Bounding Maine: Top 10 companies targeting Maine’s forest resource for higher-value apps

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Energy Department to industry: Here’s $8M, now (puleez!) innovate down the cost of algae

In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy, through the Bioenergy Technologies Office, announced the selection of three projects to receive up to $8 million,...

Zillions from scrap tires in the Aussie Outback

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State of the Advanced Bioeconomy 2017

At 8:00am Pacific Time on Tuesday of this week, the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference on Next-Gen Technologies and Markets opens in San Francisco with...

Indian Oil’s landmark project for fuels+, from refinery waste CO2: The partner? It’s LanzaTech

In Turkey, at the World Petroleum Congress, India’s flagship national oil company Indian Oil Corporation and carbon recycler LanzaTech unveiled a Statement of Intent...

Fiberight: A deep-dive into the trash to find the cash

This week we reported that Fiberight has secured $70 million for a municipal solid waste center that should be in operation by this May....

Crazy Sexy Gut Health

Gaze at your navel for a second. Use a mirror if you like. Go ahead, it’s OK, I won’t tell anyone. Yes, the navel, the omphalos....

Biotechnology: disrupting the Global Asset Classes of National Security

There’s big, positive news for the advanced bioeconomy this week. A new study, appearing in the peer-reviewed PEERJ, demonstrates for the first time that a particular...

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of April 18th, 2018

The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or even quarterly or monthly rankings and summaries of...

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of April 11th, 2018

The pace of invention and change is just too strong, we’ve realized, to highlight annual or even quarterly or monthly rankings and summaries of...

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