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Podcast: Agbioscience
Episode: 417. Ourobio’s Alec Brewer on the journey of a startup, bioinnovation’s opportunity to reshape traditional industries + contributing to a circular economy
Description: The demand for biobased materials is growing on a global scale, with no signals of that pace slowing any time soon. One startup has leveraged the power of synthetic biology to turn industrial byproducts into biomaterials. This week, Ourobio CEO Alec Brewer joins us to talk the company’s founding, contributing to a circular economy and their innovation process – end-to-end.  Highlights include:  The company’s origin story out of the University of Virginia and how it has evolved Ourobio’s innovation process, end-to-end, that produces bio-based materials Pivoting as an entrepreneur and knowing when they needed to tilt thei...