The bioeconomy concept

The bioeconomy concept is expanding rapidly. Around 50 countries, including the G7, have either a national strategy or policies consistent with a future bioeconomy. While many published strategies have laudable goals for solving large societal problems, they lack policy detail. Moreover, the bioeconomy concept means different things in different nations. As a result, gathering comparable metrics is becoming a real challenge. For these reasons, a policy framework for a bioeconomy would be useful for countries to identify their relative strengths and weaknesses, fill policy gaps and understand the bigger picture for the international bioeconomy. This chapter provides an overview for such a framework.

Meeting Policy Challenges for a Sustainable Bioeconomy

The bioeconomy concept

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