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BTN
aims to enhance international cooperation among bamboo researchers
and industries through a clear focus on new technologies and the
global market coupled with a policy of open information exchange.
Research on silviculture, biotechnology and industrial
processing of bamboo has not yet been integrated fully into the
realms of the economy and ecology.
BTN will foster added value by optimizing scientific
networking towards the coordination, exploitation and dissemination
of bamboo research in four areas, namely: biology; silviculture;
industrial processing; and technology transfer.
BTN
seeks to facilitate the transfer of knowledge of bamboo and to
enhance cooperation between researchers and users. It endeavors to
guide researchers towards market and consumer needs and to inform
industry about scientific and technical advances related to bamboo.
BTN's
long term goals are:
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to
create a knowledge infrastructure
that will redirect research towards high
value-added industrial applications of bamboo
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to
formulate guidelines for future research and the development
of new research project concepts.
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to
build bridges and create bonds between industries and bamboo
researchers.
BTN
strives to build a stronger
cooperation between industry and bamboo researchers in order to
exchange ideas about what is technically possible and what is
commercially beneficial.
BTN
will pursue an open policy for exchanging knowledge and information
in order to increase the economic possibilities of bamboo and to
valorize much of the research that has already been completed and
that is ongoing.
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