Symposium on Stakeholders Perspectives on the Bioeconomy

1508687 （Murthy）这个奖项是对生物经济利益相关者观点研讨会的部分支持。生物基经济有潜力以环境可持续的方式生产生物燃料和生物产品。尽管政府和私人通过研究、试点规模测试、大学产业联盟和财政激励来支持创建新的生物经济，但这一承诺尚未在商业规模上完全实现。原料物流和转化技术方面的挑战已经引起了研究人员的注意，并且正在开发许多解决方案来应对这些挑战。不幸的是，生产者和加工者面临的实际问题在同行评议文献中得到的关注较少。S-1041多州委员会由来自超过15所赠地大学的研究人员组成，研究生物能源和生物产品的各个方面，如原料、生化和热化学转化、技术经济和生命周期评估。S-1041多州委员会的年度会议召开，以协调和分享来自全国各地土地赠款大学的研究。在过去的几年里，来自资助机构的主要研究人员和演讲者组织了研讨会，分享最新的研究知识并协调未来的研究。2015年S-1041多州委员会会议将于2015年8月10日至11日在俄亥俄州伍斯特的俄亥俄州立大学OARDC（俄亥俄农业研究与发展中心）举行。与以往的研讨会相比，S-1041多国家委员会成员决定将2015年研讨会的重点放在获取生物经济利益相关者的观点上。2015年研讨会的目标是从利益相关者的角度对生物经济发展中的挑战进行理解。这些信息将用于进一步发展和协调S-1041委员会的研究议程，并将指导全国十多所赠地大学对生物燃料和生物产品的研究。在这个会议上，学生们可以与生物经济的整个部门进行互动，包括研究人员、生产者、加工商、金融部门和政府机构。这将有助于下一代劳动力适应生物经济中的挑战和机遇。因此，NSF基金将通过旅游奖励来支持研究生和本科生出席会议。专题讨论会的会议记录将以硬拷贝和软拷贝两种格式出版，并由S-1041成员向全国感兴趣的听众广泛分发。此外，将在会议结束时编写一份白皮书，并将广泛分发。

1508687 (Murthy) This award is in partial support of the Symposium on Stakeholders Perspective on the Bioeconomy. The biobased economy has potential to produce biofuels and bioproducts in an environmentally sustainable way. Despite governmental and private support to create a new bioeconomy through research, pilot scale testing, university industry consortiums and financial incentives, this promise has not been realized completely at commercial scale. Challenges in feedstock logistics and conversion technologies have received attention of researchers and many solutions are being developed to address these challenges. Unfortunately, practical issues faced by producers and processors have received less attention in peer reviewed literature. The S-1041 multistate committee consists of researchers from more than 15 land grant universities working on various facets of bioenergy and bioproducts such as feedstocks, biochemical and thermochemical conversion, techno-economic and life cycle assessment. Annual meetings of the S-1041 multistate committee are held to coordinate and share research from land grant universities across the nation. In the last few years, symposiums were organized with leading researchers and speakers from funding agencies to share the latest research knowledge and coordinate future research. The 2015 S-1041 multistate committee meeting will be held in OARDC (Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center), Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, August 10-11, 2015. In contrast to past symposiums, the S-1041 multistate committee membership decided to focus the 2015 symposium on obtaining perspectives from stakeholders in the bioeconomy. The goal of the 2015 symposium is to develop an understanding of challenges in the evolution of the bioeconomy from a stakeholder perspective. This information will be used to further develop and coordinate the research agenda for the S-1041 committee and will guide research on biofuels and bioproducts in over a dozen land grant universities across the nation. This is a meeting where the students can interact with the entire sector of the bioeconomy including researchers, producers, processors, financial sector and government agencies. This will help in orienting the next workforce generation to challenges and opportunities in the bioeconomy. Therefore, the NSF funds will support attendance of graduate and undergraduate students to the meeting through travel awards. The proceedings from the symposium will be published in both hard and soft copy formats and distributed widely to interested audience across the nation by S-1041 members. Additionally, a white paper will be developed at the end of the conference and will be made widely available.