“Innovation ecosystems in the bioeconomy” examines the policy aspects of building the industrial and innovation ecosystems and value chains needed to make a bioeconomy viable as a sustainable means of production. While building biorefineries is more like a formulaic exercise in engineering,...

Several countries have been setting up strategic roadmaps to support marine biotechnologies that could drive innovation and help address the global sustainability goals of food, energy, and health. The report identifies and begins to address challenges facing cooperation on marine biotechnology...

The bioeconomy concept: then and now -- Reconciling food and industrial needs for biomass -- Measuring biomass potential and sustainability -- Biotechnology and biomass sustainability -- What is a biorefinery: definitions, classification and general models -- Financing biorefineries -- Biowaste...