Essential Interactive Workshops: Wednesday 10 March 2010

• Workshop A: Using biopolymers in plastic packaging
• Workshop B: Global innovation strategies for developing new inventions while protecting proprietary information

09.00 - 12:00 Workshop A: Using biopolymers in plastic packaging

• What are biopolymers? Which standards are important for biodegradability and/or compostability?
• What are the differences between biodegradability and oxo-degradability (degradable petrochemical polymers)?
• Market updates on the use of biopolymers for plastic packaging
• Presentation of information sources for biopolymers
• How do you work with biopolymers? Reviewing the machinery, the testing processes and other necessary tools
• Additives for changing the characteristics of the finished product
• Applications worldwide

Prof. Dr. Hans-Josef Endres
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
University of Applied Sciences, Germany

13.00 - 16:00 Workshop B: Global innovation strategies for developing new inventions while protecting proprietary information

• How can small companies think big in innovation?
• One possible innovation strategy for medium and small sized businesses
• Networking as a conceptual solution to protect your new innovation
  • Challenges involved
  • Lessons learnt from international case studies

Frank Oestervemb
Former Innovation Manager
Faerch Plast AS Austria

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