Regional policy mobilities: Shaping and reshaping bioeconomy policies in Värmland and Västerbotten, Sweden

Andersson, Ida; Grundel, Ida

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.02.005

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“…Another reason to study these two regions was that their F-BB practitioners are engaged in processes of policy learning with each other, through field visits, conferences and other exchange platforms (Albrecht et al 2021). They have collaboration efforts to do research and raise funds from the European Union and are especially active in the network of F-BB practitioners in Europe (Andersson & Grundel 2021). The empirical material analysed comes from a broader project looking at the development of bioeconomy strategies in European regions.…”

Section: Methods and Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Behind the concerns about the excessive focus on economic growth, is the acknowledgement of the bioeconomy as part of a wider regional transformation that includes societal, economic and cultural aspects, and not limited to technological changes (Kemp & Never 2017). Critical voices often call for acknowledging the bioeconomy's role in a transformation towards sustainable regional economies (Bauer 2018;Albrecht et al 2021;Andersson & Grundel 2021). However, the F-BB is embedded in uneven power relations that can undermine its role in such wider transformation.…”

Section: Forest-based Bioeconomy As Regional Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Spaces of the forest-based bioeconomy in Finnish Lapland and Catalonia: practitioners, narratives and forgotten spatialities

Morales

2022

Fennia

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Over the last decade, the bioeconomy has been increasingly promoted as a strategy able to shift our economies away from fossil fuels and boost local economic growth, especially of rural areas in Europe. The bioeconomy is an important part of the European Union agenda, it is promoted through European wide strategies that are translated into local and regional policies. However, the bioeconomy does not unfold equally across regions; it has different implications influenced by the spaces and the narratives with which the policies are created and implemented. Amongst all the actors participating in the bioeconomy strategies, local practitioners play a crucial role in interpreting the narratives and implementing the policies in a way that makes sense for their local contexts. Hence, there is a need to understand how local and regional practitioners apply bioeconomy strategies to grasp how those are expressed in different regional contexts. Through the case studies of the forest-based bioeconomy in Catalonia and Finnish Lapland, this paper explains why economic narratives prevail in the local bioeconomy and how regional spatialities are affected by it. The cases show that the bioeconomy remains close to economic growth and is applied through regional economic development policies, thus focusing on specific economic sectors and hindering the role of the bioeconomy in a wider regional transformation. Understanding the narratives and how these reflect the spatialities help us to advance a spatially sensitive approach to the bioeconomy, this is, a bioeconomy practised according to the socio-spatial conditions, closer to ideas of inclusivity, plurality and justice, and with a greater role in a wider regional transformation, rather than the greening of specific economic sectors.

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Section: Methods and Casesmentioning

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Section: Forest-based Bioeconomy As Regional Transformationmentioning

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Spaces of the forest-based bioeconomy in Finnish Lapland and Catalonia: practitioners, narratives and forgotten spatialities

Morales

2022

Fennia

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“…For example, several researchers have delved into regional structural change and sustainability transitions toward a bio-based regional economy (Halonen et al 2022, Laasonen 2023, Sanz-Hernández et al 2019. Related studies have investigated innovative bio-clusters and regional innovation systems centered on biotechnologies (Abbasiharofteh, Broekel 2020, Heimeriks, Boschma 2014, Kamath et al 2023, innovation networks (Bauer et al 2018), and regional bioeconomy policies and strategies (Andersson, Grundel 2021). Additionally, there is increasing research interest in regional path creation and the pivotal role of actors and agency in propelling regional bioeconomy transitions (Martin et al 2023, Morales, Dahlström 2022, Steinböck, Trippl 2023.…”

Section: The Geography Of Bio-based Economic Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bioeconomy firms and where to find them

Kriesch,

Losacker

2024

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The bioeconomy represents a transformative approach to economic development and sustainability by harnessing biological resources and knowledge to produce goods, services, and energy while reducing dependence on non-renewable resources. In order to understand and support the bioeconomy, scholars and policymakers rely on an accurate measurement and monitoring of biobased economic activities. However, existing statistical frameworks and industry classifications often fall short in capturing the unique characteristics and complexities of the bioeconomy. This article addresses this challenge by developing a methodological approach for comprehensive measurement and mapping of biobased economic activities. We build a novel data set of bioeconomy firms in Germany using web-mining and machine learning techniques. This data set enables detailed analysis of biobased economic activities, providing valuable insights into the spatial organization of the bioeconomy. The paper demonstrates the applicability of the data set by testing several stylized facts about the bioeconomy. Our research contributes to a better understanding of the bioeconomy's regional impacts and offers a valuable resource for policymakers and researchers interested in understanding the geography of biobased economic activities. We make an aggregated version of the data set freely available online.

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“…Potential for sharing good practices and replication in policy and governance solutions is also an issue in a period when the sector is expanding (Andersson and Grundel, 2021).…”

Section: Governance and Political Economymentioning

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The Bioeconomy in economic literature: looking back, looking ahead

Viaggi

Bartolini

Raggi

2022

BAE

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The objective of this paper is to provide a review of recent economic literature related to the Bioeconomy, in particular aimed at identifying relevant pathways for future research in this field. The paper is organised in four main parts. First, we illustrate the economic role of the Bioeconomy and its key statistics in the EU. Second we review economic topics related to the Bioeconomy production in a mainly private (company, consumer, market) perspective. Then we extend our attention to the review of wider social and environmental aspects with a focus on ecosystem services. Finally, we discuss the interplay of the above topics and cross cutting issues in the attempt to identify the most promising pathways for further research. While the economic literature is growing fast in all the fields of the Bioeconomy, we highlight in particular the need of more economic research focusing on transitions and innovation. However, we also highlight the need to take a system perspective and accounting explicitly for the trade-offs among the many objectives that the Bioeconomy is expected to target and to better account of the costs and benefits affecting different stakeholder groups.

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Regional policy mobilities: Shaping and reshaping bioeconomy policies in Värmland and Västerbotten, Sweden

Cited by 13 publications

References 38 publications

Spaces of the forest-based bioeconomy in Finnish Lapland and Catalonia: practitioners, narratives and forgotten spatialities

Spaces of the forest-based bioeconomy in Finnish Lapland and Catalonia: practitioners, narratives and forgotten spatialities

Bioeconomy firms and where to find them

The Bioeconomy in economic literature: looking back, looking ahead

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