Tag: bioeconomy

Solving Ag’s Supply Chain Challenges: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to FFAR

March 6, 2022 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research builds unique partnerships to support innovative science addressing today’s food and agriculture challenges. If you missed ABLC Connect last week, check out this slide guide on SARA – sustainable, affordable, reliable, available supply-chains and raw materials supplies through public-private partnerships for agricultural research and creating bioeconomy ecosystems that […]

Bridgestone’s New Feedstock for Natural Rubber: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to Guayule

February 28, 2022 | Jim Lane

Guayule is a native plant to the Chihuhuan Desert along the U.S./Mexico border and accumulates rubber in the bark layer, making it ideal for tire companies like Bridgestone. Along with co-products like bagasse, resin and hypoallergenic latex, guayule has other advantages to standard Hevea natural rubber. We’ve combined two slide guides into one – a […]

Who’s ahead in the race for #1?: The Digest’s 2022 Multi-Slide Guide to The 50 Hottest Projects in the Advanced Bioeconomy

February 20, 2022 | Jim Lane

Who’s hot, what are they building, where, how and with whom? Where’s your opportunity in the bioeconomy boom? If you missed last week’s ABLC CONNECT, check out these slides highlighting the 50 hottest projects in the advanced bioeconomy. Let the countdown begin!

Yesterday is Always Tomorrow for the Global Bioeconomy

December 13, 2021 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

By Douglas L. Faulkner, President, Leatherstocking LLC and the “Cleantech Conservative” Special to The Digest No, I’m not repeating here the usual biting critique from anti-biofuels advocates about an industry always promising a better mañana, but never delivering today. Instead, this title summarizes my historical perspective as a veteran of decades of the bio-wars, taking […]

Irelands kicks off Irish Bioeconomy Week with a series of maps

October 19, 2020 | Meghan Sapp

In Ireland, a series of maps released by Teagasc each day from October 19-23 as part of Irish Bioeconomy Week will answer questions including: What is the bioeconomy? Is it relevant to me, my sector, my business, the place where I live or my farm? What is unique about it? How does Ireland compare relative […]

European Circular Bioeconomy Fund makes first two investments

October 1, 2020 | Meghan Sapp

In Germany, CBF Management GmbH announced the first closing of the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF). ECBF is the first venture fund exclusively focused on the bioeconomy and the circular bioeconomy in Europe. With a target size of EUR250 million, to which the European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed EUR100 million, ECBF will be an […]

BIC says bioeconomy contributed EUR750B to European economy in 2017

September 7, 2020 | Meghan Sapp

In Belgium, the often-underrated bio-based industries continue their ascent marking a total contribution of 750 billion EUR to the European economy in 2017, a notable increase of 50 billion EUR (+>7%) compared to 2016. The nova-Institute report commissioned by the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) also indicated that the bio-based industries employ 3.6 million people in […]

Yokogawa Innovation Switzerland launched to invest in bioeconomy

August 3, 2020 | Meghan Sapp

In Switzerland, Yokogawa Electric Corporation has established Yokogawa Innovation Switzerland GmbH to build a strong base for its bioeconomy business through the provision of quick and proactive market research and development activities, and the introduction of cutting-edge biotechnologies. The new subsidiary was officially registered on June 26, and business operations will start from August. The […]

Sayings and images from 12 years traveling on the bioeconomy road

July 28, 2019 | Jim Lane

Today, the Digest turns 12. Since the Digest was launched in July 2007, we’ve had the privilege of telling the amazing success story of the bioeconomy— new applications, companies, and platform technologies have been pouring out of research labs and many of them are deploying rapidly at commercial scale. If you’ve seen the rise of […]

European bioeconomy experts call for pragmatic discussion of winners and losers

July 10, 2019 | Meghan Sapp

In Finland, Xinhua news agency reports that European bioeconomy experts are calling for a pragmatic discussion regarding the winners and losers of a future bioeconomy rather than pretending that everyone will be better off, as that scenario is impossible, and some sectors will suffer. Already competition over waste streams has popped up as circular economy […]