Description: ***You can attend the event using the following link***: https://bit.ly/3n0lEUq Start-ups and spin-offs of the bio-based sector face several hurdles to survive the “Valley of Death”. The workshop aims at identifying: • existing needs and challenges, • possible solutions to reach the market safely. This issue is particularly relevant in the bio-based sector since risks could be higher (e.g. technological development), different (e.g. public acceptance) and less known compared to other ones. Investors and large and experienced companies could be reluctant in investing on the new innovative technologies, processes, products and applications, obstructing the market uptake of promising start-ups and spin-offs, able to support social and environmental objectives fixed by European policies (e.g. the updated European Bioeconomy Strategy, European Green Deal). Start-ups and spin-offs could require also the collaboration of other stakeholders to fully exploit the proposed innovations (e.g. the creation of integrated value chain, the collaboration of and with primary producers, changes in the actual legislation, etc). ***You can attend the event using the following link***: https://bit.ly/3n0lEUq

Application sectors:

Cleaning and hygiene, personal care and cosmetics, health and biomedical

Textile products, clothing, sports and toys

Food packaging, disposable tablewear

Biofuels and bioenergy

Building, construction and restoration, paintings, decorations and furniture

Nutraceuticals, environmental bioregulation and biological sensors

Other

Topics of discussion:

Market/business development

Challenges:

A2 – Specify Unique Selling Points (USP)

A3 – Up-scaling