Project BBChina: a new Master Program in three Chinese Universities on Bio-Based Circular Economy; from Fields to Bioenergy, Biofuel and Bioproducts

Nibbi, Leonardo; Chiaramonti, David; Palchetti, Enrico

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.416

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“…The analysis of the cases offers evidence in terms of knowledge and competencies supporting young students, post-graduate students, start-up owners and entrepreneurs in their work of change agents, consistent with the CE principles (Hesselbarth and Schaltegger, 2014;IJEBR 27,8 Bergset, 2018;Jelonek and Urbaniec, 2019); this is consistent with the strategic role covered by education and training for developing sustainable business models and behaviours (Nibbi et al, 2019). Contextualized in terms of real problems, industrial contexts and technological knowhow for practical implementation by entrepreneurs and start-up operators, the evidence collected demonstrates that it is possible to overcome the risk of disconnection associated with education from a sustainable perspective (Foucrier and Wiek, 2019;Jelonek and Urbaniec, 2019).…”

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confidence: 67%

“…Another industrial domain of interest is identifiable as agri-food, in terms of circular agriculture (Zhu et al, 2019), agrobiodiversity (van Bueren et al, 2018, food network (Reckinger, 2018) and bio-refinery in agriculture (Viaggi, 2015). Further areas of interest are represented by bioenergy (Nibbi et al, 2019), water systems (Makropoulos et al, 2018), logistic (Tetsman, 2017), chemical and work environment (P€ a€ akk€ onen and Koponen, 2017) and raw materials (Pirard and Greberg, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sustainable entrepreneurship education for circular economy: emerging perspectives in Europe

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PurposeThe paper aims to contribute to the Circular Economy debate from the Entrepreneurship Education perspective. Despite scholars' growing interest in both these research streams, scarce consideration is given to the comprehension of their mutual implications and meaning.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a cross-case analysis. It compares 16 higher education programmes launched by Universities in Europe aimed to create competences and skills for Circular Economy in students with different profiles. The analysis provides a critical view of the emerging trends for the entrepreneurship education skills and competencies needed for the emerging circular entrepreneurship paradigm.FindingsThe paper discusses the main trends of Entrepreneurship Education focused on Circular Economy debate at the European level: rationale and learning objectives (why); contents (what), target students and stakeholders (who) and the learning processes (how). Four thematic areas are identified as common patterns: circular economy business model, green supply chain management, technology entrepreneurship and innovation and public policies and institutional frameworks.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper sheds new light on a still under-researched area, suggesting several implications and avenues for future research in Circular Economy and Entrepreneurship Education. Limitations regard the need to analyse education programmes from a larger geographical area, to take into consideration interesting experiences in the rest of the world and to also collect quantitative data.Practical implicationsPractical implications arise for the development of learning initiatives for the Circular Economy: learning objectives and new thematic areas focused on circular, sustainable and innovative rethinking of the process for creating value in the incumbent companies; exploring meaning and benefits of collaborative approaches and participation in the circular economy innovation ecosystem and developing advanced models for soft-skills development in terms of leadership, motivational and creative skills.Originality/valueThe debate on CE can also be rooted in the paradigm of entrepreneurship as a core process to advance knowledge on valuable and sustainable innovation.

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Sustainable entrepreneurship education for circular economy: emerging perspectives in Europe

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“…[1]. New study programmes on bio-based circular economy, bioenergy, biofuels and bioproducts [2], clean energy [3], bioeconomy [4], [5] have been established and implemented recently.…”

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Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

Pubule

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Teirumnieka

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Environmental and Climate Technologies

