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Building on the success of the previous editions, the third edition of Marketing Research: Tools and Techniques provides an accessible and engaging insight into marketing research. Based on the concept of the Marketing Research Mix, the text is organized around the core themes of research preparation, data collection, analysis and communication of findings, and how skills and techniques are used in different research contexts.

The author adopts a sound balance between theory and practice and demonstrates how marketing concepts can be carried out in reality, and which methods are most appropriate for particular types of research. The new edition has been fully revised to reflect the wealth of digital developments and contains new case studies on renowned commercial brands such as BMW, Google, McDonalds, Whiskas, Tesco, The National Student Survey (NSS), Eurobarometer and BMI Healthcare. Supported by a full range of pedagogical features, the author enables students to understand the issues involved in carrying out research and the potential pitfalls to be aware of, thereby ensuring a clear understanding of the overall subject. The book is accompanied by a comprehensive Online Resource Centre which offers the following resources for students and lecturers: For students: Multiple choice questions Questionnaire wizard Online version of Market Researcher's Toolbox Link to clips of author summarising contents of each chapter on YouTube Web links For registered adopters of the text: PowerPoint presentation Illustrations from the book.

Nigel Bradley, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Westminster Sadly, Nigel Bradley passed away as this edition was going to press. Nigel was dedicated to his work in an extraordinary way. Author of Marketing Research and Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Westminster Business School, he cared passionately about the teaching and learning process, always wanting to deliver the best possible resources for lecturers and students. He worked closely and collaboratively with OUP, with outstanding efficiency and seeking to innovate wherever possible. He was a pleasure to work with and will be sadly missed.

We seek to balance society’s need to provide sustainable ecological protection with the need to maintain stable economic growth and development. We believe that the vast scientific toolbox, combined with the human intellect and creative spark, can provide pioneering solutions to some of the big challenges we face today. To that end, we are working with plants, fungi, and bacteria in combination with innovative chemistry to produce next-generation energy sources and sustainable industrial processes. In addition, we are exploring the use of microorganisms for carbon sequestration and for the production of chemicals using electricity derived from renewable energy sources. As part of our core mission, we at the EBI are also committed to assessing the potential social, economic, and environmental impacts of our research, especially with regard to greenhouse gas emissions and the use of land and water resources.

The Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), a partnership institution at the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was formed in 2007 with sponsorship from the global energy company BP. The EBI was created with the purpose of drawing upon the breadth of scientific expertise and core research capabilities across the partnership institutions to address some of the big challenges facing industry today.

Since then, more than 1,000 researchers have been engaged in EBI investigations, including professors, postdoctoral scientists, staff, and students. At the Energy Biosciences Building we have created a shared working environment that facilitates horizontal integration and interdisciplinary collaboration between different research groups.

What drives our work is the commitment to develop sustainable, economically viable, and environmentally responsible options for the energy and chemical needs of future generations. We also focus on the societal, economic, and environmental impact of our work through life cycle assessment and deterministic modeling. More than 75 programs and projects have already been funded by the EBI within a broad spectrum of issues both technical and social.

Going forward, we are looking to further expand our research in the areas of carbon sequestration, sustainable chemical production, and water use mitigation. These are imposing challenges, but with the knowledge and experience of top scientists from a multiplicity of disciplines, as well as access to some of the finest research facilities in the world, the EBI is in a unique position to deliver new and lasting solutions. Looking forward, the revised mission is an expansion and reimagining of the original Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), which was formed in 2007 in response to a solicitation by BP for an academic organization that would “explore the application of modern biology to the energy sector.” Since that time, BP has provided $35M/year3 in support of the EBI.

