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Title: 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

3
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?

4
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

5
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

7
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

8
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

9
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

10
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
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