Innovation America Innovation America Accelerating the growth of the GLOBAL entrepreneurial innovation economy
Founded by Rich Bendis

In just a few days, the largest and broadest collection of speakers and attendees in bioenergy and its related fields comes together at World Biofuels Markets, and in just a few weeks the industry’s leadership gathers at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference.

We do so just as the advanced biofuels sector approaches a crossroads that divides the R&D phase from the commercialization phase.

We note that Clean Tech Reports has announced that biofuels revenues globally grew more than 30 percent last year, to $58 billion globally, and advanced biofuels leaders predicted 44 percent growth for 2011. That’s astonishing, and welcome, but its not always a bed of roses every day in the business of bioenergy.

It is worth noting a series of trends that will challenge, or make easier, that transition from promise to reality.

To read the full, original article click on this link: Biofuels at the crossroads : Biofuels Digest

Author: Jim Lane