Developing and Commercializing Sustainable New Wood Products

Developing and Commercializing Sustainable New Wood Products
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2003
Genre: Forest products
ISBN:

A process was designed to evaluate the sustainability and potential marketability of USDA Forest Service patented technologies. The process was designed and tested jointly by the University of North Carolina, the University of Michigan, Partners for Strategic Change, and the USDA Forest Service. Two technologies were evaluated: a fiber-based product and a wood fiber/fiberglass composite technology. The results indicate several different ways in which the technologies might be exploited to produce new commercial products for both domestic and international markets, through licensing of the patents and other agency/industry partnerships. This report represents the initial effort by the Forest Service to work in partnership with business schools to evaluate the commercial potential of patented agency technologies and locate potential licensees and cooperators interested in utilizing the technologies. The Forest Service will seek additional cooperative ventures with university business schools to develop business plans for other patented, but as yet unlicensed, technologies as the next step in the process of commercializing these technologies.

Forest Value Chain Optimization and Sustainability

Forest Value Chain Optimization and Sustainability
Author: Sophie D'Amours
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498704875

This book provides a global perspective on the various issues that the industry has to face as well as to provide some key global strategies that can help coping with those global challenges, such as collaboration, strategic value chain planning, and interdependency analyses. It presents literature reviews, strategic research orientations, assessment of some current key issues, and state-of-the-art methodologies.