The transition to a bio-economy: Emerging from the oil age

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 369-375

  Kircher, Manfred ^a  

^a Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie eVCLIB 2021 ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY BOARDS; GLOBAL SCALE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 84863772895     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: 19321031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1352     Document Type: Article

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