Shaping the bioeconomy: Public and private sector perceptions across European regions

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100264" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100264</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100264" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100264</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Shaping the bioeconomy: Public and private sector perceptions across European regions

Original language description

The bioeconomy is widely viewed as a viable solution to complex global challenges and diverse actors must collaborate to create sustainable and resilient economies. The public and private sector drive this transformation through strategies, policies, and regulation business choices and investments, innovation and market implementation respectively. The present study explores perceptions of the bioeconomy among public and private sector actors in nine European regions through the prism of their familiarity and understanding of its constituent parts: concepts, value chains, benefits and risks. The novelty of the research consists in assessing the understanding of the bioeconomy at regional level. Instead of imposing a conventional top-down agenda, it seeks to elicit practitioner conceptualisations, based on 534 survey responses conducted in the respective regional languages. Descriptive and summary statistics were used to explore the data, followed by non-parametric tests. Key findings are: (1) A positive discourse on the bioeconomy is observed, particularly among survey respondents with high self-rated familiarity, but this may not align with its factual drawbacks. (2) Practical bioeconomy implementation is complex. Environmental benefits are perceived as its most distinguishing feature, yet respondents also consider socioeconomic elements important. Similarly, tensions are observed between personal risks versus societal benefits. Therefore, a sustainable bioeconomy must reconcile environmental and socioeconomic objectives, and different levels of impact. (3) Despite an emerging consensus on the bioeconomy's constituent elements, sector-specific focus areas and regional specificity of conditions prevent uniformity of the bioeconomy across regions. This should be taken into account in policy formulation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

CURRENT RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

ISSN

2666-0490

e-ISSN

2666-0490

Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

14.0

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

001340003500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85206533736