Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply - Embrapa

The main aspects to be considered are:
• Multidisciplinary technical team. The numerous fields of knowledge
that make up agroenergy require complex research networks constituted
by diverse disciplines and professionals with distinct training, such as
physics; chemistry; biology; biotechnology; agronomic, chemical,
environmental, electric, mechanical, and civil engineering; sociology;
and economics, among others.
• Management of the RD&I and TT Plan. The participants will be organized
into formal institutional partnerships in charge of executing the National
Agroenergy Plan.
• Organizational partnerships. Identification of the actors in RD&I,
agribusiness, or the energy chains for the purpose of setting up the closely
and firmly integrated, long-term institutional and organizational partnerships
required for the success of the activity. The objective of these partnerships
is to systematize agroenergy research. The partners will be private or public
entities known to be involved in S&T research, even when the main focus
of their business is not research and development.
• Strategic partnerships. The strategic partners will collaborate in specific
activities of certain programs or projects and make discrete contributions
to technological development. Both organizational and strategic
partnerships will be tightly articulated in order to support the agroenergy
RD&I activities.
• Mobilization of skills. Networks should be organized so as to ensure
the success of the RD&I program. Such networks should reach beyond
the boundaries of academe to find research partners that can actually
contribute to the overall effort with their management skills, installed
industrial base, market knowledge, etc.
• Entrepreneurship. The RD&I program should consider its contribution
to the development of the national production chains. It should also enable
the return of research funding resources as royalties, or some other
type of remuneration for technology production, technical assistance,
consultancy, or others as contemplated in the Innovation Law.
• Training. The agroenergy research networks will require formal and
informal training because of the dynamic nature of the research areas
involved. The networks will also receive recent graduates for specialized
training and preparation for the RD&I activities, with strong emphasis
on specialized manpower to be supplied directly to the production sector.
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