GreenCentre CanadaA New Model for the Commercialization of

Green Chemistry Technologies

GreenCentre CanadaOverview

• GreenCentre Canada (GCC) is North America’s first, all-inclusive, Green Chemistry innovation ecosystem.

• Working closely with industry, GCC develops, de-risks and commercializes Green Chemistry discoveries.

• For industry, GCC is a gateway to Canada’s premier Green Chemistry technologies.

• Green chemistry, is a chemical philosophy encouraging the design of products and processes that reduce waste, eliminate costly end-of-the-pipe treatments; provide safer products; and reduce use of energy and resources.

What is Green Chemistry?

Canadian Green ChemistryImpact Across the Chemical Industry

What Academics can deliver: •Discoveries• Bench-test proof of utility• Grams of sample

What Industry wants: • Discoveries• Development & Optimization• Field-test proof of utility• Kilograms of sample

The Commercialization Gap

GCC represents a comprehensive and collaborative approach to commercializing Green Chemistry technologies.

People Infrastructure Capital

GreenCentre CanadaOvercoming the Gap

Technology Screening & Due Diligence

• Technical assessment• Assessment of the

intellectual property landscape

• Recommendation to screening committee

End-User & Market Analysis

• Identification of potential customers and markets

• Green assessment vs. incumbent technology

• Creation of value propositions

Product & Application Development

• Design and preparation of application-specific product candidates

• Application and test development

• Protection of new IP

Technology Screening & Due Diligence

• Scale-up of product candidates

• Application development & testing at customer

• IP protection

GCC Hand-Off

• Quantification of business opportunity

• Out-license to established company or start-up, or

• Additional pilot manufacturing (e.g. Sarnia BIC)

Albonia IT

Polycorp

Pressure Chemical

ResourceExtraction Petrochem.

Bulk Chem.&

Materials

Fine Chem.&

Pharma

ConsumerGoods

ManufacturingRetail

• GCC will work with its industry partners to develop Canada’s Green Chemistry technologies.

GreenCentre CanadaWorking with Industry

Benefits to GCC Industry Partners

• first look at Canadian Green Chemistry innovations

• participation in GCC governance• access to and development of human capital• “one stop shop” to Green expertise from across

Canada• enhanced chemical value chain relationships• plug-and-play technology development• vehicle to leverage technology development

funding• enhancement of corporate Green image

• GCC will work with TTOs from across Canada to develop, de-risk and commercialize breakthrough Green Chemistry discoveries.

• Our industry members provide valuable insight and represent eventual technology receptors.

• We transform technologies into business opportunities.

Working with Canada’s ResearchersSuccess through Collaboration

GreenCentre CanadaA New Model for the Commercialization of

Green Chemistry Technologies