THE KNOWLEDGE BASED BIO-ECONOMY AT WORK: FROM LARGE SCALE EXPERIENCES TO INSTRUMENTS FOR RURAL AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

Guy Henry (1) , Eduardo J. Trigo (2)

1 UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs
2 Grupo CEO - Consultores en Economía y Organización

The new bio-economy is increasingly seen as a workable alternative to move today's economies in the direction of more sustainable natural resource use and economic growth. Most of existing experiences, both from science as well as from implementation of the Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) concepts, refer to relatively strong science basis and relatively large scales of application. This paper proposes to review existing advances in the implementation of the KBBE in small scale situations and identify what the key research, institutional and policy issues that need to be taken into account to further promote KBBE approaches to rural and local development. As such, the analytical approach used includes an extensive literature review in the form of a desk study, followed by a comparative analysis and the formulation of recommendations regarding S&T and policy agendas.

Mots clés: bio-economy; large vs. small scale; rural development; policy

Domaines: Agriculture, économie et politique

Guy Henry, Eduardo J. Trigo. THE KNOWLEDGE BASED BIO-ECONOMY AT WORK: FROM LARGE SCALE EXPERIENCES TO INSTRUMENTS FOR RURAL AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT. ISDA 2010, Jun 2010, Montpellier, France. 14 p. ⟨hal-00522968⟩