How to capture the bioeconomy’s industrial and regional potential through professional cluster management

Kircher, Manfred; Breves, Roland; Taden, Andreas; Herzberg, Dennis

doi:10.1016/j.nbt.2017.05.007

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“…In that regard, the insights and results from systematic stakeholder participation from the beginning can play an important role in addressing persistent societal problems in a credible, transparent, and multi-perspective way [35,47], as well as enable innovations [55]. Public decision making on sustainability is characterized by uncertainty, different values and interests, communities in dispute, as well as urgency [56][57][58], so that holistic approaches have included multiple fields of knowledge and perspectives of different stakeholders [59,60].…”

Section: Stakeholder Participation: a Necessity Rather Than A Burdenmentioning

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Stakeholders’ Interests and Perceptions of Bioeconomy Monitoring Using a Sustainable Development Goal Framework

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The bioeconomy as an industrial metabolism based on renewable resources is characterized by, not intrinsic, but rather potential benefits for global sustainability, depending on many factors and actors. Hence, an appropriate systematic monitoring of its development is vital and complexly linked to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as diverse stakeholder expectations. To structure a framework of the important aspects of such a monitoring system, we conducted a series of stakeholder workshops to assess the relevance of SDGs for the bioeconomy. Our results show how the complexities of these issues are perceived by 64 stakeholders, indicating significant commonalities and differences among six SDGs, including specific interests, perceptions, and, in some cases, counterintuitive and contradictory issues. Eventually, the idea of a bioeconomy is a question of the perception of ends and means of a societal transformation toward holistic sustainability. Global implications like trade-offs, hunger, poverty, and inequalities are aspects of high relevance for monitoring of bioeconomy regions in which they actually do not seem to be substantial.

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Section: Stakeholder Participation: a Necessity Rather Than A Burdenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stakeholders’ Interests and Perceptions of Bioeconomy Monitoring Using a Sustainable Development Goal Framework

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“…It has been shown that biotechnologies contribute to the reduction of negative impact on the environment, promote the consumption of renewable resources, and optimize agriculture production, especially that of food products (Figure 1, left; Levidow, Birch, & Papaioannou, 2012;Aguilar, Bochereau, & Matthiessen, 2009;Woźniak & Twardowski, 2018). Biotechnologies are expected to contribute to economic systems, thus ensuring cleaner and safer production using renewable resources and recycling (Bell et al, 2018;Kircher, Breves, Taden, & Herzberg, 2018;Lokko et al, 2018;Silveira et al, 2017). From the consumption side, bio-based products are sustainable alternatives to manufactured products based on nonrenewable inputs (Aguilar, Wohlgemuth, & Wohlgemuth, 2018b;Dupont-Inglis & Borg, 2018;Mengal et al, 2018;Philp, 2018;Schütte, 2018).…”

Section: Different Perspectives Of Bioeconomy Across Approaches Of mentioning

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Evaluation of bioeconomy in the context of strong sustainability

Liobikienė

Baležentis

Štreimikienė

et al. 2019

Sustainable Development

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The implementation of bioeconomy is important in seeking to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Thus, in recent years, more attention is focused on sustainable bioeconomy. Referring to weak and strong sustainability approaches, many authors stated that bioeconomy is related only to weak sustainability, but this study provides a framework for policy makers that allows the definition and implementation of the bioeconomy based on the strong sustainability approach. Furthermore, researchers evaluating bioeconomy implementation conventionally encompassed the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of the impact of bio‐products; however, they did not consider the strong sustainability approach. Strong sustainability additionally requires not crossing ecological thresholds and, thus, implies consideration of planetary boundaries. Therefore, the inclusion of land footprint and biocapacity measures in the bioeconomy strategy, verifying that the land footprint does not exceed the level of biocapacity, is essential for the creation of a strongly sustainable bioeconomy. This study embarks on the definition of the bioeconomy based on strong sustainability and contributes to the discussion about bioeconomy implementation in the context of sustainable development.

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“…General characteristics and mathematical justification of clusters and clustering are reflected in the studies [1 -17]. In particular, in [1], the authors note that the process of transformation can be accelerated through the creation of bioeconomy clusters, which includes industry, academia and investors. Active management of such a coordinated cluster helps to identify early technology and market trends and to realize the regional potential for biotechnology more quickly.…”

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Effective Cluster Model of Thermal Power Company Management

Chevhanova¹,

Chichulina²,

Skryl³

2018

IJET

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The aim of this study is to determine the need for cluster formations; to identify the influence factors on the creation of a cluster of thermal power companies in Poltava region. The method of evaluating the efficiency of formation of this cluster has been developed. The methodological framework of this research is general scientific dialectical method of cognition, in which the research object is studied as a dynamic system in the process of its development. The formation of the main directions of thermal power company development was carried out on the basis of dialectical, historical and systematic methods. In the process of studying and generalization of scientific and practical development methods of comparison, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction were applied. Also the study is based on regulatory and economic instruments, economical studies and studies of scientific research institutions. As a result of the study the main participants of the cluster formation were identified. So it may be comprised of the members of the cluster, generating thermal energy, the thermal energy consumers and the region where the cluster of thermal power companies will be formed. According to the participants of cluster associations the factors of influence on economic and social effect from implementation of the cluster thermal power companies in the Poltava region were formed. We determined that to reduce the rate for thermal energy it is necessary to conduct a number of activities. The application of the proposed measures will significantly reduce the services cost of thermal power companies. The cost of thermal energy and the distribution among the participants of cluster associations were calculated on the example of Poltava region utility production enterprise of heat economy "Poltavateploenergo". The participants are heat producers, transport companies, distribution and heat supply companies, repair work companies, construction work enterprises. It is established that the overall effect of cluster members has both quantitative and qualitative nature. The impact on consumers is qualitative. It is based on the fact that the tariff for consumers remained unchanged in the medium term (five years). The essence of economic effect is in the quality and timeliness of services thermal management. The overall effect of its work influences all members. It occurs when there is the formation and implementation of cluster thermal power companies. But in addition to the advantages of cluster associations its major problems were presented in the work. Among them there are the following problems: the lack of informativeness of executive authorities and business representatives in the application of the cluster approach; the lack of public policy to ensure the systematic approach and organization of interaction between different levels of executive authorities in the implementation of cluster projects; lack of institutional and financial support to cluster initiatives; lack of trained personnel in the organizational aspects o...

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How to capture the bioeconomy’s industrial and regional potential through professional cluster management

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Stakeholders’ Interests and Perceptions of Bioeconomy Monitoring Using a Sustainable Development Goal Framework

Stakeholders’ Interests and Perceptions of Bioeconomy Monitoring Using a Sustainable Development Goal Framework

Evaluation of bioeconomy in the context of strong sustainability

Effective Cluster Model of Thermal Power Company Management

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