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A seven-step approach is proposed for the assessment and management of bioeconomy-related developments affecting the pathway of transition economies and societies. The particular action steps of this approach include methodological elements from various fields, with emphasis on future-oriented methods, especially horizon scanning, identification of key drivers and barriers and scenario-building. These are combined with other relevant tools, such as mapping, techno-economic evaluation, technology assessment and strategy and policy analysis. This approach is applied in this paper to the case of Poland, a country currently in the process of preparing its bioeconomy strategy in the frame of regional and national smart specialisation efforts.
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This paper was based on the original research prepared in the frame of the project titled “The New Tsunami of Socio-Technical Change: Foresight Agro/Bio/Chemo/Eco/Cogno … Convergence (BIO-TSUNAMI)”, supported by the POLONEZ 1 Programme of the National Science Centre (NCN) with contract no. UMO-2015/19/P/HS4/04103. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 665778.
The authors are particularly grateful to the Institute for Sustainable Technologies – NRI, Radom, Poland, for their permission of the use of material included in the ITeE monograph: Koukios E., Mazurkiewicz A., Sacio-Szymańska A., Poteralska B. (eds.), The Emergence of Bio-Economy, Opportunities and Risks – A Forward-Looking Study, ISBN 978-83-7789-484-2. ITeE-PIB, Radom, 2017, which was based on the above-mentioned project, and of which monograph the four co-editors are co-authors of the present work.
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Koukios, E., Karaoglanoglou, L., Ciechanska, D., Mazurkiewicz, A., Poteralska, B., Sacio-Szymańska, A. (2020). Assessing the Emergence of Bioeconomy in Transition Economies by a Future-Oriented Approach: The Case of Poland. In: Keswani, C. (eds) Bioeconomy for Sustainable Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9431-7_9
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