The four-stage catalytic process transforms sugars derived from biomass into alkanes that have almost the exact chemical structure as traditionally produced biofuel.
Among historians of capitalism and technology, the process of engineering--a method of repeatable creation derived from the 17th-century discovery and exploitation of the scientific method--gets much of the credit for our world.
This shift in thinking around the nature of the relationship and the potential value derived from it (that competitive edge) has them engaging earlier in their process, at the conception and architecture design phase of their projects, rather than once they have the specification developed.
In the process it has transformed itself from a low-margin textile-manufacturing business into one that derived two-thirds of its revenues in 1997 from garments.