Intellectual PropertyIntellectual Property
Ethtec has a world-wide exclusive licence from Apace Research Limited ("Apace Research") to further develop and commercialise technologies developed by and under the direction of Apace Research for the production of ethanol from lignocellulosic material.
Over the past 25 years Apace Research has received a number of Australian Federal Government grants to develop new technologies for the production of ethanol from lignocellulosic material. In collaboration with the University of Southern Mississippi (United States of America), the Tennessee Valley Authority (United States of America) and the University of New South Wales (Australia), Apace Research has developed and demonstrated this technology at laboratory and mini-pilot plant scale.
The pilot plant project in Australia is a four phase project to further develop and commercialise the Apace Research technology.
There is significant potential to access the associated intellectual property worldwide at each phase of the pilot plant development through license agreements with Ethtec.