NATONAL BIOTECHNOLOGY WEEK BIOPRODUCTS

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NATONAL BIOTECHNOLOGY WEEKBIO-PRODUCTS

• THECIS INNOVATION CLUB SEMINAR
• Ag-West Bio and NRC-IRAP
• DON SOMERS, Ph.D.
• Steck and Associates

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THE WORLD IS FLATThomas L. Friedman

• Your understanding the Bio-Industry -
  Bio-Products and their relationship to the
  Bio-Economy
• Who leads? Who commits?
• Whats my role? Who invests?
• Need to merge innovation and public policy
• Theres still something missing

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Why is it taking so long for the
Bio-Industry/Economy/Products to catch on?

• It requires a complete transformation of how
  people think and how business is done
• Presents changes in the fundamental economic
  equilibrium
• Requires relearning of process controls
• New environmental awareness role in embracing
  new technologies?

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The Bio-Industry (Solar Driven)

• Bio-Mass Renewable Feedstock (before the advent
  of the petrochemical revolution in the 1930s,
  most chemicals came from bio-mass)
• Waste by-products agriculture, forestry,
  municipal, industrial
• Dedicated industrial crops
• Designer crops

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The Bio-Industry (Solar Driven)

• Bio-technology
• genetic engineering
• Bio-processes
• Enzymes high specificity and throughput
• Bio-catalysis energy and material efficiency
• Metabolic engineering cells as living factories
  (high specificity, efficiency and yield, cleaner
  production)
• Reduced use of solvents

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The Bio-Industry (Solar Driven)

• Bio-products
• Products derived from bio-mass
• Bio-fuels
• Bio-chemicals
• Bio-materials
• Bio-degradable, environmentally friendly and
  sustainable
• Bio-prospecting

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How to View the Bio-Industry

• Information Technology
• Convergence of software, hardware,
  telecommunications, entertainment, new media
• Bio-Industry
• Convergence of agriculture, forest products,
  energy, chemicals, plastics, health and
  pharmaceuticals

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Saskatchewan Built to Invent?

• Saskatchewan has all the elements to be the
  suitable place for developing the next
  generation green resource
• Abundant bio-resources available land base
• Established agriculture forestry, mining,
  manufacturing processing industries
• Strong research base in chemistry, natural
  products genomics
• Competitive bio-technology industry

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Inside Innovative MindsThe Saskatchewan Idea
Mill!

• New industrial plant based oil products
• Wood treatments and bio-diesel
• Bio-energy ethanol from cereal grain and manure
  digesters
• Gasification of wood-wastes for electricity
• Flax fiber in textiles and composites
• Bio-plastics and absorbents
• Plant made industrial products
• Pharmaceuticals / nutraceuticals
• Bio-control products

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Benefits of Bio-Industry

• Traditional Benefits
• Reduce GHG
• Renewable
• Sustainability a collaboration not competition
• Rural economic development
• Change from commodity producers to industrial
  producers

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Benefits of Bio-Industry

• New
• Energy self security
• Intellectual Property
• Interdisciplinary research cross specialization
• In-step with global activities
• Partnerships
• Matching technology to consumer needs