Symposium on Stakeholders Perspectives on the Bioeconomy

1508687（Murthy）该奖项部分支持利益相关者对生物经济的观点研讨会。 生物基经济具有以环境可持续方式生产生物燃料和生物产品的潜力。尽管政府和私人通过研究、中试规模测试、大学产业联盟和财政激励措施支持创建新的生物经济，但这一承诺尚未完全实现商业规模。原料物流和转化技术方面的挑战已引起研究人员的关注，目前正在开发许多解决方案来应对这些挑战。不幸的是，生产者和加工者所面临的实际问题在同行评审文献中受到的关注较少。S-1041多国委员会由来自15所以上赠地大学的研究人员组成，他们从事生物能源和生物产品的各个方面的工作，如原料、生物化学和热化学转化、技术经济和生命周期评估。S-1041多州委员会的年度会议举行，以协调和分享来自全国各地的赠地大学的研究。在过去的几年里，组织了研讨会，与来自资助机构的主要研究人员和演讲者分享最新的研究知识和协调未来的研究。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市俄亥俄州州立大学的OARDC（俄亥俄州农业研究与发展中心）举行。与以往的研讨会不同，S-1041多国委员会成员决定将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了解生物经济发展中的挑战。这些信息将用于进一步制定和协调S-1041委员会的研究议程，并将指导全国十几所赠地大学的生物燃料和生物产品研究。这是一个会议，学生可以与生物经济的整个部门，包括研究人员，生产商，加工商，金融部门和政府机构进行互动。这将有助于引导下一代劳动力应对生物经济的挑战和机遇。因此，NSF基金将通过旅行奖励支持研究生和本科生参加会议。研讨会的会议记录将以硬拷贝和软拷贝的形式出版，并由S-1041成员向全国感兴趣的观众广泛分发。此外，将在会议结束时编写一份白色文件，并广泛分发。

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.