Comparing Bioeconomy Potential at National vs. Regional Level Employing Input-Output Modeling

Jurga, Piotr; Loizou, Efstratios; Rozakis, Stélios

doi:10.3390/en14061714

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“…Evaluating the significance of the given sector for the development of the bioeconomy, including to the extent of labour resources, is also essential [47]. This paper analyses agriculture which at the EU level employs more than half of all workers in the bioeconomy.…”

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Significance of Agriculture for Bioeconomy in the Member States of the European Union

2021

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Bioeconomy is a response of the European Union and its member states to global challenges such as ensuring food security, mandatory sustainable management of natural resources, mitigating climate change and reducing dependency on non-renewable resources. One of the sectors playing an important role in the development of bioeconomy is agriculture, which accounts for the largest part of biomass used as a raw material for producing bioproducts. This paper is an attempt to answer the following questions: What is the essence and significance of the bioeconomy sector in the EU? How significant is agriculture to the bioeconomy sector? What is the potential and competitiveness of agriculture in EU countries? Data used in surveys is sourced from the Data-Modelling platform of agro-economics research and covers the years 2008–2017. The position of agriculture in the bioeconomy was determined based on measures such as level of employment and gross value added (GVA), turnover, while its competitiveness was assessed based on labour productivity. The results of surveys showed that more than 50% of all bioeconomy workers were employed in agriculture. The sector produced nearly 30% GVA and had a more than 18% share in bioeconomy turnover. Member states of the European Union featured diverse agricultural potential. At the same time, the productivity of agriculture was one of the lowest in the bioeconomy sector. The importance of agriculture stems not only from its food function, but also from the production of biomass. However, its social function is equally important, and in the face of escalating environmental problems the function connected with reducing external costs and producing environmental public goods has become complementary.

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Significance of Agriculture for Bioeconomy in the Member States of the European Union

2021

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“…Circularity and efficiency are not always incorporated into bioeconomy strategies [69], but some authors introduce the concept of circular bioeconomy to ensure that bioeconomy supports resource efficiency [70]. However, little research has been conducted to monitor, model, and evaluate the impacts and trajectories of specific sectors of bioeconomy to create a sector-specific and tailored policy framework [48,71,72]. Monitoring is of paramount importance to identify and assess alterations in economic, social, and environmental dimensions [73].…”

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The Knowledge Based Agricultural Bioeconomy: A Bibliometric Network Analysis

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The last ten years have witnessed an increase in publications focusing on bioeconomy as a proposal to confront the global challenges of climate change, depletion of non-renewable resources and ecosystem degradation. This paper investigates the scientific literature on issues related agricultural bioeconomy by applying a bibliometric network analysis. Bibliometric analysis is applied to the publications of the Scopus database during the period 2010–2020 in order to provide an overview of the main aspects that characterize agricultural bioeconomy. The results showed that out of a total of 1100 scientific papers, only 2.45% were published in 2010, while the corresponding share in 2020 was 20.81%. In the five years of 2016–2020, cumulatively, 70.63% of the publications were made, showing the dynamic evolution of bioeconomy. In addition, out of 85 countries in total, Germany and Italy are the two countries with most publications, while the fragmentation of research is evident with the creation of two main nodes, the European and the American. Moreover, keyword analysis showed that biomass and sustainability are two main recurring concepts, confirming that, currently, bioeconomy operates at three different levels: energy demand, land demand, and governance. It is apparent that to boost the development of agricultural bioeconomy, the following aspects should be assessed: the effective use of resources, an understanding of the key drivers of agricultural bioeconomy, and a clear perception of their associations. There is still no consensus as to which are the key factors that will accelerate its sustainable development. Our pursuit is to use the tools of bibliometric analysis to reach more critical conclusions regarding the agricultural bioeconomy, rather than approach it in a static way.

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“…They reveal pathways and challenges associated with this transition. The first group of papers [4][5][6] is assessing the potentials and relative significance of bioeconomy in the post-COVID economic recovery. This is followed by a group of four papers [7][8][9][10] that are assessing technical or economic feasibility of knowledge-intensive biobased applications at the industrial, or regional, scale.…”

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