Table 5
Barriers to production or development of bioproducts, Canada, 2009

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Barriers to production or development of bioproducts, Canada, 2009

Table summary
This table displays the results of barriers to production or development of bioproducts degree of importance and low, calculated using low, medium, high, not applicable and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	Low	Medium	High	Not applicable
	Degree of importance
	percent
Unreliable quantity of biomass	43.4^A	21.7^A	17.9^A	17.0^A
Unreliable quality of biomass	39.2^A	26.2^A	17.4^A	17.2^A
Cost of biomass (e.g., price, transport cost etc.)	14.2^A	33.5^A	41.6^A	10.8^A
Difficulty in entering commercial marketplace	15.4^A	33.3^A	34.1^A	17.3^A
Cost of developing environmental indicators (e.g., lifecycle analysis)	28.7^A	27.2^A	12.4^A	31.7^A
Lack of skilled human resources	32.9^A	37.5^A	9.3^A	20.3^A
Lack of financial capital	9.1^A	26.1^A	53.0^A	11.9^A
Cost and timeliness of regulatory approval	15.7^A	21.0^A	50.3^A	13.0^A
Ongoing regulatory costs/requirements (e.g., on-site requirements for engineers, etc.)	26.2^A	26.4^A	29.3^A	18.1^A
Lack of adequate product standard certification	46.6^A	31.7^A	6.4^A	15.2^A
Other	0.0	2.5^A	10.8^A	86.7^A

Note(s):

Percentages may not add to 100% due to rounding.

Source(s):

Statistics Canada, Bioproducts production and development survey 2009.

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Table 5
Barriers to production or development of bioproducts, Canada, 2009

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