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The European Union has placed competence-based teaching and competence-based education as one of its highly relevant goals. Due to mass higher education, the assessment of effectiveness and relevance evaluation of environmental engineering study programmes should become an important issue. Presently the focus of the evaluation on multi-disciplinary study programmes varies from the evaluation of attitudes, impacts or effectiveness of utilisation-focused evaluation, summative evaluation and participatory evaluation approaches. The objective of this study was to propose an effective framework to evaluate the Environmental Engineering Master study programmes. During the research, the evaluation of existing study programmes on environmental engineering in Europe was conducted, information about the study courses, teaching methods, assessment methods and competences was used for the analysis. The results obtained showed that lectures, site visits, group coursework, practical laboratories and role-plays allows to reach the necessary knowledge, skills and competences and to provide an effective and relevant education to the Environmental Engineering Master programme students. The proposed evaluation framework was tested and approbated on new Riga Technical University Master study programmes on Environmental Engineering and Bioeconomy.

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“…Mengal et al (2018) [319] have written about the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking in the EU, which proposes to remove obstacles to private investment, and facilitate the delivery of bio-based products made from domestic renewable raw materials in advanced biorefineries adopting innovative technologies, superior, or at least comparable, to non-bio-based products in terms of price, performance, availability and sustainability, and in the process, create several employment opportunities. Duan et al (2020) [196], while chalking out a similar agenda for the future of the Chinese circular bioeconomy, which is also being bolstered in the country's universities by way of new postgraduate courses in bio-based circular economy [339], have used informative and attractive graphics, and references to numerous case studies, and, similar to [294], have listed a range of conversion technologies in an advanced biorefinery-continuous and semi-continuous fermentation, anaerobic digestion, transesterification, gasification, pyrolysis, enzymatic hydrolysis, enzymatic saccharification, composting etc., to yield a host of high-value bio-products in order to facilitate an attractive return on investment in the said technologies [320]. [389] point out that an integrated waste biorefinery model incurs lower capital investment costs and with the selection of appropriate technologies, and a widening of both the feedstock diversity and thereby the bio-product range results in higher revenues and is poised to become an indispensable part of a circular bioeconomy [14,180,246].…”

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Circular Bio-economy—Paradigm for the Future: Systematic Review of Scientific Journal Publications from 2015 to 2021

Govindarajan

2021

Circ.Econ.Sust.

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While ‘renewable’ is the keyword in a bioeconomy and resource conservation is the motivation behind a circular economy, a circular bioeconomy is one in which waste streams from renewable bio-resources are looped back into the technosphere—open-loop or closed-loop recycling or conversion from matter to energy. This systematic review brings together 385 publications from 2015 to 2021, originating from 50 countries and appearing in 150 journals, into a coherent account of the status quo of published research on circular bioeconomy. The numbers bear testimony to the growing interest in this field of research. Germany is the leading contributor to the scientific literature base (10%), while the Journal of Cleaner Production (9%) tops the list of journals in the fray. The methodology adopted has been clearly explained, and the discussion has been segmented into sub-sections and sub-sub-sections to do justice to the diversity of the nature of the publications. A little flexibility in organisation of the flow of the text has been availed of, to improve readability. The circular bioeconomy can be visualised as a set of ‘many through many to many’ relationships, enabling both economies of scale and scope in the longer run. This calls for extensive collaboration and cooperation among the numerous stakeholders involved. Several barriers will have to be overcome. Technology impact assessments and sustainability risk appraisals need to be carried out in order to ensure and convince stakeholders that they are on the right path. But as one knows and will appreciate, challenges lurk where there exist opportunities to be availed of, to replace the take-make-use-dispose paradigm of a linear economy to the grow-make-use-restore alternative. Graphical abstract

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Project BBChina: a new Master Program in three Chinese Universities on Bio-Based Circular Economy; from Fields to Bioenergy, Biofuel and Bioproducts

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Sustainable entrepreneurship education for circular economy: emerging perspectives in Europe

Sustainable entrepreneurship education for circular economy: emerging perspectives in Europe

Evaluation of the Environmental Engineering Study Programme at University

Circular Bio-economy—Paradigm for the Future: Systematic Review of Scientific Journal Publications from 2015 to 2021

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