Disruptive innovations |
Redesigned business models, reconfigured supply
chains, etc. |
Complex knowledge base |
Variety of sciences and technologies such as
life sciences, agronomy, ecology, food science, social science,
biotechnology, nanotechnology, information and communication
technologies and engineering |
Enhanced degree of cooperation with external actors |
Cooperation with
suppliers, universities and research centres, customers and
distributors |
Enhanced commercialization efforts |
New communication to convince
customers to adopt new biobased products, often obtained from previous
waste streams |
Complex and fragmented policy schemes |
New products and new processes
expected to comply to a number of different regulations from different
administrative levels; biomass cascade steps often forbidden by current
policy |