Four teams from Germany and three teams from Belgium will take the chance to learn about business plans, pitching and communication and will compete to win the final award in September 2019. Read More
Because of growing pressure for the use of more natural or bio-based raw materials and thanks to a rising awareness amongst customers today, these new bio-based plastics have now the capacity to compete with so-called conventional plastics. But what about this new sector? Is it capable of fulfilling the future needs of the industry? Read More
Lack of policies related to investment and demand in the bio-based products remain large barriers to small and medium-sized enterprises working in the bioeconomy in North-West Europe. This is the conclusion of a survey carried out as part of the BioBase4SME project in 2018. The project, co-financed by InterregNWE, aims to support SMEs in the bioeconomy with funded technical and business services, as well as training. Read More
We are happy to announce that the BioBase4SME project, an INTERREG NWE project, has been extended for 6 months to give even more SMEs the change to benefit of the support of the BioBase4SME activities. The activities are continued in each of the three pillars of the project. Read More
On Saint Nickolas (06/12/18) around 29 participants coming from young companies, (almost) spin-outs, universities and bigger players spent the afternoon with CLIB2021 and the Interreg North-West Europe project BioBase4SME in the Maxhaus in the old city town of Düsseldorf to learn about success factors of founding a startup. Read More
Both BioBase4SME and SuperBIO (H2020) projects presented their outcomes and findings to set-up and manage voucher schemes for SMEs and start-ups active in the circular bio-economy to access innovation support services. Read More
We are looking back upon a very successful pitching and networking event! Around 140 participants were attending this event (out of 177 registrations). Among these participants there were 44 SME’s or (about to) start-ups, 7 investors, 11 RTO’s, 11 governmental institutions and 21 innovations service providers. Read More
Factsheets describing the current bioeconomy climate in six European countries were released this month. They are part of BioBase4SME project’s aims of helping start-ups and SMEs to overcome barriers and bring their bioeconomy innovations to market. Read More
“France Chimie Normandie” (FCN) and “Nov&atech” organized a training course on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as part of the BioBase4SME and "Chimie Biosourcée Normandie" projects on the October 11th, in Mont Saint Aignan, France. Read More
BioBase4SME’s REWIN organized a workshop on biodegradable plastics in cooperation with Avans University of Applied Sciences, Wageningen University (WUR), NRK and Holland Chemistry. Read More
