Development of a forest-based bioeconomy in Finland: Insights on three value networks through expert views

Korhonen, Jaana; Miettinen, Jenni; Kylkilahti, Eliisa; Tuppura, Anni; Autio, Minna; Lähtinen, Katja; Pätäri, Satu; Pekkanen, Tiia-Lotta; Luhas, Jukka; Mikkilä, Mirja; Linnanen, Lassi; Ollikainen, Markku; Toppinen, Anne

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126867

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“…These include changing products, markets and demands (Cai et al 2013;Hetemäki et al 2014;Hurmekoski et al 2018;Jonsson et al 2021) (Viitala and Leppänen 2014;Weiss et al 2019). In addition, a business perspective on transition to circular forest-based bioeconomy in Finland has been widely studied (Luhas et al 2019;D'Amato et al 2020;Näyhä 2020;Korhonen et al 2021;Toivanen 2021). Overall, there is an increasing amount of scientific knowledge on forest industry's impact on environment, society and economy that the industry is incrementally acknowledging in their strategies.…”

Section: Identifying Macro- Meso-and Micro-level Economic Environment...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the studies focusing on transitions, the concepts and narratives related to the transitions towards sustainability, circular economy and bioeconomy (McCormick and Kautto 2013;Lindahl et al 2017;Leipold and Petit-Boix 2018;Gawel et al 2019;Näyhä 2019;Wreford et al 2019;D'Amato 2021;D'Amato and Korhonen 2021;Kardung and Drabik 2021) are broadly studied. Similarly, there are studies on macro-level policies that support sustainability-oriented economic transitions in general (Meyer 2017;Patterson et al 2017;Stegmann et al 2020), related to bioeconomy (Ramcilovic-Suominen et al 2022) and within the forest industry and its networks (Korhonen et al 2018a;Scordato et al 2018;Korhonen et al 2021). However, the business and value creation perspectives are missing.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Implications of the sustainability transition on the industry value creation logic – case of Finnish pulp and paper industry

Laakkonen,

Rusanen,

Hujala

et al. 2023

Silva Fenn

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Global economic, social and environmental change drivers have tremendous effects on the dynamic and nested business environment calling for a sustainability transition to a circular bioeconomy. The transition will pressurise established industries to alter their value creation logic to consider sustainability holistically. The study follows a case study research strategy and investigates how an established Finnish pulp and paper industry reconfigures its communicated value creation logic. The findings of a qualitative document analysis suggest that the pulp and paper industry has started to explore new sustainable path-breaking innovations and create a common development agenda, which has resulted in incremental adaptations in the value creation logic. However, the industry’s narrative of already being sustainable has hampered the reconfiguration and stabilisation of the adapted value creation logic. From a theoretical perspective, adopting an interdisciplinary and systemic perspective is necessary to understand the changing business environment. From a managerial perspective, cross-sectoral collaboration and including perspectives of different actors can help in creating a holistically sustainable value creation logic.

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Implications of the sustainability transition on the industry value creation logic – case of Finnish pulp and paper industry

Laakkonen,

Rusanen,

Hujala

et al. 2023

Silva Fenn

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“…The FBE definition reflects specifics related to the nature of the forestry sector in a given country. For example, if the supported subject were viewed through Finland's FBE, it would be possible to consider the special bark beetle contribution as an FBE due to the inclusion of the logging activity [73,74]. It is also possible to mention another view, that of Italy, which places greater emphasis on the recreational use of forestry and non-wood forest production like mushrooms and berries [75,76].…”

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Analysis of Financial Support for Forestry in the Czech Republic from the Perspective of Forest Bioeconomy

Rinn

Jarský

2022

Sustainability

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The bioeconomy, as a new phenomenon using renewable resources, significantly affects the forestry sector in many countries. Individual countries have implemented forest policies by financially supporting forestry in different ways and for different reasons. The nature and targeting of this support vary from country to country. In a simplified way, it is possible to divide them into two categories: production support and environmental protection support (e.g., to ensure sustainable development). The aim of this article is to analyse the substantive focus of forestry subsidies from national sources in the Czech Republic and, subsequently, compare them with the Czech focus of a forest bioeconomy (FBE). The objective of this analysis is to analyse the financial support provided by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic (MoA) between 2018 and 2021. As the Czech Republic’s FBE is not clearly defined, it was analysed and described with the help of the relevant national strategic and political documents. Subsequently, the obtained results were compared with each other to see if the financial subsidies were in line with the Czech FBE. The focus of the subsidies in the years under review is influenced by the situation in Czech forestry, which has faced a severe bark beetle outbreak, causing the financial sources provided to forest owners to increase significantly due to the bark beetle outbreak, which has affected the whole forest sector. The results show that some types of support are provided in accordance with FBE, while others are not. The general conclusions are that the financial support for forestry does not fully represent the Czech FBE.

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“…At least from some countries' perspective (e.g. Italy), an important aspect of BE is the emphasis on education and technological progress (Korhonen et al, 2021) and decision-making based on scientific knowledge (Borge and Bröring, 2020;Falcone et al, 2020). The European Union (EU) as a whole has taken a clear approach to the BE concept since 2012 (EC, 2012;Patermann and Aguilar, 2018) and, with the subsequent amendment in 2018, the relevant strategy including the tools for its implementation is part of EU policies (Ludvig, Zivojinovic, Hujala, 2019).…”

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Bioeconomy-based tourism: A new concept responding to the support of bioeconomy

Rinn

Kalábová²,

Jarský³

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Tourism has experienced dynamic development in recent decades and has become one of the fastest growing industries; however, the COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented changes and declines in revenues and tourism trends. With the strong support of bioeconomy (BE) this period brings a great opportunity to transform the entire tourism sector into a model responding to that concept. The main aim of this article is to prove whether and under what possible conditions tourism is a part of the concept of BE. Selected European Union (EU) countries have been chosen so that every geographical area is represented. This analysis was therefore carried out for a total of 12 states and the EU as a whole (13 entities). Of these 13 entities, seven have their own BE strategy and six do not. According to the level of emphasis on the field of tourism in the examined documents, we divided the states into three categories. Although the selected and analysed countries mention tourism in their BE strategies with various emphasis and approach, the inclusion of tourism under this concept is evident. Bioeconomy-based tourism has been designed as a new concept that considers the approach of BE. It focuses above all on a sustainable level of tourism in the connection of economic and environmental pillars, where the main emphasis is placed on the effective use of natural resources and maximum effort not to waste these resources, as well as to support economic growth.

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Development of a forest-based bioeconomy in Finland: Insights on three value networks through expert views

Cited by 11 publications

References 81 publications

Implications of the sustainability transition on the industry value creation logic – case of Finnish pulp and paper industry

Implications of the sustainability transition on the industry value creation logic – case of Finnish pulp and paper industry

Analysis of Financial Support for Forestry in the Czech Republic from the Perspective of Forest Bioeconomy

Bioeconomy-based tourism: A new concept responding to the support of bioeconomy

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