The first workshop hosted by the CREATE for BioZone program on November 12, 2019 was a success. The workshop was attended by 75 participants including 4 CREATE trainees along with 43 other Highly Qualified Personnel (students and post-doctoral fellows). Allison Simmonds from Savant Technical Consulting and a panel of industry experts from EcoSynthetix, Fortress Advanced Bioproducts, IGPC and Canfor Pulp gave an insightful overview of TEA techniques and their biotechnology applications, covering topics that included:
- Process design fundamentals
- Lab data for TEA and scale-up
- Economic analysis tools for talking to industry
- Estimating product price and feedstock costs
- Cap-Ex, Op-Ex and project financing
- Technology commercialization
- From idea to innovation: industry perspectives
- Pricing and marketing lessons learned: industry perspective
Presentations were followed by an engaging roundtable discussion with industry partners.
