Perception and awareness of the bioeconomy: an empirical study of chosen European academia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-01-2023-0002" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-01-2023-0002</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-01-2023-0002" target="_blank" >10.1108/IJSHE-01-2023-0002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Perception and awareness of the bioeconomy: an empirical study of chosen European academia

Original language description

Purpose: This study aims to diagnose the perception, knowledge, awareness and position of the bioeconomy in university education and research. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on a questionnaire survey conducted at universities in Poland, the Czech Republic, Spain and Portugal (n = 464). The questionnaire consisted of open-ended, dichotomous and Likert-type questions. Variable frequency distribution methods and the non-parametric chi-square test were used to test the independence of the characteristics. The Cramer&apos;s V contingency coefficient was used to determine the degree of dependence between the variables. Findings: The researched academic community is dominated by a traditional approach to the bioeconomy, which relates to agriculture and ecological aspects. Respondents believe in the positive environmental impacts of the bioeconomy, while less often being aware of its importance from a socio-economic perspective. Insufficient teaching and research in the field of the bioeconomy can be widely observed. The presumed link between the existence of a bioeconomy strategy at national level and awareness of the bioeconomy was not confirmed. Research limitations/implications: The limited sample, the narrow geographical scope of the study does not allow for a comprehensive analysis of the topic. Another limitation is the lack of representativeness of the results in relation to all university representatives in the countries studied and the uneven composition of the samples. Originality/value: This study fills the knowledge gap about the status of the bioeconomy in European academic communities by analysing its perception among both teachers and students of social, natural and applied sciences.

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

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

ISSN

1467-6370

e-ISSN

1758-6739

Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

1137-1155

UT code for WoS article

001146865400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85183048242