What would potential future opinion leaders like to know? An explorative study on the perceptions of four wood-based innovations

Ranacher, Lea; Höfferer, Kathrin; Lettner, Miriam; Hesser, Franziska; Stern, Tobias; Rauter, Romana; Schwarzbauer, Peter

doi:10.2478/boku-2018-0005

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“…Research on perceptions has been underrepresented compared to other research endeavors on the topic of the bioeconomy. Results from previous surveys indicate several reappearing themes, such as an optimistic outlook, concerns over risks, general lack of knowledge and mixed attitudes regarding bio-based products, e.g., [14,[22][23][24].…”

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“…For example, a lack of societal acceptance has been reported for biofuels [20] or genetically modified food [21] leading to limited market performance. Likewise, consumers have shown skepticism regarding environmental benefits of bio-based products and little recognition towards new bio-based products and technologies, like nanocellulose products, composites and building materials, e.g., [22][23][24].…”

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Understanding Perceptions of the Bioeconomy in Austria—An Explorative Case Study

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The bioeconomy provides new approaches to deal with environmental challenges by substituting fossil fuels for sustainable, renewable resources and fuels. In Europe, this process and discourse has mainly been driven from a strategic top-down level. This leads to a lack of inclusion of societal actors, which can consequently lead to reduced acceptance and engagement. Henceforth, in this study, we focus on exploring how the bioeconomy is perceived, understood and evaluated by a wider audience. Through convenience sampling, 456 interviews conducted with students, employees, farmers and pensioners living in Austria provide the database for the study. Due to the novelty of the study’s objective and the consequentially explorative research approach, qualitative and quantitative social science research methods are applied. The results indicate that the bioeconomy concept is associated with various themes and visions. These associated topics also have negative or positive implications. Furthermore, a division between two visions of the bioeconomy, a technology- and industry-driven vision and a vision defined by regional environmentalism, can be observed. The feasibility of a future bioeconomy identifies as the most critical aspect. Sustainable consumption was mentioned as an important topic of the bioeconomy by the participants, a result that could be of particular interest when creating an inclusive bioeconomy, since it calls for active involvement of consumers. The study also shows that responding farmers tend to believe that the bioeconomy will lead to more inequity.

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“…For example, bioenergy produced from perennial raw materials, such as woody biomass, can serve as an opportunity to strengthen local and regional economies and also jointly produce diverse environmental services (Hand & Tyndall, 2018). In addition, wood-based innovations can substantially contribute to the Bioeconomy and future competitiveness of the forest-based sector (Ranacher et al, 2018).…”

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Exploring Insights into the Bioeconomy in Strategic Groups

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“…In general, stakeholder perceptions of wood-based products seem to be positive. Stakeholders are interested in wooden construction, wooden furniture, wood-based packaging, and emerging woodbased products and innovations such as nanocellulose and its applications, and have a positive attitude towards them (e.g., Orzan et al, 2018;Ranacher et al, 2018). In this systematic literature review, most of the papers identified were focusing on perceptions of wood-based products in the built environment, including wood construction, furniture, and playground equipment.…”

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Stakeholder perceptions of wood-based products in the built environment: a literature review

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Current global environmental challenges, such as climate change, set an urge to seek renewable lowemission alternatives to substitute fossil fuel-derived products while transitioning towards circular bioeconomy. Wood has proven to be a versatile renewable material that is able to substitute fossilbased materials. However, the market potential and uptake of wood-based products is also dependent on the preferences of consumers and other stakeholder groups. This paper presents a systematic literature review of studies examining stakeholder perceptions of wood-based products, which also resulted in the identification of research gaps and suggestions for future research directions. The results show that while there has been an adequate amount of research concerning perceptions of wood construction and wood products in the built environment especially in recent years, the perceptions of other wood-based products and emerging innovations, such as wood-based textiles and chemicals have previously been studied only marginally. The results show that relevant stakeholders can be divided into two major groups: professionals at different places in the forest products value chain and end-users. Stakeholders are interested in wood-based products in the built environment, seen as competitive to conventional non-wood alternatives. Wood-based products are seen as interesting and environmentally friendly, but also expensive and not easily available. Moreover, there is a lack of information regarding product characteristics. To improve the market share of especially new wood-based products, the focus needs to be on both product development as well as providing information, including information on the environmental performance, on different products.

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What would potential future opinion leaders like to know? An explorative study on the perceptions of four wood-based innovations

Cited by 6 publications

References 45 publications

Understanding Perceptions of the Bioeconomy in Austria—An Explorative Case Study

Understanding Perceptions of the Bioeconomy in Austria—An Explorative Case Study

Exploring Insights into the Bioeconomy in Strategic Groups

Stakeholder perceptions of wood-based products in the built environment: a literature review

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