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Blue Innovation Review #01

‘Best of all things is water!’ the great poet Pindar exclaimed during the very beginnings of Hellenic civilization… The seas and oceans are an immense space of 360 million square kilometres, over two-thirds of...

Analysis

Asia, the World’s Aquatic Centre of Gravity

The importance that Asia has acquired in a number of industrial sectors is beyond doubt, but if there is one domain in which the continent is not only the main actor but also the veritable driving force, it is...

Countries

Cascais is sea-oriented

Cascais has always been sea-oriented. Its geography with a relatively sheltered cove and the marine richness, which is due to the diversity of fish species, has given Cascais a natural harbour of refuge that...

Interviews

Togo and the blue economy

Blue Innovation. On the 15th of October 2016, at the initiative of the African Union, African heads of state gathered at Lomé in Togo for an extraordinary summit on maritime safety and security and development...

Analysis

The world’s oceans, tomorrow’s Economic Promised Land?

Dreams of fabulous wealth in unexplored regions of the world have always kindled man’s imagination. After the excitement of the conquest of space comes that of the exploration of the deep, and our collective...

Focus

Immense quantities of rare earths discovered off the coast of Japan

The 21st century’s ‘black gold’, rare earths are a group of 17 metals (scandium, yttrium and the 15 lanthanides) that share certain properties. Mined since the 1940s, they have become strategically important minerals...

Interviews

Monaco. Passionate about the Sea

Blue Innovation. You are widely acknowledged as a leader on maritime and environmental matters, notably thanks to the foundation that you established in 2006. What do you think Monaco’s role in this field will be over...

Focus

Half a billion Australian dollars to save the Great Barrier Reef

With over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching over 2,600km and a surface area of nearly 348,000km2, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef off Queensland is the largest coral reef and the largest biogenic...

Blue Business

Social Innovation. Blue Growth through Cooperation and Solidarity

In 2002, the Lower North Shore of Quebec, Canada was struck with a fishery crisis resulting from the closure of the local crab and cod fishery. For the affected small isolated communities along the Gulf of St Lawrence...

Blue Business

Algae, an effective lever for carbon-free agriculture and consumption

The Olmix Group is a French SME based in Brittany with a turnover of 155 million euros (2017)—80% of which was exports. The Group works through a worldwide network of 27 locations and 800 partners in 100 countries. Blue...

Blue Business

Green & Blue-economy: Bioplastic trends

The excess of plastic waste floating over the Oceans has become a highlight topic on the media. Coincidentally, recent footage of a plastic waste wave in Haiti has opened TV news around the world. Over the last decade...

Blue Business

Mexico: building a blue sustainable and profitable business around sea cucumbers

Mexico is a large country that has an exclusive economic zone covering an area of 2,715,012 km2. This is more extensive than the continental surface of Mexico, the North Pacific region being the most important in...

News

BioMimetx: a promising company

BioMimetx is a Portuguese Biotech company, that is inspired by Nature to research, develop and commercialize natural and innovative compounds recovered from bacteria. After an initial seed funding for the Proof of...

News

The “Blue bio value” program

The equation simply doesn’t have a solution if we continue to do things as we do today. We won’t be able to supply a growing demand and reduce CO2 emissions to desirable levels without changing dramatically the way we...

News

Precision 3D imagery thanks to a new submersible laser camera

The European Project UTOFIA (‘Underwater Time Of Flight Image Acquisition’) has enabled researchers to design a new kind of underwater camera. Unlike current technologies that lack precision and are very time-consuming...

News

Naval Énergies ebbs away from marine current power

On the 26th of July 2018, Naval Énergies—a subsidiary of the French company Naval Group, Europe’s leading naval defence contractor and a major actor of renewable marine energies—announced that it would stop investing in...

News

The blue economy employs over 3.5 million people in Europe

The share of the blue economy in the European Union (all activities linked to the oceans, seas and coastal areas) is constantly increasing according to the EU’s first annual report on the matter, published in June 2018...