Current state and future directions of bioeconomy in the Czech Republic

Hájek, Miroslav; Holecová, Michaela; Smolová, Helena; Jeřábek, Ladislav; Frébort, Ivo

doi:10.1016/j.nbt.2020.09.006

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“…The pattern exists mostly in the Central and Eastern European countries such as Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czech Republic. Our finding corroborates with a previous study analyzing the bioeconomy development in Czech Republic [3]. The authors conclude that no targeted national strategies have been initiated in Czech Republic and other Eastern European countries.…”

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“…Interestingly, the project targets many of the countries which showed lagging biorefineries development in our study. We acknowledge that this political initiative is crucial to the development as it enhances international cooperation in addition to establishing the framework for the dissemination of innovation across nations [3]. Still, this approach could benefit from incorporating more national or regional measures.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, few studies compare countries in the different phases of their bioeconomy development: no bioeconomy strategies at all, strategies currently undergoing development, or countries with policy initiatives dedicated to the bioeconomy, but no strategy. For example, the Czech Republic has not developed a separate strategy for its bioeconomy, however, other policies support research and innovation in other bioeconomy related fields [3]. Moreover, Bosman and Rotmans [4] emphasized that a country's geographic location, natural resources, and economies will dictate their bioeconomy approach.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Development of Biorefineries in the Bioeconomy: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis among European Countries

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Grundmann

2021

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This study aims to identify the configurational conditions that characterize the establishment of biorefineries in 20 European countries. After determining the conditions which support a bioeconomy transition, secondary data from national sources are used to represent their existing conditions within respective countries. Then, a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is employed to compare and contrast the effect of varying combinations of the selected conditions on the development of biorefineries. The conditions chosen include coherent bioeconomy strategies, network intensity of regional bioclusters, intellectual capital, and natural resource availability. Our results reveal that the configuration of a coherent bioeconomy strategy, sizable public spending on R&D, abundant biomass supply, and a high level of network intensity is sufficient to explain the pronounced biorefineries development among some European countries. We recommend that countries with fragmented approaches review and redesign the policy and regulatory framework to create a holistic and consistent bioeconomy strategy, taking into account the configurations of conditions as an important prerequisite. In particular, factors such as the lack of best practice examples, the low level of public spending on research and development, the economic capacities for a skilled workforce in addition to the sustainable supply of raw materials should be addressed as focal points.

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Development of Biorefineries in the Bioeconomy: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis among European Countries

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2021

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“…The number of citations a paper achieved per year was six, with the number of citations of the top 10 most cited papers reached 27 citations per paper and year. [23] 88 [24] 25 [25] 66 [18] 25 [26] 64 [27] 23 [28] 63 [29] 23 [30] 57 [23] 22…”

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“…Biotechnology and innovation were identified as the main drivers of the development of the Czech forest bioeconomy. Still, the country needs to ramp up funding and financial and political support to increase the efficiency of bioeconomy deployment in the country [24].…”

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Innovations in Forest Bioeconomy: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Innovations are a key component of the forest bioeconomy. Many types of innovations are needed for an efficient forest bioeconomy to be deployed. This article aimed to analyze the scientific literature on the topic of innovations in the forest bioeconomy, to understand where we are and where we are likely to be in the future, considering technologies, business models, etc. First, the scientific literature, in the form of peer-reviewed articles indexed in the Web of Science, was compiled in a comprehensive dataset, on which we analyzed the most important authors, their affiliations, regions they come from, journals where papers were most commonly published, and under which categories the papers were indexed. The total number of papers matching the keywords was 161. We found that the number of papers published on the topic is increasing and that, on average, each paper was cited 18 times. A total of 504 authors dealt with the topic, presenting a rather small community. This finding was reinforced by the outcomes of the analysis of regions where the authors of the papers were affiliated—Europe being the region to which most papers were affiliated. We conducted a qualitative synthesis of the literature on forest bioeconomy innovations. We found that authors dealt with the necessary adaptation of policies, while innovations were mainly focused on biorefining, biotechnology, production of various biomaterials, as well as innovations of business models and stakeholder interactions.

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