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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p><jats:bold>Bioreactors – State of the art and recognizable future developments.</jats:bold> Industrial biotechnological processes, which require monoseptic conditions, are currently performed largely batchwise in stirred tank reactors. A broad‐based exploitation of the potential of biotechnology, i.e. both in the production of commodity biologicals/chemicals and in the manufacture of products of the „new”︁ biotechnology, requires, for economic and technological reasons, continuous processes and other reactor configurations, which permit increased biomass concentrations by cell retention or immobilization, and integration of work‐up operations.</jats:p>