The biofuel industry is highly interdisciplinary with technological complexity across the full value-chain and product instability from a nascent and risk-adverse market. Technology developers, investors, and service providers all face the same challenges: hunting for answers to complex issues and experiencing information overload. Due to significant advances in information technology over the past few decades, current access to �information� is not a key critical obstacle. Rather, today as biofuel professionals we are constrained by our ability to find that �needle� of critical information in the proverbial �'haystack�of content sources. Through a series of industry surveys and interviews we have captured a snapshot of the biofuel industry and it's associated information needs. In this presentation, using a series of case-studies, we will provide a synopsis of the challenges faced by small companies in this marketplace and the solutions they found.

Information challenges faced by small businesses in the biofuel marketplace

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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