Que faire? A Bioeconomy and Solar Energy Institute at Italy's Research Council in the Context of the Global Transition to the Solar Economy

Mario Pagliaro; Francesco Meneguzzo

doi:10.1002/chem.201703146

Que faire? A Bioeconomy and Solar Energy Institute at Italy's Research Council in the Context of the Global Transition to the Solar Economy

Chemistry. 2017 Nov 2;23(61):15276-15282. doi: 10.1002/chem.201703146. Epub 2017 Oct 12.

Authors

Mario Pagliaro¹, Francesco Meneguzzo²

Affiliations

¹ Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, CNR, via U. La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo, Italy.
² Istituto di Biometeorologia, CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Fl, Italy.

PMID: 29024032
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201703146

Abstract

Driven by insight for which new research and education requires new institutional organisation, and drawing on two decades of research and educational efforts, we devise the profile and activities of a new bioeconomy and solar energy institute at Italy's Research Council. We further articulate the institute's activities suggesting avenues on how to deploy sound and giving more useful research, education and policy advice in these crucial fields for making tomorrow's common development sustainable. The outcomes of the study are of general interest, because the transition to a solar economy is of intrinsic global nature and the challenges involved are similar in many countries.

Keywords: bioeconomy; education; energy conversion; solar energy.