ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the reader with an overview of the design process. It accounts for the special features of the biorenery and illustrates how these may affect the design process. Here, the biorenery is presented, not as a project, but as a strategy. The reader will obtain answers to the following questions: (a) how product and process design tools can support the denition of successful business strategies, (b) how the technology strategy can best serve the business model, and (c) how the model should be incorporated into the decision-making process.
