All VCs have been mapped (overall structure, added value in each step and actors involved). A market analysis was also conducted based on the VC maps. This was a SWOT analysis carried out around the 5 “C” of Marketing (Customers, Competitors, Collaborators, Capabilities, and Context). Market analysis was coupled with a demand and capacity assessment to assess the demand for the VCs’ products and producers’ potential capacity to meet this demand. The demand assessment focused on market size, estimated prices, market trends and growth prospects and the capacity assessment on the on the estimated production quantities, as reported by DEMO producers, for the next two years (short-term) and the next five years (medium-term). Also, business models for the VCs are also being designed, with substantial progress made on DEMO 1. The approach for each VC was at three levels: economic, environmental and social. Results from these workshops will be will be consolidated, refined, and integrated in the final business models that will be ready by M24. Furthermore, preliminary exploitation plans for the results of the value chains have been conceived encompassing the management of innovation and IPR in the framework of FUELPHORIA, setting up the context for the smooth exploitation and sustainability of its results after the end of the project. This is achieved via identifying background and foreground IP, as well as exploitable results and potential exploitation paths, clarifying access needs and rights, as well as ownership and exploitation claims, identifying possible conflicts in IPR, making decisions on the protection of each key exploitable result (KER) and implementing those decisions in an appropriate way depending on the chosen exploitation route and ownership status. Finally, a mapping of biofuel companies in Egypt has been conducted coupled with engagement with local stakeholders, as well as a preliminary investigation of the interest of European financial players of biofuels and RFNBOs industries in North African markets.
