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Acknowledgements

This study would not have been possible without the support of NEOMA Business
School (formerly Reims Management School), which hosts the Chair in Industrial
Bioeconomy, the public authorities that contribute financially to its work
(Champagne-Ardenne Regional Council, General Council Marne De ´partement,
Reims Metropolitan Area) and the industrial organisations that were willing for
the Bazancourt-Pomacle biorefinery to be the subject of this study.
We would like to thank the members of the Chair’s strategy committee for their
encouragement and enthusiasm: Mme Catherine Quintallet and M. Richard Lubin,
M. Edouard Kson and Mme Alexa Wadlow, M. Bertrand Rigal and Mme Sophie
Dewaleyne, M. Dominique Dutartre, M. Yvon Le He ´naff and M. Jean-Marie
Chauvet.
We would particularly like to thank M. Jean-Marie Chauvet, who helped us
smooth over the occasional disturbance caused in the daily life of the companies
concerned by outside observation.
Data collection, both qualitative and quantitative, would not have been possible
without the agreement of the Presidents and Management of the two agricultural
cooperatives that founded the biorefinery, together with that of their site managers
and staff: M. Olivier de Bohan, M. Pascal Prot, M. Alain Commissaire, M. Je ´ro ˆme
Bignon, M. Alain Le Floch, M. Benoı ˆt Lalizel, M. Michel Mangion, M. Patrick
Piot, M. Olivier Parent, Mme Marie-Jose ´e Attou, M. Fre ´de ´ric Martel, M. Benoı ˆt
Tre ´meau, M. Philippe Aubry, M. Christian Belloy, M. David Merlet, Mme
Fre ´de ´rique Lafosse, M. Alexis Rannou, Mme Marie-Adeline Levy, M. Alexis
Karageorgis and Mme Se ´verine Garnier.
We would like to thank Mme Dominique Pareau, M. Bernard Mary, M. Barrie
Stevens, M. Vincent Barbin, M. Patrick Demouy and M. Fre ´de ´ric Croizier whose
comments enabled us to improve the contents of this book.
We would like to thank Mark Holdsworth, our translator, for the thorough and
detailed work that he accomplished in a very short space of time.
The initiators and promoters of the Chair at the time of Reims Management
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School, Francois Bonvalet and Svetlana Serdukov, will find in this publication the
first result of their efforts. We thank them for their foresight and their commitment
to founding this Chair.

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