Towards a sustainable innovation system for the German wood-based bioeconomy: Implications for policy design

Purkus, Alexandra; Hagemann, Nina; Bedtke, Norman; Gawel, Erik

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.04.146

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“…For example, they may increase the use of forests and agricultural land, potentially beyond planetary boundaries, producing erosion and contamination (Purkus, Hagemann, Bedtke, & Gawel, 2018). In restraining such pressures, a transition towards innovative and sustainable technologies should be sensitive to the utilization of renewable resources (Falcone & Sica, 2019).…”

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Transitioning towards the bio‐economy: Assessing the social dimension through a stakeholder lens

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García

Imbert

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Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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International institutions are calling for a transition towards more sustainable systems of production and consumption. In this transition, sustainable innovations are expected to play an ever-increasing role. In particular, the production of innovative bio-based products-products wholly or partly derived from biological materials or from innovative production processes and/or innovative biomass such as food waste or forest residuals-will be part of this process. However, the sustainability of such products must be assured along their entire life cycle and across the three dimensions mentioned above. Against this background, our study aimed at identifying a social impact framework tailored to bio-based products. It employed a two-step methodological framework encompassing (a) identification of the relevant social impact categories, subcategories, and indicators and (b) validation of these factors, according to participatory stakeholder involvement. The validation exercise enabled us to consider a restricted number of social indicators so as to reduce the amount of data needed for assessing and decreasing related costs.

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“…These different types of infrastructure shaped each other over time. Their interdependence was different per case, per type of innovation and per community (Bichai, Kajenthira Grindle, & Murthy, 2018;Purkus, Hagemann, Bedtke, & Gawel, 2018). It could be observed, however, that all three types were needed, and that negative and positive feedback loops can be expected with regards to the effects of the three types of infrastructure on the actual innovation process.…”

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The Innovation Process in Local Development – The Material, Institutional, and Intellectual Infrastructure Shaping and Shaped by Innovation

Gorzelany-Dziadkowiec

Gorzelany

Stauskis

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Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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The purpose of the article is to define the material, institutional, and intellectual infrastructure of a region and identify the innovative processes that determine its creation. Our main research hypothesis is that the processes that influence the creation of a region's infrastructure determine a region's competitiveness as well. To verify these premises, we conducted a study among the residents and employees of a municipality. The research employed deductive and inductive methods and a qualitative analysis was performed. Pearson's linear correlation coefficient and factor analysis (inference based on the modal and median values) were used in the study. The research verified the hypothesis that innovative processes influence the creation of a region's infrastructure and that innovative processes in the studied region exhibit low dynamics, which is caused by financial and psychosocial barriers. The important role of social leaders in municipalities was identified as well, above all as regards building civic society and social activity. The added value of the article is threefold: the developed model of infrastructure construction in the material, institutional, and intellectual dimensions of a region; recommendations for the investigated municipality; and a structured questionnaire that, together with the model, can be used for research in municipalities. Keywords: regional development, regional competitiveness, material infrastructure, institutional infrastructure, intellectual infrastructure, entrepreneurship behavior, municipal management, model of infrastructure construction. JEL Classification: R50, O31.

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“…This alignment of the objectives of bioeconomy with those of sustainability may be able to create new directions and opportunities for meeting some of the requirements for sustainability [52]. As both scholars and policy-makers strongly assert that innovation plays a central role in ensuring a sustainable bioeconomy transition, both on the supply side, citing the need for new technologies and products, and on the user side, emphasising the consumption and waste patterns [22,[142][143][144], it must then be globally agreed that a multitude of different renewable resource-based technologies and innovation structures would have to come into play under the broad concept of "bioeconomy" [144] for this to happen. Technology Innovation Systems (TIS) perspectives [145,146] can be regarded as a catalyst for the technology and innovation back-up.…”

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Utilisation of Lignins in the Bioeconomy: Projections on Ionic Liquids and Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Selective Separation and Recovery of Base Metals and Gold

Ndibewu¹,

Tchieta²

2018

Lignin - Trends and Applications

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A brief review has been herein done of technologies involved in the exploitation of lignin, in order to provide an introduction to the subject from the perspective of a fast technologically advancing economy. Lignocellulosic materials and biomass have historically been utilised from since time memorial, but a new conversation is emerging on the role of these materials in modern bioeconomies. This new discourse needs to help us understand how technologies for managing and processing lignocellulosic materials both as biosynthetic moieties, biogenic wastes or simply renewable biopolymer-both established and novel-should be deployed and integrated (or not) to meet developmental requirements of the sustainability paradigm. The world is caught in the middle of green technology advocating for more and more focus on renewable sources of manufacturing raw materials and that of the molecularly imprinted/synthesised or genetically engineered ones. The utilisation of lignins (from renewable sources) in both the industry as the base for the formulation of ionic liquids (with yet a wider industrial applications), and also is a potential scaffold material for functionally modified imprinted polymers (LCIPS) for the selective recovery of base metals and gold, respectively, evidently incorporates the bioeconomy aspirations.

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Towards a sustainable innovation system for the German wood-based bioeconomy: Implications for policy design

Cited by 96 publications

References 77 publications

Transitioning towards the bio‐economy: Assessing the social dimension through a stakeholder lens

Transitioning towards the bio‐economy: Assessing the social dimension through a stakeholder lens

The Innovation Process in Local Development – The Material, Institutional, and Intellectual Infrastructure Shaping and Shaped by Innovation

Utilisation of Lignins in the Bioeconomy: Projections on Ionic Liquids and Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Selective Separation and Recovery of Base Metals and Gold

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