From Innovations to solving Challenges

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CROP Innovation & Business

02 - 04 April 2017, Amsterdam Ronald Zwart PhD MBA

The Biomass Value Chain

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How R&D-insights lead to new products and

solutions that help solve the big societal challenges

R&D Insights Products and

Solutions Solving the Challenges

Conditions to Success

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Solving the Challenges

How well do we know the

challenge?

Where or when is the

solution relevant?

Example: Palm Oil

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Biomass yield

10% is palm oil

90% is other: EFB, OPF, PKS, MF, POME

Challenges

Increase revenue per hectare

Reduce biomass waste problem

Solution

Biorefinery

New Problem

Palm oil yields!

Solving the Challenges

Source:

Utilize biomass fractions for biobased products

Conditions to Success

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What solutions does the

market want?

What is the market?

Products and Solutions

Products and Solutions

Example: Pulp and Paper

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50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

300000

1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015

Paper grade pulp

Specialty cellulose

Lignin

BioEthanol

Conditions to Success

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R&D Insights

What are the

external risks?

1975 1983 1990 1994 1997 2001 2003 2012 2013 2015

NL Besluit GGO

EU Regulation GM food feed

EU Directive GMO cultivation

Big Data

CRISPR-Cas9

GM Crop Cultivation

Recombinant DNA

Biofuels

Whole Genome Sequencing

Robotics

Regulatory Risk Gap

The Biomass Value Chain

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How R&D-insights lead to new products and

solutions that help solve the big societal challenges

R&D Insights Products and

Solutions Solving the Challenges

Assess R&D Risks Know the market Understand the

Challenges

Survey

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Identify possible gaps and provide valuable insights

to optimize R&D and product development strategies.

Survey

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Assess R&D Risks

In your view, what is the most significant risk to

your R&D and product development strategies?

16%

8%

4%

12%

4%

20%

16%

16%

4%

56%

Time-to-market

Public Opinion

Product development cost

Access to finance

Internal organization

International government

policies

Existing legal framework

Changes to the existing legal

framework

Local government policies

Survey

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Know the market

What solution do you - your customer – your family

rank as most relevant for Zero Hunger?

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10

20

30

40

You Your Customer Your Family

Crop breeding and

crop research:

Survey

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Understand the Challenges

0 10 20 30 40 50

Suboptimal agricultural practices

Suboptimal supply chains

Need for crop improvement

Development of more agricultural land

Soil/Crop nutrient management

Government policies

Non-sustainable consumption patterns

Public opinion slowing innovation

Intellectual property rights

Access to finance/financing mechanisms

In your view, what is the most important challenge that

needs to be overcome in order to reach Zero Waste?

Thank you

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