Very happy to have attended the XVIII #EAAE Congress in Bonn last week and reconnected with a lot of old colleagues! Looking forward to the next one in Croatia!

We validate these conceptual models interviewing experts from business/academia/government. We conclude that while #BioeconomyUpgrading may lead to new business opportunities to some actors, there are risk linked to market concentration by lead firms & exclusion of low-income groups. 6/6

Building on the literature on #ValueChainManagement & #IndustrialOrganization, we propose six conceptual models that help us analyze the morphology of different VCs as they move toward a fully upgraded Bioeconomy. We illustrate these using business cases ranging from biofuels to biosimilars. 4/6

In this process there is a codetermination between characteristics of innovation & organizational structure of VCs. While managers might have to change how their business operate to adopt new processes/inputs, some VC features are more conducive to fostering #EndogenousInnovation processes. 3/6

We start defining the concept of #BioeconomyUpgrading, which in a nutshell means moving away from biomass-intensive tech towards options that use less biomass or feedstock that doesn't compete for food/land. This minimizes trade-offs between economic growth and environmental sustainability. 2/6