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InnProBio series of factsheets about Bioeconomy (English version)

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Public procurement plays a vital role in Europe’s economic performance. EU public spending on purchasing supplies, works and services amounts to nearly 19% of the EU’s gross domestic product. This tremendous power from the European public sector can be used as a market pull mechanism to help boost the market of bio-based products and their associated services. 

By harnessing the potential of public procurement to foster innovation, InnProBio worked with the public sector to develop tools for purchasers, facilitate the creation of buyers groups, and increase awareness and incentives in order to lower the barriers to purchasing innovative bio-based products and services. Thus leading to the opening of new markets of bio-based products in Europe.

InnProBio outcomes include tools & resources, including fact sheets, state-of-the-art reports, a product database, guidance materials, and recommendations on the public procurement of bio-based products and services.

Among others, a series of fact sheets were published, covering: 

  • #1: What are bio-based products?
  • #2: Sustainability of bio-based products
  • #3: Biodegradability – Exposing some of the myths and facts
  • #4: Bio-based products and services in the circular economy
  • #5: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)

For the European Bioeconomy Library these 5 fact sheets have been integrated into a single document (in English).

SmartPilots Factsheets and Customer Survey Financial Instruments for Shared Pilots Facilities (SPF) in the Bioeconomy

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As Shared Pilot Facilities for the Key Enabling Technology ‘Industrial Biotechnology’ speed up sustainable innovation, they are a crucial element in dealing with societal challenges such as developing a sustainable, innovative and knowledge-based economy in Europe, creating jobs and meeting climate targets.
Shared Pilot Facilities are open access research and demonstration facilities investing in a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art equipment and offering required expertise with the aim to help innovative companies scale-up their successful research to an actual industrial innovation (= Technology Readiness Level – TRL increase). Collaboration, in an early stage of innovation, with open access shared pilot facilities maintaining a high level of innovation capability, substantially lowers the financial risk for the innovating company and speeds up the commercialization of their new product or process. The long lead time associated with commercialization of novel industrial biotechnology processes causes many companies to fail. Shared Pilot Facilities help companies to bridge this ‘valley of death’ by reducing time, cost and risk substantially when scaling up innovations from lab scale to industrial scale.
Furthermore, Europe recognizes too much R&D is deployed outside of Europe. Funds for support of the demonstration phase of promising innovations in the field of industrial biotechnology / bio-economy, are available, but companies find it difficult to access these funds. Shared Pilot Facilities can help companies to access these funds.

Brochure about Social Acceptance: Developing a dialogue with your stakeholders

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Many companies implementing emerging technologies encounter barriers or objections from consumers or local stakeholders. “Social acceptance” is the result of a process where stakeholders and project leaders work together to find solutions to these barriers and objections. It is important to be aware that the stakeholders affected by a new product or process go way beyond the SME’s customer base. Involving stakeholders in a series of activities to establish relationships is essential – there are tools for this. Tools will enable SMEs to achieve legitimacy and credibility regarding the stakeholder, form a strong and well-communicated company mission statement and clear long-term vision and set up long-term connections with their stakeholders, resulting in trust.

This guide takes you through the context and the theory behind the social acceptance concept. It addresses SME managers and business support organisations, presenting a number of tools which can be useful for those launching new products or services in the bio-based economy, and beyond.

The tools can be applied by SME managers in North West Europe, but there are the property of their authors (see references).

BioSTEP exhibition brochure: Bioeconomy in everyday life (in English)

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The bioeconomy holds potential solutions to important challenges of the future. The social, economic and environmental impacts associated with its products and processes, however, will require extensive dialogue processes on the future development of the bioeconomy.

BioSTEP aimed to promote a public dialogue on the goals of the Bioeconomy, to increase overall awareness and understanding, as well as consequences and benefits. It applied a three-tier approach to reach all relevant actors in the bioeconomy domain by using tailored communication tools, such as workshops, conferences, exhibitions and public debates on the bioeconomy.

BioSTEP exhibitions were organised in four locations: Glasgow, Brescia, Padua and Stara Zagora.  Included is the brochure (in English) showing samples of bio-based products in everyday life that were shown at the exhibition organised by BioSTEP in Glasgow,Scotland (2016).

BioSTEP exhibition brochure: Bioeconomy in everyday life (in Italian), Brescia edition

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The bioeconomy holds potential solutions to important challenges of the future. The social, economic and environmental impacts associated with its products and processes, however, will require extensive dialogue processes on the future development of the bioeconomy.

BioSTEP aimed to promote a public dialogue on the goals of the Bioeconomy, to increase overall awareness and understanding, as well as consequences and benefits. It applied a three-tier approach to reach all relevant actors in the bioeconomy domain by using tailored communication tools, such as workshops, conferences, exhibitions and public debates on the bioeconomy.

BioSTEP exhibitions were organised in four locations: Glasgow, Brescia, Padua and Stara Zagora.  Included is the brochure (in Italian) showing samples of bio-based products in everyday life that were shown at the exhibition organised by BioSTEP in Brescia, Italy (2017).

BioSTEP exhibition brochure: Bioeconomy in everyday life (in Italian), Padua edition

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The bioeconomy holds potential solutions to important challenges of the future. The social, economic and environmental impacts associated with its products and processes, however, will require extensive dialogue processes on the future development of the bioeconomy.

BioSTEP aimed to promote a public dialogue on the goals of the Bioeconomy, to increase overall awareness and understanding, as well as consequences and benefits. It applied a three-tier approach to reach all relevant actors in the bioeconomy domain by using tailored communication tools, such as workshops, conferences, exhibitions and public debates on the bioeconomy.

BioSTEP exhibitions were organised in four locations: Glasgow, Brescia, Padua and Stara Zagora.  Included is the brochure (in Italian) showing samples of bio-based products in everyday life that were shown at the exhibition organised by BioSTEP in Padua, Italy (2017).

BioSTEP exhibition brochure: Bioeconomy in everyday life (in Bulgarian)

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The bioeconomy holds potential solutions to important challenges of the future. The social, economic and environmental impacts associated with its products and processes, however, will require extensive dialogue processes on the future development of the bioeconomy.

BioSTEP aimed to promote a public dialogue on the goals of the Bioeconomy, to increase overall awareness and understanding, as well as consequences and benefits. It applied a three-tier approach to reach all relevant actors in the bioeconomy domain by using tailored communication tools, such as workshops, conferences, exhibitions and public debates on the bioeconomy.

BioSTEP exhibitions were organised in four locations: Glasgow, Brescia, Padua and Stara Zagora.  Included is the brochure (in Bulgarian) showing samples of bio-based products in everyday life that were shown at the exhibition organised by BioSTEP in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria (2017)