In Part 1, we followed six discoveries that changed the way we think about project failure. Failure proved to be a trajectory, not a condition. Problems interacted. Viable futures could be preserved. Sequence mattered. Those observations could be represented within a formal mathematical framework. And, perhaps most surprisingly, fewer than 5 percent of the failed […]
For years, we have watched promising bioeconomy projects disappear. Some had celebrated technologies. Some had strong management teams, blue-chip partners, government support, attractive markets and hundreds of millions of dollars of announced investment. Many had favorable techno-economic analyses. Many had technologies judged sufficiently mature to proceed. And yet they failed. Others, facing apparently formidable obstacles, […]
Today, The Daily Digest is releasing The Digest’s 100 Hottest Projects in the Bioeconomy— 2026 Edition, our annual benchmark profiling and ranking the world’s leading commercial-scale bioeconomy assets. This year’s rankings focuses on execution—curating benchmark facilities that have achieved Final Investment Decisions (FID), financial close, or construction milestones across 2025–2026. Spanning more than 15 countries across North […]
In Florida, The Daily Digest announced the Bioeconomy 500 for 2026, recognizing 500 individuals whose leadership is helping transform the bioeconomy from scientific and commercial possibility into projects, products and industries. The honorees span the full architecture of the advanced bioeconomy: scientists and engineers, entrepreneurs and executives, project developers and operators, financiers, policy leaders, feedstock […]
In Florida, the Daily Digest announced the 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy for 2026, as voted by the Digest’s readers and invited selectors. For the first time, EVERY took the #1 slot in the annual poll. Avantium takes the #2 position, followed by LanzaTech at #3, Strategic Biofuels at #4 and Itaconix at #5. […]
This week, Again announced the acquisition of Genomatica, uniting Again’s cutting-edge biomanufacturing scale-up capabilities with Geno’s world-class AI discovery and design platform. So, Rome bought Greece. That is one way to think about Again’s acquisition of Genomatica, announced this week, bringing together one of industrial biotechnology’s most ambitious new scale-up companies with one of its […]
Fort Drum Service Plaza sits an hour southeast of Disney World along the Florida Turnpike, marked by a statue of Mickey Mouse that has signaled to a generation of children that the Magic Kingdom is near. At seven-fifteen in the morning, it plays host to what must surely be the longest line for Dunkin’ coffee […]
The Green Lantern is fundamentally different from those other superheroes. Superman’s power is locked in his alien biology; Tony Stark’s genius is welded into his iron suit. Their powers, talents, and machinery belong essentially to them. But Green Lantern is not a person—it is a platform. There was a Green Lantern before Hal Jordan, and […]
The photograph at the top of this column might puzzle you. Some will describe it as a slag heap. Others will joke that I photographed the Poldark scenery the wrong way round. A mining engineer might see traces of copper still waiting to be recovered; a battery executive might see lithium; an ecologist might see […]
By Ramani Narayan Special to The Digest Words are the building blocks of public trust. For a marketplace to function efficiently, the language used on packaging must carry a clear, universally understood meaning. Yet, deep within the machinery of the 2026 Farm Bill, a seemingly minor provision threatens to muddy the waters. Section 9004 in […]