The University of California Berkeley (UCB) is the lead organization with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as sub-awardees under the same contract. UCB and UIUC committed to provide more than 100,000 square feet of modern laboratory space to co-locate EBI researchers and BP scientists and engineers, and to provide access to all research facilities and services of the partner institutions. At its height, in 2014, the EBI engaged more than 100 professors and LBL senior scientists as research leaders, and employed approximately 250 graduate students, postdocs and technicians and approximately 30 staff members who provided services that included administrative tasks, technical analysis and planning, IP management, analytical chemistry services, laboratory management, health and safety compliance, and field site management. The majority of EBI investigators in 2014 were chemists, chemical engineers, microbiologists, biochemists, and molecular biologists.

However, the EBI investigators also included economists, ecologists, environmental scientists, mechanical engineers, civil engineers, plant biologists, agronomists, law professors, and political scientists that facilitate a whole-system analysis of problems and opportunities. Over the course of the decade, these investigators produced approximately 800 publications and 60 patents. Based on this strong foundation provided by our EBI experiences, the revision of the EBI began in 2016 by seeking participation of additional corporate partners. The key to EBI is not a specific disciplinary focus but, rather, a commitment to creating value for the industrial partners in a way that is compatible with the mission and values of the academic partners.

Many academic organizations aspire to achieve productive collaboration with industry but fail to deliver for a variety of reasons; the EBI has achieved that goal over the last decade and it will continue to build on that success with new industrial partners. A description of the outcomes of the BP-EBI collaboration is beyond the scope of this document but is available as part of a more detailed discussion with prospective partners. Some examples are provided Appendix I. One reason for success was undoubtedly the scale of funding and the long duration of the contract. These factors facilitated recruitment of outstanding scientists and engineers to the organization, supported a proactive full-time management team,and facilitated provision of higher quality services than are normally available in Universities. The continuous engagement of highly capable and supportive leaders has helped shape an innovative and dynamic portfolio. A second factor has been the stationing of a small team of sponsor engineers in the EBI.

Members of the BP team became personally acquainted with all EBI investigators and participated in all formal and many informal planning and evaluation meetings in the EBI. This intimacy provided a powerful feedback loop in which ideas were vetted for potential utility at an early stage and by using approaches, such as Aspen+ process modeling, that are familiar to industry but seldom if ever used to evaluate academic research objectives. The EBI leadership understands that close interactions between industrial partners and academic researchers serve to significantly amplify useful research outcomes. Building on the success of this model, new corporate partners should expect to station one or more employees in EBI.

The academic partners have capabilities that significantly exceed the needs of a single corporate partner. The scope of challenges and the potential for research to shape the advanced energy economy is large. Therefore, we wish to broaden our scope from the original EBI mandate by inviting additional companies to partner with us and build on our successful formula. The EBI academic partners have opened up the organization to participation by additional industrial partners using mirrored standardized agreements. We have structured a four-tiered model that will suit a range of sponsorship levels.

Regardless of sponsorship level all sponsors have equal access across the EBI partnership institutions. The experience gained over the past decade of collaboration with BP will enable value creation for additional corporate sponsors with similar interests. Corporate sponsors may choose to support as much or as little research as they wish. However, to ensure the most valuable outcomes, all corporate sponsors are encouraged to embed one or more employees within EBI. The industry partners contribute a pre-agreed annual amount to a common fund that is used to support core services provided by EBI (e.g.

An analytical chemistry service lab, IP, IT, and media support, and a management team). Additionally, each of the partners may choose to support any amount of proprietary research in EBI or to syndicate with other EBI industry partners on a project-by-project basis if desired. Pre-identified proprietary projects and data can be firewalled as necessary using physical separation, secured data management, and standardized non-disclosure agreements.

EBI management will facilitate recruitment and management of scientists and engineers for both common fund projects and proprietary projects. EBI can provide proprietary laboratory and office space for scientists and engineers employed by the industry partners. These teams will have equal access to all facilities and services of the academic partners. EBI provides unparalleled access to a very large and diverse pool of science and engineering excellence under one contractual roof with an established track record of creating step-out innovation and insights for an industrial partner. University of California Berkeley • 110 research centers, of which 19 are focused on various aspects of energy. BIOMASS DEPOLYMERIZATION, Bright O.

