Biofuels: The Next Killer App for Biotech
February 16th, 2010 (6pm - 9pm)
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Palo Alto, CA, United States
Topic: Energy, Renewables, Biomass
Event Type: Networking/Meetup
Tags: Alternative Fuels, BayBIO, biofuel, Biofuels, Biotechnology, CleanTech, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Venture Lab, VLAB
Comments Off New entrepreneurial opportunities are opening up as biotechnology expands beyond drugs to the next killer app: biofuels. Biofuels represent a burgeoning new field for entrepreneurs, filled with promise, both commercially and socially. But there are also many challenges, ranging from technology pathfinding, to the evolution of new industry-wide value chains, to funding radical production and distribution scale-up. An interactive panel of industry-leading speakers will explore the potential of biofuels to address energy security and global warming, the range of opportunities for building new businesses, and specifically how each of their companies are working to meet the challenge.
Some of the many unique issues surrounding biofuel start-ups to be discussed include: – Low-cost start-up strategies – Limits of venture funding and the role of scale-up and commercialization partnerships – Dynamics of collaboration between biotech start-ups and global energy companies – Investor exit strategies vs. the creation of fully integrated energy companies – Evolution of a disruptive value-chain ecology for industry-wide scale-up – Creation of open fuel standards to enable market competition vs. drop-in fuels – Lifecycle carbon and water footprints of different technology platforms – Informatics and genomics as exponential drivers for biofuels development
Speakers will include founders from Bay Area biofuel start-ups, clean tech VCs, and representatives from big energy and and government regulatory bodies.
This event is being co-sponsored by BayBIO, the voice of the Bay Area biotechnology community, and CleanTech.org, the preeminent local investment community focused on game-changing technologies.
URL: http://www.vlab.org
Organizer(s): MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB)
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