Birch, Kean; Levidow, Les; Papaioannou, Theo - 2010
As an EU policy agenda, the knowledge-based bio-economy (KBBE) emphasizes bio-technoscience as the means to reconcile … environmental and economic sustainability. This frames the sustainability problem as an inefficiency to be overcome through a techno-knowledge … knowledge, especially through intellectual property. In these ways, the KBBE can be understood as a new political …