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White Paper “Bio-integrated Production for a Climate-neutral Circular Economy”
Would you like to find out more about the climate-neutral circular economy?
The Chair of Biotechnology and the WZL at RWTH Aachen University have jointly written a white paper on “Biointegrated production for a climate-neutral circular economy”.
Over the past 200 years, industrial revolutions and disruptive innovations have led to constant change in the economy and thus in society. Starting with industrialization and automation in the 19th century, globalization and digitalization in the 20th century, the next industrial revolution is now following: the biological transformation.
What does biological transformation mean? What materials are used for this? What products can be obtained in this way? And how can these new products be linked to current production technology? All these questions are answered in the white paper “Biointegrated production for a climate-neutral circular economy”. The document is currently only available in German.
Bioökonomie Start-up Puls
An estimated 15,000 jobs will be lost in Europe's largest lignite mining region by 2030 as a result of the coal phase-out. A research team at TU Dortmund University has now conducted the first structured investigation into the role that bioeconomy start-ups play in the structural change in the former Rhenish Mining Area.
The team led by Professor Steffen Strese and Professor Tessa Flatten recently published their findings in the first “Bioökonomie-Start-up Puls”.
Bioeconomy describes a sustainable form of economic activity based on biological resources. It encompasses all branches of industry that produce, process or use biological resources. The bioeconomy has been identified as an economic field with potential for the Rhineland region.
The start-ups that the TU team interviewed for the “Bioökonomie Start-up Puls” are, for example, developing innovative test platforms for new plant protection products, producing new functional carbohydrates from sugar beet or cultivating local and sustainable seafood. According to the report, the growth of bioeconomy start-ups in the Rhineland region is currently well behind the national cross-industry start-up growth trend. One of the reasons for this is that 51% of the start-ups surveyed rely on analog business models, whereas less than 10% of all start-ups in Germany rely on analog business models and more than 65% on digital business models, which can be scaled up much more quickly.
Innovation Report on the Bioeconomy Model Region in the Rhenish Mining Area
The first published innovation report of the project Bioökonomie Verstehen. Connect. Support. informs regional stakeholders about the current (structural) transformation of the Rhenish Mining Area into a model bioeconomy region and provides an overview of the topics of our accompanying research as well as initial findings. In addition, relevant perspectives of stakeholders from the Rhenish Mining Area are addressed and projects of our partners in the research network are highlighted.
The innovation report invites interested stakeholders to get in touch with our partners at Bioökonomie Verstehen. Verbinden. Unterstützen. and explore opportunities for cooperation together.