Harnessing Marine Macroalgae for Industrial Purposes in an Australian Context: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Göran Roos, Anthony Cheshire, Sasi Nayar, Steven M. Clarke, Wei Zhang

ISBN13: 9781522555773|ISBN10: 1522555773|EISBN13: 9781522555780

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5577-3

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Roos, Göran, et al. Harnessing Marine Macroalgae for Industrial Purposes in an Australian Context: Emerging Research and Opportunities. IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5577-3

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Roos, G., Cheshire, A., Nayar, S., Clarke, S. M., & Zhang, W. (2019). Harnessing Marine Macroalgae for Industrial Purposes in an Australian Context: Emerging Research and Opportunities. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5577-3

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Roos, Göran, et al. Harnessing Marine Macroalgae for Industrial Purposes in an Australian Context: Emerging Research and Opportunities. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5577-3

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In today’s environmental and economic climate, it is important for businesses to drive development towards sustainable and zero-waste industries, responsibly leveraging renewable low-cost inputs to generate high-value outputs for the global market. Marine macroalgae presents modern businesses with opportunities for the development of a new and vibrant industry sector that largely fulfills these requirements.

Harnessing Marine Macroalgae for Industrial Purposes in an Australian Context: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging perspectives on the theoretical and practical aspects of developing a new business sector within the bio-marine industry. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as competitive advantage, food industry, and production systems, this publication is ideally designed for environmental researchers, business students, engineers, and academicians seeking current research on the economics, regulation, and policy in supporting the development of the macroalgal industry sector in the global market.

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Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies (AEEGT) Book Series

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Preface

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Introduction

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Chapter 1

Understanding the Macroalgal Value Chain: From Production to Post-Harvest Processing (pages 1-21)

Anthony Cheshire, Sasi Nayar, Göran Roos

The macroalgae value chain is similar to other plant-based production chains in that they go through the same chain of production, grow-out, harvesting, processing, utilization, and ultimately disposal. Extraction is a process...

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Chapter 2

Macroalgal Value Chain: Value-Added Products (pages 22-109)

Sasi Nayar, Wei Zhang, Göran Roos

The economic potentional for the algae industry is seemingly limitless. The range of products that are obtained from macroalgae and that we use in our daily lives suggests that, at least in the developed world, we cannot live through...

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Chapter 3

Basis for Competitive Advantage in the Different Application Domains (pages 110-145)

Göran Roos

A competitive advantage can be defined as a condition or circumstance that puts a company in a favorable or superior business position as compared to its competitors. Competitive advantages can be treated within the firm or grounded...

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Chapter 4

Absolute and Comparative Advantages of South Australia in the Macroalgal Value Chain (pages 146-170)

Göran Roos, Anthony Cheshire

A jurisdiction is said to have a comparative advantage in the production of a good if it can produce this good at a lower opportunity cost than another. It can be said that a jurisdiction has an absolute advantage in the production...

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Chapter 5

Conclusions for South Australia From the Analysis (pages 171-179)

Göran Roos, Anthony Cheshire

South Australia has comparative advantages in the early stages of the macroalgal value chain. This provides a foundation for building a macroalgal aquaculture and high-value products processing industry. To make this happen, there...

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Chapter 6

Action Plan for the Development of a South Australian Seaweed Industry (pages 180-200)

Anthony Cheshire

The fundamental challenge in developing a South Australian macroalgae industry sector is that in Australia almost every funding mechanisms that would typically provide support for the under-pinning research and development (e.g., ARC...

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Chapter 7

Understanding Luxury Food for the Asian Markets Through an Intellectual Capital Lens: The Case of the South Australian Food Industry and the Chinese Luxury Food Market (pages 201-254)

Göran Roos

When entering the food segment with new or existing products, it is essential to avoid commoditization and cost-based competition. This becomes especially important for a new player like the South Australian macroalgae-based food...

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Chapter 8

Insights From the Forestry Value Chain's Move Into High-Value Products (pages 255-270)

Göran Roos

It seems that all industrialised sectors grounded in natural biological raw materials go through the same cycle of commencing with low-value-added products. As scientific and technical knowledge develops, this opens the pathway...

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