Pilots4U launches a survey to identify the needs of the European bioeconomy sector regarding pilot and demo facilities
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The European bioeconomy sector is growing
rapidly and to reach its full potential, companies and institutions need
support to develop their innovations into marketable products. Early
collaboration with facilities that can scale-up their innovative processes from
laboratory to industrial scale offering access to a wide range of process
equipment and experienced personal can substantially reduce costs, risks and
development time.
Figure 1. Logo of the Pilots4u project
In view of this situation, the BBI JU has funded Pilots4U project
under its 2016 call. Pilots4U sets out to map all existing open access
bioeconomy pilot and multipurpose demonstration facilities. It will include
data on available equipment and personnel competences with the aim of creating
one easily accessible database for all actors operating in the sector. In
parallel, it will survey potential users of open access facilities to
understand their needs for equipment and expertise. Comparing the available
assets with the needs expressed by industry will clarify the areas in which
investment in infrastructure for innovation is required.
For this reason, the project has launched a short
survey designed to gather information about the type of equipment and services
that companies looking to bring a biorefining innovation process towards
commercialisation require. This is the link to participate: https://www.biopilots4u.eu/content/survey.
The summarised, anonymised results of the survey will be made available via the
website of the project by June 2018.