Academic institutions and small and large companies are now talking about building a more sustainable future, where technologies and products are created with consideration to the environmental and social impact they may have. Green Chemistry provides such an opportunity to produce and support innovative and evolutionary, environmentally-aware research and development efforts, focused toward developing and sustaining future industrial processes and products based on positive environmental and economic advances. The question remains whether one can actually make money and sustain a business with a green chemistry business model. This presentation will discuss our efforts to transition from academic research, to university-incubated start-up, to full scale commercialization using the extraction and production of chitin as example.

Green chemistry as a business model: it is sustainable

2019 Spring National Meeting

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