Innovations in Forest Bioeconomy: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Innovations are a key component of the forest bioeconomy. Many types of innovations are needed for an efficient forest bioeconomy to be deployed. This article aimed to analyze the scientific literature on the topic of innovations in the forest bioeconomy, to understand where we are and where we are likely to be in the future, considering technologies, business models, etc. First, the scientific literature, in the form of peer-reviewed articles indexed in the Web of Science, was compiled in a comprehensive dataset, on which we analyzed the most important authors, their affiliations, regions they come from, journals where papers were most commonly published, and under which categories the papers were indexed. The total number of papers matching the keywords was 161. We found that the number of papers published on the topic is increasing and that, on average, each paper was cited 18 times. A total of 504 authors dealt with the topic, presenting a rather small community. This finding was reinforced by the outcomes of the analysis of regions where the authors of the papers were affiliated—Europe being the region to which most papers were affiliated. We conducted a qualitative synthesis of the literature on forest bioeconomy innovations. We found that authors dealt with the necessary adaptation of policies, while innovations were mainly focused on biorefining, biotechnology, production of various biomaterials, as well as innovations of business models and stakeholder interactions.

Forest Bioeconomy in Brazil: Potential Innovative Products from the Forest Sector

“…Worldwide, there are several technologies and processes that could improve the value of forest products within the forest sector [45]. Many industries have increased their competitiveness and environmental performance due to developments and innovations of value-added forest products [53].…”

“…The number of published scientific studieson innovations in forest bioeconomy increased between 2010 and 2021. However, most of these publications focus on Europe and North America, with around 80% of the publications, while South America has a small representativeness of about 6% on the topic [45]. Thus, it is important to synthesize the available information on the forest bioeconomy for underrepresented countries, such as Brazil, and global regions.…”

bioéconomie en France. Une étude scientométrique

“…D'autres proposent un prisme plus conceptuel (Mougenot et Doussoulin, 2022;Yaremova et al, 2021;Tassinari et al, 2021) qui leur permet d'évaluer les facteurs clés du développement dans ce domaine. D'autres encore s'intéressent aux filières connexes comme les bioraffineries (Sganzerla et al, 2021), la forêt (Paletto et al, 2020;Holmgren et al, 2020;Jankovský et al, 2021), les bioénergies (Dal Poz et al, 2017;Mao et al, 2018) ou la biomasse (Knapczyk et al, 2021;Elgarahy et al, 2021).…”

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“…Bugge et al's [27] well-known classification of bio-technology, bioecology, and bio-resource research visions was recently complemented by Piplani and Smith-Hall's [5] framework for analyzing the forest-based bioeconomy, which distinguishes between five schools of thought: the biotechnology, techno-bioresource, socio-bioresource, eco-efficiency, and eco-society. Jankovský et al [28] review the scientific literature on the topic of innovations in the forest bioeconomy, finding that most studies dealt with the necessary adaptation of policies, while innovations were mainly focused on biorefining, biotechnology, and production of various biomaterials, as well as innovations of business models and stakeholder interactions.…”