Genencor vs OriginOil: Who's the Best?

Background: This is a first round, West Regional match-up between #6 seed Genencor and #11 seed OriginOil in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest.

Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here.

The winner gets: Most votes advances to the second-round (round of 32), and a shot at the Biofuels Sweet Sixteen.

The loser: Goes home.

Laurels: Genencor is the 18th ranked company in the 2010-11 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy poll. OriginOil is currently #33.

The match-up: A David vs Goliath match-up. Genencor – a long-time leader in industrial biotechnology, with a hot new cellulosic biofuels product in Accellerase Trio. OriginOil, an algae-to-fuels technology developer that has recently acquired a hot new customer in MBD Energy, in Australia, for its algal growth and extraction systems.

OriginOil’s complete Hot 50 / Transformative Technologies profile is here.