Researchers and industrial companies collaborate to create a new Open Science platform

01-Aug-2017

Along with a number of leading Danish industrial companies, Aarhus University has opted out of the patent rat race in a new collaboration on industrially relevant basic research. Researchers and companies from all over Denmark publish all their results and data on the innovative Open Science ...

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Merck collaborates with the University of Leeds

19-May-2017

Merck, a leading science and technology company, announced today that it has signed a five-year research collaboration agreement with the University of Leeds. The aim is to develop new digital optical applications with liquid crystals under the umbrella of the “Emerging Innovation – LC 2021” ...

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Agreement on development of bio-based polymers

30-Jan-2017

AkzoNobel has signed a framework joint development agreement with specialty chemicals company Itaconix to explore opportunities for the production of bio-based polymers. With this agreement, AkzoNobel will pursue the development and commercialization of bio-based polymers. Itaconix will ...

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Aim to commercialize video-capable, color-reflective displays

11-Jan-2017

Merck announced that it has signed a comprehensive materials development agreement with CLEARink Displays, Inc., aiming to bring CLEARink’s innovative and patented reflective display technology to market by the end of 2017. Merck is a world leader in developing materials and formulations for the ...

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01-Feb-2012

Novozymes announced an exploratory research agreement with Sea6 Energy, an India-based company, to jointly develop a process for the production of biofuels from seaweed. The research alliance will use enzymes to convert seaweed-based carbohydrates to sugar, which can then be fermented to produce ...

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Focus on water chemistry and biomass utilization

07-Oct-2010

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Kemira Oyj are opening a new joint R&D center in São Paulo, Brazil. The R&D center will focus primarily on water chemistry and biomass utilisation applications. The center will start operations in the end of 2010. The new center is a continuum for the ...

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09-Aug-2010

For the first time ever, physicists from the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have observed what occurs inside an atom from which a single electron has been ejected. An international team from the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics, led by ...

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14-Jun-2010

DuPont opened a North American photovoltaic applications lab at its Chestnut Run facility in Wilmington, Del., to support materials development for the fast-growing photovoltaic solar energy market. “The global demand for renewable energy is strong and growing,” CEO Ellen Kullman said. “DuPont ...

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Market launch expected in 2014 in Japan, 2015 in the U.S., the EU and South America

27-May-2010

BASF announced the signing of an agreement with Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd. for the co-development of an exciting new insecticide for the control of piercing and sucking insects, code named ME5343. Under the terms of the agreement, Meiji Seika granted a worldwide, exclusive license (except Japan, ...

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Companies take step towards commercialization of low-carbon biofuels from switchgrass and other energy crops

25-May-2010

Ceres, Inc. and Novozymes have entered a research collaboration to co-develop customized plant varieties and enzyme cocktails for the production of cellulosic biofuel. The companies expect to improve the process of converting biomass to fuel through more effective enzymes and higher quality ...

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