Technical portfolio

The technical portfolio consists of analysis intended, first and foremost, to promote advancement and optimization of the technology. This effort is also intended to ensure that the HIA provides a clear picture of evolving hydrogen RD D needs. 

Usually a company will have a portfolio of assets which are at different stages of the described life cycle. Proper management of the asset base will allow optimisation of financial, technical and human resources. 

Novozymes is a market leader in enzyme solutions. Their manufacturing capabilities are based on an advanced biotech platform, for identifying new enzyme applications. Novozymes produces and sells more than 500 enzyme products covering more than 20 different industries in the food, feed and technical sectors, in 120 countries. With more than 75 types of enzymes and almost 600 different products, Novozymes has the world largest enzymes portfolio. 

In Section 7.3, process-specific technical information on alternative fuels, which is needed for the WTW analysis is presented, and in Section 7.4 drive-system-specific data are provided, which are then merged in a WTW analysis of complete energy chains in comparison in Section 7.5. In reality, the potential number of realistic alternative fuel chains and drive system combinations is much larger. Owing to limited space, a set of most relevant processes is presented. A separate section (7.6) discusses the resource utilisation of the energy chains presented in Section 7.5. Section 7.7 finally combines specific GHG emissions for relevant alternative fuel supply chains with specific costs in a portfolio analysis. 

As we will soon discover, microarray-based technologies have found utility in a number of fields. While DNA arrays are the most technically mature and have the broadest application portfolio, we have witnessed the ever-increasing generation of new kinds of probe arrays antibody, antigen, enzyme, aptamer, carbohydrate, tissue, cell, and small molecule microarrays. The list undoubtedly will continue to expand. We can also describe microarrays in terms of prognostic, diagnostic, and predictive roles. A few examples that examine these applications are provided. 

A careful analysis of the current portfolio of one major pharmaceutical company indicates that about 60% of the chemistry is suitable for continuous processing. About 50% of this chemistry is homogeneous and therefore readily transferable to existing continuous processing technology. The remaining 50% is heterogeneous and will therefore require implementation of some of the current advances in continuous flow equipment such as oscillatory flow reactors [13]. Technically, the transfer of these processes from batch to continuous could happen within... 

The project portfolio enables an overview on the ongoing research activities. Numerous economic and technical parameters have been proposed to provide a meaningful picture. Examples are attractiveness, strategic fit, innovation, gross/net present value, expected profits, R D expenditures, development stage, probability of success, technology fit, and realization time. Most of these parameters cannot be determined quantitatively, at least during the early phases of a project. 

Technology transfer specialists, in contrast, are more focused on business aspects. They need to be able to work closely with and understand the work of the industrial property people, to help them check on the patent applications filed by the institution. But they also, and more importantly, must follow market trends involving the portfolio of patents and applications, orient the preparation of technical cooperation, detect and contact potential partners for future technology transfers, negotiate and draft contractual instruments applicable to each case, monitor the partnerships formed, deal with external law offices specializing in intellectual property, and act in cases of breach of contractual clauses. In relation to this last item, when a contractual infraction or other compliance problem is noted, a choice must be made as to what action to take. Will it be by judicial action or some form of alternative dispute resolution ... 

There is a remarkable amount of excellent catalysis research being conducted in the United States. Unfortunately, at many of the national labs, there is a lack of critical mass in catalysis. Many have perhaps only one to three full-time catalysis researchers along with a few surface scientists, microscopists, and/or synthetic chemists who may include some projects related to catalysis in their portfolio. The effort to get the national laboratories to work closely together is an effort to create a virtual catalysis community where critical mass is achieved. It is also an effort to leverage and capitalize on programs technically related to catalysis, to fully utilize all DOE materials facilities (such as the synchrotron at Brookhaven and neutron diffraction at Los Alamos), and to provide a coherent program that will attract industry s interest. As a team, the labs can also be more effective in raising the profile of catalysis research. If industry finds the laboratories catalysis research useful, it will also likely become an advocate of catalysis research support. 

Design infrastructure company to enable portfolio management and bundle technical competence... 

The probability of success is the product of the probability of technical success, the probability of regulatory success, and the probability of commercial success. The criteria for these probabilities of success need to be clearly defined and characterized so that future PMTs can translate the impact of project progress and decisions on the value of the projects in the portfolio (see section on portfolio optimization using sensitivity analysis). 

The next step is to define what the characteristics are of each service we offer in this portfolio. By these characteristics, we are defining the variables of quality itself. Quality would also include, besides technical aspects, those aspects related to communication skills, which are quite valued in customer satisfaction. The cognitive, behavioral, and emotional aspects of communication are thus considered. 

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