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Author:   Sergio Luiz Monteiro Salles-Filho (Professor, Department of Science and Technology Policy, University of Campinas, Brazil) ,  Luis Augusto Barbosa Cortez (Professor, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, University of Campinas, Brazil) ,  José Maria Ferreira Jardim da Silveira (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Campinas, Brazil) ,  Sergio Trindade
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780128031414

ISBN 10:   0128031417
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   13 June 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Ethanol Industry: Surpassing Uncertainties and Looking Forward 2. Ethanol Use in the United States: Status, Threats and the Potential Future 3. Political Orientations, State Regulation and Biofuels in the Context of the Food–Energy–Climate Change Trilemma 4. Innovation Systems of Ethanol in Brazil and the United States: Making a New Fuel Competitive 5. Innovation in the Brazilian Bioethanol Sector: Questioning Leadership 6. Policies Towards Bioethanol and Their Implications: Case Brazil 7. Ethanol Production Technologies in the US:Status and Future Developments 8. Technological Foresight of the Bioethanol Case 9. China’s Fuel Ethanol Market 10. Fuel Ethanol in Africa: A Panoramic View With an Accent on Bénin and Kenya 11. Future of Global Bioethanol: An Appraisal of Results,Risk and Uncertainties Conclusions: Futures of Bioethanol—Main Findings and Prospects

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Sergio Luiz Monteiro Salles-Filho is currently head of the Bioethanol Innovation Management Lab (NAGISE) at the University of Campinas, Brazil, where he is full professor at the department of Science and Technology Policy, and where he also founded in 1995 the Laboratory of Studies on the Organisation of Research and Innovation, leading a 20-people research group. As a researcher, Prof. Salles-Filho has dedicated his academic life to the study of STI policy and management, with particular emphasis on policy design, R&D planning and management, multidimensional impact evaluation and foresight studies towards national development and economic and social growth. Luis Augusto Barbosa Cortez full professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering of University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. He started his academic career as a B.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering at the same university, moving on to a M. Sc. at Université Laval, Québec, Canada, and a PhD at Texas Tech University, USA. At Unicamp, he has coordinated the Interdisciplinary Center of Energy Planning and research projects in bioenergy, such as a study on sugarcane ethanol expansion in Brazil, the São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp). José Maria Ferreira Jardim da Silveira is a professor at the department of Economics of University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, where he is also a researcher at the Center of Agriculture and Environmental Research (NEA), a member of the scientific council of the Interdisciplinary Center of Energy Research (NIPE), and a member of the board of the International Consortium of Applied Bioenergy Research (ICABR). As an Agronomist, Master and PhD in Economics, he has developed and supervised several multidisciplinary research projects in these areas, and currently develops his research in partnership with the BE-BASIC project of the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, as part of São Paulo Research Foundation’s (Fapesp) Bioenergy Program BIOEN. Maria da Graca Derengowski Fonseca is a full professor at the Economics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, as well as principal of the BioEconomy Research Group and the Infosucro Observatory of Sugar and Ethanol at that same university. She has dedicated her academic career to Economics, on which she has a B.Sc. and a PhD, and Innovation, as Visiting Reserch Fellow at the Centre for Competition and Innovation at the University of Manchester, UK.

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