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 … users and markets. For example, the automobile sector has been participating actively in the ethanol technological …

Ethanol has been recently of great interest worldwide due to two main reasons. First, it is a viable alternative to oil … products, used in light vehicles, which price has been substantially raised in the last years. In second place because ethanol … leadership of ethanol production for the United States, it is internationally recognized as the leading country to develop its …

Government policies increasingly promote ethanol and other biofuels for security, air quality, and climate benefits …. One chapter of this dissertation develops a model that links the distribution of preferences for ethanol to aggregate … price responses and then estimates the model using data from a large number of retail ethanol stations. Ethanol demand is …

blending, or blend above themandate and sell their excess RINs. Because some refiners should have lower ethanol sourcingcosts … than others, it is expected that they will be able to trade RINs, therefore decreasing totalmandate compliance costs.Ethanol … ethanol supply chain may influence the RINs market.This thesis analyzes the role of logistics in the ethanol supply chain …

several years. However, the welfare effect of biofuelpolicies, specifically the ethanol tax credit for corn ethanol, ethanol … examines themarket and welfare effects of biofuel policies in the US, specifically those relating tocorn and sugarcane ethanol … of three papers. In the first paper, a stylized modelof the US miles and fuel market, including ethanol trade is …

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 …

evidence that corn ethanol mandates have created a tight link between oil and agricultural markets. Rather increases in food …

Along with a growing global ethanol market, investment in the production of sugarcane is growing, targeting new … sugarcane and (large-scale) ethanol. The sector is highly concentrated. More recently, however, small ethanol distilleries have …-smallholder experiences be transferred from Brazil to other contexts? Part 1 describes the Brazilian sugarcane and ethanol sector with regards …

analyze the geopolitical importance of oil, nuclear and ethanol industries evolution in Brazil, highlighting trends and …