembotrione; the cereals herbicide pyrasulfotole; and our insecticide spirotetramate.

In addition, our development pipeline currently contains 18 projects that are scheduled to reach market maturity by 2015. Bayer CropScience can also look to a broad spectrum of promising research projects for the future. We currently have 45 projects in the early research phase.

The active ingredients that are scheduled to be launched between 2000 and 2011 have a peak sales potential of some EUR 2 billion per year in total.

Today, we are at the cutting-edge of crop protection R&D and Bayer CropScience plans to continue to expand this know-how. Moving ahead in the area of plant biotechnology – one of the most important technologies of the 21st century – we are well on our way to further build and extend our expertise.

Our scientists are working on crops that can withstand stress such as drought or require less fertilizer to grow. We see exciting opportunities for new products and solutions that will help deal with the global challenges of today and tomorrow to improve both the quantity and quality of food, feed and fiber in a safe and sustainable way.

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