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Thomas Alstrup Consultant on Eco-Innovation,
Pro-Ceres/FORA Denmark
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Government-driven Partnerships to
promote National systems
Background Lessons learned Recommendations How
did we fare ?
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• Focus on environmental challenges on a global
  scale
• Promotion of Danish environmental and energy
  exports
• Based on Danish strongholds
• Effort to be developed and operated by binding
  partnerships for innovation between business,
  knowledge environments, the authorities and
  consumers

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2006/7 5 partnerships
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2nd generation biofuels
Industrial biotechnology partnership for
environmentally friendly livestock
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Denmark
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Broad or narrow approach - partnership or
interest organization?
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Partnership or Bermuda Triangle
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Facilitation multidisciplinary cross-cutting
skills and competencies
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Inflexible, specialized research, development and
demonstration programmes
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Trust takes time

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Denmark
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Recommendations The new nature of innovation

• Develop tools and methods to establish, support,
  reinvigorate and benchmark partnerships
• Maintain focus on technology development and
  research
• Independent partnership chairman and secretariat
• Research and development programmes adapted to
  partnerships
• Training and education of partnership
  facilitators
• Long term perspective - trial and error process
  Demand action, but allow time to establish trust
  and the ability to share decision-making

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Denmark
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How did we fare ?
From Slurry to Clean Water 5 interdependent
projects

• Use enzymes and micro organisms to 1. Improve
  the preliminary separation/characteristics of
  slurry 2. Establish biogasplants based on slurry
  only 3. Make the fibre (ash-) fraction more
  accessible to crops 4.Manage nitrification and
  denitrification when cleaning the liquid fraction
  by means of conventional waste water technology
  5. Eliminate heavy metals and potassium from the
  liquid fraction
• Global competition analysis, Global Market
  analysis. Life Cycle Assessment of current and
  future technologies

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Denmark
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How did we fare ?

• White book 2nd generation bioethanol in Denmark
  
• Website on biofuels
• Workgroups on LCA-assessment of 2G biofuels
• Coordinating sponsorship and production of 2G
  bioethanol for VIP-transport at the Copenhagen
  Climate Summit, December 2009

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Denmark
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Further information

• Thomas Alstrup
• Pro-Ceres/
• FORA/The Danish Enterprise and Constructions
  Division for Research and Analysis
• 45 35 46 66 78
• ta_at_ebst.dk

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