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  1. Executive Summary

  2. Enabling Technology: Advances in Biotech Tools and Approaches
    2.1 Advances in sequencing and synthesis technologies
    2.2 Genome engineering approaches
    2.3 Challenges in genome design

  3. Economic Dimensions of the Biological Engineering Revolution:
    Invention, Innovation, Combination, and Diffusion
    3.1 The Rise of Biological Engineering: More than Speed
    3.2 How Quickly Can Synthetic Biology Advance?
    3.3 The Power of Combination in Technological Systems
    3.4 Directed Evolution
    3.5 Economic Issues of Appropriability and Cumulativeness
    3.6 The Makings of a Technology Revolution
    3.7 Invention and Inn ovation: The Role of Technology Clusters
    3.8 Diffusion Lags and Economic Impacts
    3.9 Effects on Productivity
    3.10 Biological Engineering and the Competitive Advantage of Nations
    3.11 Conclusions and Implications

  4. Applications of Genome Synthesis and Design
    4.1 Chemicals: Engineering New Pathways and Creating New Products
    4.2 Energy: Opening New Biological Routes for Energy Transformation
    4.3 Synthetic Vaccines: Opportunities for Rapid-Response Biosecurity

  5. Scenarios for the Future
    5.1 The Scenario Elements
    5.2 Overview of the Scenarios
    5.3 Underworld - The New Era of Prohibition
    5.4 The Gilded Lab - Slow but Steady Progress
    5.5 Modular Life - The Genovation Explosion
    5.6 Barricades - The New Manhattan Project