, Brazilian ethanol is produced from sugarcane. The Brazilian route shows up as much more competitive and much less pollution … regarding the country’s innovation system in the sugarcane sector, including sugar and ethanol mills, industrial goods suppliers …Ethanol has been recently of great interest worldwide due to two main reasons. First, it is a viable alternative to oil …

assessed in terms of the levels of physical-assets performance it presents across three-defined ethanol production clusters …. Results show similar levels of asset performance presented by the in-operation ethanol enterprises, despite regional features … working directly with grid-connected biomass-energy plants in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Additionally, the case study presents …

in prices, which has given way to ethanol production by other sources of raw materials like sugarcane. Sugarcane ethanol … leading the way in sugarcane ethanol, and its neighbors in Central America are following suit. In 2006, the Central American … free. Those countries have extreme ethanol growth potential with low production costs and large sources of sugarcane. This …

This study summarizes research on farm-, local-, regional-, and macro-level economic effects of ethanol production …. Given current production levels, the ethanol production industry annually employees approximately 3,500 workers, pays out … government incentive payments. Projections for a 60 million gallon per year ethanol plant indicate an annual increase in corn …

trend toward corn oilextraction in ethanol plants. At one extreme, one scenario eliminates all support to the biofuelsector … when the energy price is low, while the other extreme assumes no distributionbottleneck in ethanol demand growth when the … energy price is high. The third scenarioconsiders a pure market force driving ethanol demand growth because of the high …

supply and demand for ethanol in Brazil, considering the period from 1995 to 2006. The method of analysis used was a … environment (Kyoto Protocol) and the increasing demand for flex cars have highlighted the role of ethanol - a totally renewable … price in the market of ethanol, ceteris paribus. The results of the model were significant, but what is interesting is that …

innovation systems, this study explores the process of innovation of biofuel ethanol in the U.S. and in Brazil. It uses "process … theory" to build a narrative of historical events that represent the innovation trajectory of ethanol biofuel in the U.S. and … in Brazil over a period of thirty years. The data is drawn from newspaper articles from the New York Times, Washington …

subsidies in order to support their production and use. In the USA, the EPAis in charge of establishing mandates to obligated … in orimported by the USA. This number is the accounting mechanism with which the obligated party,blenders and refiners … blending, or blend above themandate and sell their excess RINs. Because some refiners should have lower ethanol sourcingcosts …

security and independence, Brazil has supported the production and use of ethanol. Brazil's leadership in this market reveals … complex inter-linkages between ethanol, sugarcane, sugar and fossil fuels. These sectors have been growing an average of 14 …Disenchantment with the Washington Consensus has led to an emphasis on growth diagnostics. In the case of Brazil, the …