Business view and approach

for upcoming resource issues

12 December 2012

Frits de Groot

Major business opinion:

Don‟t stay too long in the stage of

deepening and analysing the problem

Resource issues are an opportunity

and not a threat

Business and industry are creative and

innovative enough to transform the

“problems” into opportunities

Public Private Cooperation and PartnershipsIssue Business Government

Geopolitical items and

market issues

Supply and share

experiences and

practices

Act in EU, WTO, OECD

etc. and bilateral

SWOT analyses light Deliver input relevant

observations and

practices from markets

Deliver input relevant

information on critical

resources

Raising awareness Branches Help and support

Infrastructure for

recycling/reuse

Act together with

knowledge centres and

institutes, linked with

topsector approach

Take away

administrative and

„legal‟ barriers

Substitutes,

alternatives

Act together with

knowledge centres and

institutes, linked with

topsector approach

Facilitate

Observations and conclusion

Upcoming partly biobased economy is

part of the solution

Cooperating with German government

and business is very welcome

Speed up!