Acknowledgements
This book emerged out of the ambition to provide insights into how companies can valorise different residues and side streams, both inside and across a
wide range of industry sectors, and how governments can foster the cascading
and sustainable use of bio- resources. These insights have been developed in
the context of a larger interdisciplinary research project under the title “Sustainable path creation for innovative value chains for organic waste products
(SusValueWaste)” funded by the Research Council of Norway’s Bionær programme (project number 244249). We want to thank the Research Council
of Norway for funding the project and for making this book possible.
The project has been coordinated by the Nordic Institute for Studies in
Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), which co- funded this book.
The other research partners were østfold Research in Fredrikstad (Norway),
TIK- Centre at the University of Oslo (Norway), the OREEC – Oslo
Renewable Energy and Environment Cluster (Norway), the Norwegian
Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) in Ås (Norway), the Centre of
Innovation Research at the University of Stavanger (Norway), the Technical
University of Denmark (DTU) in Lyngby (Denmark), the Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE) and
the Faculty of Engineering, LTH at Lund University (Sweden). We want to
thank all the researchers in our project for their discussion and development
of the research ideas which contributed to this book.
Obviously, not all of the results from the project could be included in this
book. Here we want to acknowledge the contributions from our former
NIFU colleagues who helped make this project possible: Sverre Herstad (now
at the University of Oslo), Svein Erik Moen (now at the Research Council
of Norway) and Kyrre Lekve (now at the Simula Research Laboratory). We
also want to acknowledge the contributions from our colleagues at the TIKCentre who were unable to be part of this book project: our first PostDoc
Valentina E. Tartiu (now at Unitelma- Sapienza, University of Rome in Italy),
Håkon Endresen Normann, Olav Wicken and Fulvio Castellacci. We thank
our colleagues at OREEC: Marianne Rist- Larsen Reime, Alexandra Maria
Almasi and Mali Hole Skogen. Several of the book chapters have been made
possible through discussion with colleagues who are not on the list of authors,
This book emerged out of the ambition to provide insights into how companies can valorise different residues and side streams, both inside and across a
wide range of industry sectors, and how governments can foster the cascading
and sustainable use of bio- resources. These insights have been developed in
the context of a larger interdisciplinary research project under the title “Sustainable path creation for innovative value chains for organic waste products
(SusValueWaste)” funded by the Research Council of Norway’s Bionær programme (project number 244249). We want to thank the Research Council
of Norway for funding the project and for making this book possible.
The project has been coordinated by the Nordic Institute for Studies in
Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), which co- funded this book.
The other research partners were østfold Research in Fredrikstad (Norway),
TIK- Centre at the University of Oslo (Norway), the OREEC – Oslo
Renewable Energy and Environment Cluster (Norway), the Norwegian
Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) in Ås (Norway), the Centre of
Innovation Research at the University of Stavanger (Norway), the Technical
University of Denmark (DTU) in Lyngby (Denmark), the Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE) and
the Faculty of Engineering, LTH at Lund University (Sweden). We want to
thank all the researchers in our project for their discussion and development
of the research ideas which contributed to this book.
Obviously, not all of the results from the project could be included in this
book. Here we want to acknowledge the contributions from our former
NIFU colleagues who helped make this project possible: Sverre Herstad (now
at the University of Oslo), Svein Erik Moen (now at the Research Council
of Norway) and Kyrre Lekve (now at the Simula Research Laboratory). We
also want to acknowledge the contributions from our colleagues at the TIKCentre who were unable to be part of this book project: our first PostDoc
Valentina E. Tartiu (now at Unitelma- Sapienza, University of Rome in Italy),
Håkon Endresen Normann, Olav Wicken and Fulvio Castellacci. We thank
our colleagues at OREEC: Marianne Rist- Larsen Reime, Alexandra Maria
Almasi and Mali Hole Skogen. Several of the book chapters have been made
possible through discussion with colleagues who are not on the list of authors,