Understanding Biofuel Supply Chains
Resources listed below have been created to assist in developing the practical and written skills required to:
- Research a technology-based biofuel business
- Understand stakeholder priorities and agendas
- Interrogate stakeholders using appropriate techniques including face-to-face interview
- Analyse information and data to produce a publishable consolidated findings report
They have been assembled for carrying out a post-graduate research project “Business Support Training in the Biotechnology Sector” as well, and we hope that on completing the course successfully you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the aims and objectives of a given biotechnology-based business
- Explain why biotechnology projects fail, the nature of critical success factors and change motors for innovation projects
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to source and interrogate data for integrity
- Identify and classify stakeholders according to interest/level of engagement with the business
- Demonstrate an understanding of effective interviewing processes and interrogation methodologies as well as the practical skills required to apply them
- Prepare and implement all the steps of an interview with a stakeholder
- Demonstrate how to consolidate information based on the research and interview processes to add value to a report
The resources include: