Title:
Factors Enabling Innovation Ecosystems for the Regional Bioeconomy Development
Author(s):
García Laverde, L., Szarka, N.
Document(s):
Paper
Slide presentation
Abstract:
Innovative approaches and agents that foster innovation in the regions are major catalysts for the transformation of deeply rooted fossil fuel-based economic systems into circular, bio-based systems. Through social, political, and technological innovation they enable the bioeconomy transformation. However, what makes innovation and its supportive systems thrive in a region? And what can be learned from different types of regions and their regional bioeconomies about innovation ecosystems and their improvement possibilities? In search of responses to those questions, we pursued to identify and acknowledge which factors are key to enabling innovation, particularly for bioeconomy in a regional context. As well as, to identify the most important of those enabling factors and in which way are they impacting the development, adoption, or adaptation of innovative practices. For that, we focalized on the five selected regions in the Horizon 2020 project BRANCHES, namely Northern Finland (North Ostrobothnia, Kainuu, and Lapland), Ebro-Valley in Spain (Aragon and Catalonia), Central Germany (Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia), Warmia and Mazury in Poland and Central Italy (Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Lazio and Abruzzi).
Keywords:
governance, innovative concepts, stakeholders, regional, biobased economy
Topic:
Biomass, Bio-based Products and Bioenergy Integration
Subtopic:
Resource efficient bioeconomy
Event:
32nd European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
3BO.15.4
Pages:
399 - 402
ISBN:
978-88-89407-24-0
Paper DOI:
10.5071/32ndEUBCE2024-3BO.15.4
Price:
FREE