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11-21, 2008., Gal Hochman, Steven Sexton, David Zilberman, Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization, 6, 2008. It is not enough to simply produce a biofuel or chemical in a novel way; as researchers we have a responsibility to ensure that our innovations impact our environment and society in a positive way. This program was created to examine the economic, social, and environmental impacts of developed processes to better inform decision-making by stakeholders and policymakers who seek to promote the development of the renewable energy and sustainable chemistry sectors. Scientists involved in this program analyze the effects of different processes and policies on land and water use, greenhouse gas emissions, soil carbon, and biodiversity, and they also assess the economic viability of emerging technologies. The energy sector is the second largest consumer of water after agriculture, currently accounting for 20 billion gallons per day or about 17% of global water usage, and this number is expected to rise in the coming decades. Wapking Songs Download Ramleela more. Fossil fuel processing and biofuel production are both water-intensive, meaning that any improvements in water use efficiency of these processes would have a significant beneficial impact.

To address this issue, we are working on the development of drought-tolerant and water-efficient feedstocks for biofuel production, one-pot processes that minimize water use during feedstock treatment and biofuel synthesis, and salt-tolerant microbial strains that can use seawater instead of freshwater for industrial production of fuels and chemicals. More than 90% of the industrial organic chemicals used to make plastics, solvents, detergents, lubricants, synthetic fibers, herbicides, pharmaceuticals, and numerous other essential products are currently derived from oil and natural gas. Many of these products are recalcitrant to degradation and constitute a significant source of environmental pollution. As we transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, we must also strive to find more sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based chemical precursors. This program aims to use biological systems to harness electricity derived from renewable energy sources in order to drive the production of green chemicals.

Carbon sequestration is a promising strategy for mitigating carbon dioxide emissions resulting from human activity. Current sequestration technologies tend to focus on the conversion of gaseous carbon dioxide into a supercritical fluid for injection into geological formations, which is an energy-intensive process.

Research in this area seeks to make use of natural carbon fixation enzymes as well as engineered pathways to more efficiently transform carbon dioxide into stable liquids or solids suitable for long-term storage. Although the use of renewable energy sources is projected to increase substantially over the next two decades, the International Energy Agency predicts that global oil consumption will continue to rise until at least 2040. Thus, reliance on fossil fuels as a major source of energy will likely continue in the near future, necessitating the development of new strategies to lessen the impacts of fossil fuel use. The goal of this program, which involves microbiologists, engineers, geologists, chemists, and modelers, is to improve the sustainability of the processes involved in oil recovery, while enhancing environmental protection, safety, and efficiency. The prevailing approach to biofuels production is to convert plant sugars from traditional food crops into ethanol using centuries-old fermentation practices.

This approach has proved inadequate for the large-scale production of biofuels and may create food security issues by diverting food crops toward biofuel production. Researchers at the EBI are searching for more efficient ways to use non-food biomass like cellulose as the starting material for fuel production as well as for ways to boost the concentration of fuel produced and improve on the efficiency of the process.

Research in this program involves work with plants, fungi, and bacteria and is focused on four key areas: feedstock development, biomass depolymerization, biofuels production, and waste management. Given the intermittent nature of existing and emerging renewable energy technologies such as solar and wind, there is a need to develop more versatile and sustainable large-scale systems for energy storage. The lithium-ion batteries that currently dominate the market may not be ideal for these applications due to the high financial and environmental costs associated with their manufacture. Therefore, we are exploring the development of novel sustainable catalysts for solar to chemical conversion in order to produce high-energy-density, non-toxic, non-flammable electroactive compounds. These compounds could then be safely transported and/or stored for use in next-generation flow batteries, which combine the versatility of a liquid fuel with the efficiency of an electrochemical device.