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Workshop on

Best Practices in Biobased

Industry

Fabio Fava

Ph.D., Professor of Industrial & Environmental Biotechnology Chair of Industrial Biotechnology section of SusChem Italy

Chair of Environmental Biotechnologies - European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB)

Faculty of Engineering Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna DICAM, Via Terracini, 28, I-40131. Bologna, Italy Phone: +39 051 2090330, Fax: +39 051 2090348

E-mail: fabio.fava@unibo.it

BIOCHEM Accelerator Forum

Milan, October 6, 2011

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The biobased industry

After: Dirk Carrez, EuropaBio, Brussels, 3-4 February 2010

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Po

lluti

on

(e.g

., C

O2

, tox

ic

chem

ical

s)

Economic Growth (e.g., employment)

Conventional

technology

Biobased technology

Sustainability of the biobased industry

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1. The need for action against climate change

• Need for a switch to clean processes using renewable

resources as a raw material basis

• Need for an increasing share of bioenergy in energy

consumption (e.g. biofuels)

Main drivers for the Biobased Industry (a)

After: Dirk Carrez, EuropaBio, Brussels, 3-4 February 2010

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2. The need for sustainable development

• Consumers increasingly conscious about the impacts of

their consumption

• Policy makers promoting a low-carbon economy, for

established industries as well as the whole global economy

(e.g. European Recovery Plan, EU 2020 Strategy)

Main drivers for the Biobased Industry (b)

After: Dirk Carrez, EuropaBio, Brussels, 3-4 February 2010

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Main drivers for the Biobased Industry (c)

3. The need to be less dependent of fossil fuel

4. The fast technological development in Industrial Biotechnology

• Development of basic technologies (e.g. directed evolution,

genetic modification tools, system biology, etc.)

• Development of tailor-made and high performance enzymes

• Improvement of efficiency through new developments in reactor

and process design

After: Dirk Carrez, EuropaBio, Brussels, 3-4 February 2010

World sales of biotech

made biobased products

2007:48 bil € (3,5% of total chemical sales)

2012:135 bil € (7,7% of total chemical sales)

2017: 340 bil € (15,4% of total chemical sales)

After G. Festel (EFIB 2009, Lisbon, October 2009;

OECD workshop, Vienna, January 2010)

€ 48 billion, 2007

€ 135 billion, 2012 € 340 billion, 2017

Market opportunities for Biobased Industry

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Developing new

products/ processes Scale up

Small scale

production

Bioproduct

(commercially

available)

Renewable

resources

R&D Knowledge Transformation into

commercially available products

Research:

•Bio/Chem integration

•Higher biorefinery

flexibility

•Downstream

•LCA

Industrial Transfer

•Spin-off/Start-up policy

•Access Pilot plants

•Demonstrators

•Partners Integration

•IPR policy

Promotion of Bio-

Based Products

and Processes

•Policies & Regulations

•Consumer acceptance

Access to

raw materials:

•Higher productivity

•Non food crops

•Biowastes

•Biomass Collection

Biobased industry: main challenges

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ETP-SusChem-IB is cooperating with the Biobased Economy Technology platforms (fields food, aquaculture, animal health, plant science, forest products, and biofuels) via 2 FP7 projects:

Supported by: Global Animal Health ETP EURATEX (ETP for Textile) EUFETEC (European Feed Technology Centre)

• Becoteps (www.becoteps.org) i)Achieve closer and more coordinated collaboration between KBBE ETPs

ii)Develop recommendations - White Paper

III)Enhancing cooperation and cross-disciplinary interaction between value chains to address global challenges linked to biomass resources

IV)Encourage discussions between European and national, public and private, research and innovation initiatives

• Star-Colibri (www.star-colibri.eu) i) Overcome fragmentation in the area of biorefineries research

ii) Support innovations by facilitating industrial exploitation of research results in the biorefinery field

iii) Promote coordination and cooperation in R&D funding

Tools supporting Biobased industry (a)

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• BIOCHEM: Supporting European SMEs to innovate in the sustainable bio based products market

• Objectives: – Develop a new and tailored integrated BIOCHEM toolbox for providing

technical and business support to reduce barriers to take-up of Industrial Biotech, particularly for small and medium-sized companies

– Test the toolbox through a European BIOCHEM accelerator process, that selects high potential bio-based SMEs and supports them from idea identification to bio-based business plan development, finding international business partners, realising proof-of-concept up to attracting finance and market introduction

– Complete a comprehensive assessment of the bio-based products market and potential, deploy a broad dissemination action in order to increase the awareness of its potential for the chemistry-using sector

Tools supporting Biobased industry (b)

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The Lead Market Initiative

Advisory Group's main

recommendations to promote bio-

based products

• Standards, labels and certification

• Legislation promoting market development

• Encourage Green Public Procurement for biobased products

• Financing and funding of research

• Continue to stimulate and enhance technological Innovation and the development of technology (PPP for demonstration projects)

Tools supporting Biobased industry (c)

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Best Practices in/for Biobased industry

The best practices are expected to help further development of

the biobased industry and bio-economy for its implementation by

a wide range of manufacturing sectors where biotechnology is

applied.

Workshop: Best Practices in Biobased Industry

Introduction. Fabio Fava

The successful story of ILSA Company, the fertilizer producing

company. Dr. Franco Cavazza, ILSA Agrotecnologie, Italy

Successful examples of novel biotechnology start ups in Europe. Dr

Guntel Festel, Festel Capital, Switzerland

The successful example of open innovation clusters. Dr Achim Marx,

Evonik Industries & CLIB2021, Germany

Discussion & Conclusions