What you will learn
- Understand and evaluate strategic, technological, and operational aspects of running a biobased business
- Understand the basics of biobased materials and their conversion to useful products and services
- Identify factors that affect biobased investments and innovations
- Create business strategies in a biobased economy
- Design and evaluate biobased supply chains using quantitative methods
Program Overview
Expert instruction
4 graduate-level courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
6 months
16 - 22 hours per week
Discounted price: $734.40
Pre-discounted price: $816USD
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Courses in this program
WageningenX's Business and Operations for a Circular Bio-Economy MicroMasters® Program
- Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Approach
- From Fossil Resources to Biomass: A Chemistry Perspective
- Business Strategy and Operations in a Biobased Economy
- Capstone Business and Operations for a Circular Bio-Economy
- Certificate & Credit Pathways
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Program endorsements
With the market shifting towards a stronger biobased & sustainable economy, Croda will increasingly focus on novel developments of biobased ingredients. This MicroMasters program will provide a good basis to develop the required knowledge and skills to support these sustainable innovations.
Drs Hans Ridderikhoff , Global Research & Technology Manager Smart Materials, Croda
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