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