EU ambition to build the world’s leading bioeconomy—Uncertain times demand innovative and sustainable solutions

Bell, John; Paula, L. C. de; Dodd, Thomas J.H.; Németh, Szilvia; Nanou, Christina; Mega, Voula; Campos, Paula Scotti

doi:10.1016/j.nbt.2017.06.010

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“…In this sense, an intense interaction is necessary between industrial, academic, and socio-economic stakeholders. Programs such as the EU's Horizon 2020 (with close to 4 billion euros in support of bioeconomy-related research) [5] or the Bio-Based Industries Consortium that mix sectors such as agriculture, agri-food, technology providers, forestry/pulp and paper, and chemicals and energy [4] are good examples for the way in which to develop the bioeconomy and exploit its possibilities. Market incentives for commercialization of bio-based products, lower costs for intellectual property rights protection, and an intensive mobilization of new investors could help the bioeconomy achieve its potential capacity of generating wealth and employment.…”

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The Role of Bioeconomy Sectors and Natural Resources in EU Economies: A Social Accounting Matrix-Based Analysis Approach

2017

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Abstract:The bio-based economy will be crucial in achieving a sustainable development, covering all ranges of natural resources. In this sense, it is very relevant to analyze the economic links between the bioeconomic sectors and the rest of the economy, determining their total and decomposed impact on economic growth. One of the major problems in carrying out this analysis is the lack of information and complete databases that allow analysis of the bioeconomy and its effects on other economic activities. To overcome this issue, disaggregated social accounting matrices have been obtained for the highly bio-based sectors of the 28 European Union member states. Using this complex database, a linear multiplier analysis shows the future key role of bio-based sectors in boosting economic development in the EU. Results show that the bioeconomy has not yet unleashed its full potential in terms of output and job creation. Thus, output and employment multipliers show that many sectors related to the bioeconomy are still underperforming compared to the EU average, particularly those with higher value added; although, they are still crucial sectors for the wealth creation.

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The Role of Bioeconomy Sectors and Natural Resources in EU Economies: A Social Accounting Matrix-Based Analysis Approach

2017

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“…This vision of a circular approach to P management within the bioeconomy would, undoubtedly, require more coherent and integrated policy support that takes a longer‐term and strategic view of the wider sustainability and circularization goals of the bioeconomy and addresses current policy shortfalls. For example, existing EU bioeconomy policies have promoted the use of lower‐value applications (biofuels, bioenergy) instead of higher‐value applications (biochemical, biomaterials), reducing the opportunities for cascading reuse and recycling (Bell et al, 2018). Inevitably, the demands for biomass will impose greater pressures on the agricultural sector and on land, water, and P resources in the quest for growth of agricultural production, with a multitude of potentially conflicting sustainability challenges.…”

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“…The 350th anniversary of the discovery of P (Sharpley et al, 2018) provides an opportunity to use this element as a lens into past and future schemes to sustain humankind. Most recently, the bioeconomy has been hailed as the “next industrial revolution” for today's growing and increasingly affluent global population (Bell et al, 2018; European Commission, 2018; Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, 2009, 2018). …”

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Future Phosphorus: Advancing New 2D Phosphorus Allotropes and Growing a Sustainable Bioeconomy

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With more than 40 countries currently proposing to boost their national bioeconomies, there is no better time for a clarion call for a “new” bioeconomy, which, at its core, tackles the current disparities and inequalities in phosphorus (P) availability. Existing biofuel production systems have widened P inequalities and contributed to a linear P economy, impairing water quality and accelerating dependence on P fertilizers manufactured from finite nonrenewable phosphate rock reserves. Here, we explore how the emerging bioeconomy in novel, value‐added, bio‐based products offers opportunities to rethink our stewardship of P. Development of integrated value chains of new bio‐based products offers opportunities for codevelopment of “P refineries” to recover P fertilizer products from organic wastes. Advances in material sciences are exploiting unique semiconductor and opto‐electrical properties of new “two‐dimensional” (2D) P allotropes (2D black phosphorus and blue phosphorus). These novel P materials offer the tantalizing prospect of step‐change innovations in renewable energy production and storage, in biomedical applications, and in biomimetic processes, including artificial photosynthesis. They also offer a possible antidote to the P paradox that our agricultural production systems have engineered us into, as well as the potential to expand the future role of P in securing sustainability across both agroecological and technological domains of the bioeconomy. However, a myriad of social, technological, and commercialization hurdles remains to be crossed before such an advanced circular P bioeconomy can be realized. The emerging bioeconomy is just one piece of a much larger puzzle of how to achieve more sustainable and circular horizons in our future use of P. Core Ideas Society's vision for a more circular economy must go beyond the C cycle to include P. Some biofuel systems have widened P inequalities and contributed to a linear P economy. New bioeconomy in bio‐based products offers an opportunity to rethink P stewardship. A circular bioeconomy requires efficient P reuse, recovery, and recycling from waste. New 2D P allotrope technologies offer a potential antidote to our current P “paradox.”

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“…The broadly enterprise-friendly culture that has predominated since the age of the Enlightenment, and has been largely propitious for innovation, has functioned on the basis of a restrictive rather than permissive approach - that is to say, anything may be done as long as it has not been specifically restricted, rather than the antithetical permissive approach, in which nothing may be done unless it is expressly permitted [13]. …”

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Keeping the Person in Personalised Healthcare

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2017

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Proponents of personalised medicine believe that the involvement of the patients, including in “risk-sharing agreements,” will result in cost savings, the use of the genetic makeup of an individual patient as the starting point will save resources and, indirectly, there will be great potential for startups and new business in many areas. But how can Europe ensure that the “person” is central stage and allow us to focus on the development of personalised medicine for his or her ultimate benefit? The EU has a clear role to play, argues the author. One way for this to happen is for the EU to focus investment in guidelines for governance. This will go a long way to ensuring that the citizen is the principal factor when it comes to utilising the new wealth of innovation in health. The citizen must always come first when innovation is harnessed.

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EU ambition to build the world’s leading bioeconomy—Uncertain times demand innovative and sustainable solutions

Cited by 154 publications

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The Role of Bioeconomy Sectors and Natural Resources in EU Economies: A Social Accounting Matrix-Based Analysis Approach

The Role of Bioeconomy Sectors and Natural Resources in EU Economies: A Social Accounting Matrix-Based Analysis Approach

Future Phosphorus: Advancing New 2D Phosphorus Allotropes and Growing a Sustainable Bioeconomy

Keeping the Person in Personalised Healthcare

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