Value chain transformations in the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy

Clay, Pablo Mac; Sellare, Jorge

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“…Investments However, the current success of domestic companies does not preclude future competition or acquisitions by large foreign corporations, which may lead to market concentration. Acceleration in the rate of bioeconomy innovation is associated with more vertically coordinated value chains, bigger companies with higher market shares, increasing knowledge-sharing among value chain members, and a leading role of firms with core research capabilities [14].…”

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“…The establishment of domestic industrial clusters can benefit from government support to private ventures to improve technological transformation [36][37][38]. Policies can also increase the distributional effects of bio-based innovation among value chain members and prevent market concentration [14,24].…”

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“…Agricultural bio-inputs are deemed a strategic sector for investments worldwide [5][6][7], and as a market opportunity for developing countries [8][9][10][11] that can participate in the bioeconomy by investing in open-source biotechnology [12] and in biotech alliances [13]. The new bio-based technologies are seen as a path to value chain transformation while creating new business opportunities [14]. Technological developments in the field of agricultural bio-inputs promise sustainable alternatives to replace synthetic fertilizers and pesticides [6].…”

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Agricultural Bio-Inputs as an Innovative Area of Opportunity for Agro-Industrial Growth in Developing Countries: Lessons from Argentina

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Technology-based innovations in the bio-economy are expected to provide new market opportunities for agro-industrial growth in developing countries. This study explores how domestic entrepreneurs have been benefiting from the growing global demand for sustainable agribusiness by establishing themselves in the agricultural bio-inputs sector. Aiming to explore how developing countries can build agro-industrial capabilities that go beyond farming, a case study was conducted in Argentina giving the country’s large domestic market for agricultural inputs. The assessment was based on official data and a survey conducted with a sample of 14 Argentinean companies. Results revealed a growing number of domestic companies in the bio-inputs market, which accounted for 74% of the total number of companies by 2022. Contextual aspects that favored domestic players include private investments by local entrepreneurs, the use of locally available technologies, support from public innovation centers and assertive market strategies. Principal component analysis revealed different business models, which include companies focusing on the development of new products, companies with professional industrial plants for large-scale production and companies with a strong marketing component reaching out to farmers. The global growth of sustainable bio-based agricultural production offers areas of opportunities for domestic investments in cleaner agro-industrial sectors that go beyond the primary production of commodities and can build industrial capabilities in developing countries.

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“…Finally, also in Cluster 3, there seem to be at least two types of companies, depending on the technological level. One explanation for the intra-cluster diversity could be what Mac Clay and Sellare [27] described as different stages of value chain upgrading, with different levels of biomass use, technological innovation, investments, risks, cooperation, and knowledge-sharing. Some companies of each cluster might be more advanced in the upgrading process than others, leading to different characteristics and also, to different economic and environmental outcomes.…”

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“…A value chain approach to differentiate bioeconomic types and a potential upgrading process is proposed by Mac Clay and Sellare [27]. The authors distinguish six value chain models with different characteristics of biomass and biotechnology use and innovation processes.…”

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New or Traditional Approaches in Argentina’s Bioeconomy? Biomass and Biotechnology Use, Local Embeddedness, and Sustainability Outcomes of Bioeconomic Ventures

Dürr

Sili

2022

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The bioeconomy continues to be a contested field in the political debate. There is still no consensus on how a bioeconomy should be designed and anchored in society. Alternative bioeconomy concepts that deviate from the mainstream discourse and are based on small-scale, agro-ecological models are usually underrepresented in the debate. This also applies to Argentina, where the diversity of bioeconomic approaches has not yet been documented and analyzed. The objective of this paper is to identify bioeconomic approaches in Argentina, and characterize alternative, more socio-ecological and locally embedded approaches in order to make them more visible for the political debate. Based on literature research, categories were extracted that can be used to distinguish different types of the bioeconomy. Subsequently, these categories were used in an online survey of 47 enterprises representing different sectors of Argentina’s bioeconomy. Using cluster analysis, three groups can be distinguished: a biomass, a biotechnology, and a bioembedded cluster. Argentina’s bioeconomy seems to follow a path dependency logic, but new development paths are also opening up. The bioeconomic approaches discovered in Argentina are partly consistent with contemporary bioeconomy typologies, but there is also great diversity within the groups. All bioeconomic approaches have local connections, but are locally embedded in different ways. In addition to the differences between the bioeconomic approaches, two common elements could also be detected: an interest in sustainable use of natural resources and in building networks using synergies with other actors in the territory. These two elements mean that bioeconomic initiatives could pave the way for a new rural development model in Argentina.

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Bioeconomic innovations breeding more sustainable innovations: A value chain perspective from Argentina

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Sili,

Mac Clay

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Innovations are crucial for the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy. They are embedded in and linked to complex value chains, but these interrelationships have not received much attention in the empirical literature yet. Using current typologies of four bioeconomic innovation types and six value chain models, this case study analyzes detailed data from 11 companies in Argentina to identify the drivers of sustainable innovations, their linkage to different value chain characteristics, and the main innovation types. The results show that certain factors such as supply and demand, interindustry cooperation and R&D, diversification strategies, personal values and the search for sustainable solutions particularly shape certain types of innovation. The structure and governance of the value chains influence the type of sustainable innovation. Innovations take place at different levels, and in succession, they complement each other and can thus make the bioeconomy more sustainable. Therefore, appropriate policies to promote the bioeconomy in Argentina and beyond should consider the type of value chains and specific innovation systems involved.

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Value chain transformations in the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy

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Agricultural Bio-Inputs as an Innovative Area of Opportunity for Agro-Industrial Growth in Developing Countries: Lessons from Argentina

Agricultural Bio-Inputs as an Innovative Area of Opportunity for Agro-Industrial Growth in Developing Countries: Lessons from Argentina

New or Traditional Approaches in Argentina’s Bioeconomy? Biomass and Biotechnology Use, Local Embeddedness, and Sustainability Outcomes of Bioeconomic Ventures

Bioeconomic innovations breeding more sustainable innovations: A value chain perspective from Argentina

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