Managing R&D risk in renewable energy: Biofuels vs. alternate technologies

AgBioForum

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 375-381

  Rausser, Gordon ^a   Stevens, Reid ^a   Torani, Kiran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Portfolio analysis; R D risk; Renewable energy technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79851480032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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