Chemical Industry's Weekly Innovation Round-up, Feb. 9

4:32 AM MST | February 9, 2011 | By ALEX SCOTT

This week’s innovation stories are a mixed bag with high-level policy discussions on innovation in Europe emerging as a key issue for the European chemical industry. The U.K.’s efforts to seed fund 10 biotech projects are a signal of how important innovation is for the current U.K. government. However the amount of cash pledged by the U.K. government to these projects is relatively modest.

Upcoming news this week will include Informex’s announcement of the winners of its sustainable technology prize.

Keyuan Petrochemicals (Ningbo, China) has signed an agreement with Ningbo Institute of Technology, an affiliate of Zhejiang University, to jointly develop technology and commercial applications for K-resin, a styrene butadiene...

The U.K. government, via its Technology Strategy Board (TSB), has agreed to fund feasibility studies for 10 industrial biotechnology projects that aim to convert biomaterials into high value chemicals and polymers.

Cefic has welcomed the European Council’s assertion at a recent summit meeting that the council will take a longer term and linked up perspective when it comes to policies relating to energy and innovation. The meeting, during the past week, which was...

Gelest (Morrisville, PA) has signed a licensing agreement with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U of I; Champaign, IL) to produce and market organosilicon compounds for use in cross-coupling reactions,

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