Research and Innovation

Working Group
Innovation

Mission

A trilateral cross- border innovation program on technical and business-case innovations for energy and raw materials transition and digital transformation to contribute to the Green Deal and societal targets, to become leading in chemical innovation and improve competitiveness. Incremental solutions fall short, the required massive change to sustainable chemistry asks for drastic innovation. 

Chair

Participants
Companies

Avantium, BASF, Borealis, BP, Corbion, Coval Energy. B-Fab, Covestro,  Evonik, LyondellBasell, SABIC, Shell, Thyssenkrupp, Total, Yara, 
Ports

Port of Antwerp, 
Port of Rotterdam 
Associations

essenscia,VCI NRW, VNCI
Timeline 
Dec. 2017

• 1st WG Workshop: Kick-off
2018

• April 2018: Trilateral Workshop Innovation  – where the 7 innovation themes were selected by the participating companies.

• July - December 2018 Next step trilateral Workshops on Trilateral Innovation Agenda.
2019

• Jan 2019 – ongoing: Workshops building consortia on Trilateral Innovation Agenda. 
Aproach
The innovation table approach is driven by needs of the chemical industry. In pursuing these ambitions, the working method is bottom-up, industry-driven with a focus on consortia building, scaling up to pilot and demo facilities; bridging the gap between science and market and connection to regional, national and European projects and funding schemes. 

The basis for the trilateral innovation program is the strategic innovation agenda, which was determined in a workshop with leading Trilateral companies. In-depth discussions between the participants led to the following themes and enabling topics;

Strategic Innovation themes:
• CO2 as a feedstock source (CCU)
• E-cracking / Electrification in High-Temperature Cracking
• Electrochemical conversion
• Carbon circularity in products
• Hydrogen of the future
• Biomass as a feedstock
• Digital Transformation

Enabling Topics:
• Startup & Scale-ups
• Demo- & Pilot Plants
• Funding & innovation Hurdles


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