News you might have missed: 13 May 2009
Looking for a quick update of all the latest cleantech news and related developments? Here you go:
- Drivers in the UK should realise that the auto industry is changing and begin to adapt to an increasing focus on green transport, according to Mike Waters, director of market insight at fuel management firm Arval;
- EU Member States are promoting the creation of an EU-wide patenting system called “Community Patent” that would allow individuals and enterprises to obtain a unitary patent common to all;
- A recently published study examines the impact of very cheap sequence data — approximately $1 per genome — on improvement of switchgrass, a perennial grass well suited to biomass production;
- Intermap Technologies has completed production of the first dataset of highly accurate three-dimensional road vectors covering more than 1 million line kilometres in Germany;
- Underwater archaeologist Jon Henderson of The University of Nottingham will be the first archaeologist in 40 years to have official access to the ancient town of Pavlopetri, the oldest submerged town in the world.
