BIOERG

Bio-energy Innovation Center

of the Minas Gerais State

Marcelo Franco
Coordinator of the State Bioenergy Program
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overview

Minas Gerais State potentials

z Tropical favorable climate conditions and large areas with
significant proportion of agri-culture soil within three
representative biomasses: cerrado, semi-arid and atlantic forest

z Massive technical and scientific skills and research centers:

11 Federal universities, 2 State universities and several renowned
research institutions such as; EMBRAPA, EPAMIG, CETEC

z Strategic geographical position as a near future innovation center

and knowledge, technology and information diffusion towards the
Southeast Brazil

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Minas Gerais State potentials

z Traditional industrial park under stable entrepreneurial
structure and expanding steadily in the production of ethanol,
paper and wood-pulp and steels.

z High potential for production of vegetable oils and biodiesel

production, involving family holders in sustainable development

z Great opportunities in energy cogeneration from biomass and

solid and gas waste (charcoal, sugar cane bagasse, blast furnace
gases, urban and rural waste)

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Production clusters - APLs

BODIESEL AND OILS CLUSTER
Region: Norte de Minas
Reference: Montes Claros city

BOMASS AND CHARCOAL CLUSTER

Region: Central
Reference: Sete Lagoas city

ETANOL cluster
Region: Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba
Reference: Uberaba e Uberlândia cities

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BIOERG Mission

z To promote the technological innovation

process with an aim at fostering the
competitiveness of the bio-energy sector

BIOERG is a joint initiate of thee State Secretariats: Sectes (Science and Technology),
SEDE (Economic Development) and SEAMA (Agriculture) as per Resolution nr 13]2008

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Goals
z To intervene in priority and strategic sectors to generate
innovations in bio-energy by means of national and
international networks

z to support strategically the private sector, with emphasis

on the competitive intelligence, technological innovation
and human resources capacity building

z To share infra-structure and to render laboratory services

of high caliber and bio-security assurance

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Scope
z To develop new agricultural technologies with agro-industry
impact

z To improve and adequate processes, products and equipments

for agricultural and industrial production

z To render services in quality certification of products and

equipments

z To offer logistic, financial and capacity building support

z To support technically and legally the intellectual property

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Implementation strategy

Organizational structure

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strategic implementation

Competitive Intelligence Division

NIC BIO

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Competitive intelligence Division - NIC BIO

Modus operandis

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Competitive Intelligence Division- NIC BIO

Functional structure: offices

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Competitive intelligence Division - NIC BIO

Clusters intervention

NIC
Regional
(em cada
APL)

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Science, Technology and Innovation Net

CT&I

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Science, Technology and Innovation Net- CT&I

Modus operandis

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Competitive intelligence Division - NIC BIO

Functional structure: Platforms

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Implementation Strategy

Operations Dynamic – first stage

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 Thank you!
marcelo.franco@tecnologia.mg.gov.br
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