Introduction to bioeconomy - New value chains, Innovation and basic Economics in the Bioeconomy

Course Description

‘’The bioeconomy, as a catalyst for systemic change, tackles the economic, social and environmental aspects of the world by seeking new ways of producing and consuming resources while respecting our planet’s limits and moving away from a linear economy based on extensive use of fossil and mineral resources’’ as quoted by the “How the bioeconomy contributes to the European Green Deal” publication. As defined in the EC’s updated Bioeconomy Strategy (2018), bioeconomy covers “all sectors and systems that rely on biological resources (animals, plants, micro-organisms and derived biomass, including organic waste), their functions and principles. It includes and interlinks land and marine ecosystems and the services they provide; all primary production sectors that use and produce biological resources; and all economic and industrial sectors that use biological resources and processes to produce food, feed, biobased products, energy and services.”