The bioeconomy represents a
massive opportunity for Europe. Locally produced biobased feedstocks rather
than imported fossil resources can be used to produce materials, chemicals,
energy and more, creating a new knowledge and technology intensive economy with
high employment potential and with reduced environmental impact.
The BioBase4SME project expects
to bring at least 20 promising innovations closer to the market, resulting in
new investments and job creation, and provide training to about 200
entrepreneurs active in the biobased economy, thus boosting their innovation
capacity. Other principle outputs are a strong, interregional network to guide
entrepreneurs towards successful innovation, improved regional support for the
bioeconomy in terms of innovation and investment climate, legal framework and
public approval.”
Bio-Innovation
The BioBase4SME project can
provide ‘bio-innovation’ support to entrepreneurs throughout regions in
north-west Europe. This support can include:
- Free workshops and professional training
- Innovation Biocamps
- Innovation vouchers worth up to EUR 100 000.
The support available through the
Innovation voucher system can include:
- Technical assistance such as support for scale-up to pilot scale
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Techno-economic evaluations
- Market research
- Feedstock analysis
- Social acceptance studies
- Business planning and business plan support
The partners involved in the
BioBase4SME project include AC3A (France), Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
(Belgium), CLIB2021 (Germany), the Flanders BioBased Valley (Belgium), MateriaNova (Belgium), the NNFCC (UK), REWIN (NL), TCBB Resource (Ireland), and the
University of York (UK).
INTERREG NWE
BioBase4SME is supported by INTERREG North-West Europe (NWE), a European
Territorial Cooperation Programme funded by the European Commission through the
European
Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The programme has the ambition to
make the North-West Europe area a key economic player and an attractive place
to work and live, with high levels of innovation, sustainability and cohesion.
It invests EUR 370 million of ERDF money in activities based on the cooperation
of organisations from eight countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland,
Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
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