Development of Biorefineries in the Bioeconomy: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis among European Countries

dc.bibliographicCitation.date2022
dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage90
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue1
dc.bibliographicCitation.journalTitleSustainabilityeng
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume14
dc.contributor.authorDing, Zhengqiu
dc.contributor.authorGrundmann, Philipp
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-03T04:38:34Z
dc.date.available2023-04-03T04:38:34Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis study aims to identify the configurational conditions that characterize the establish-ment of biorefineries in 20 European countries. After determining the conditions which support a bioeconomy transition, secondary data from national sources are used to represent their existing conditions within respective countries. Then, a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is em-ployed to compare and contrast the effect of varying combinations of the selected conditions on the development of biorefineries. The conditions chosen include coherent bioeconomy strategies, network intensity of regional bioclusters, intellectual capital, and natural resource availability. Our results reveal that the configuration of a coherent bioeconomy strategy, sizable public spending on R&D, abundant biomass supply, and a high level of network intensity is sufficient to explain the pro-nounced biorefineries development among some European countries. We recommend that countries with fragmented approaches review and redesign the policy and regulatory framework to create a holistic and consistent bioeconomy strategy, taking into account the configurations of conditions as an important prerequisite. In particular, factors such as the lack of best practice examples, the low level of public spending on research and development, the economic capacities for a skilled workforce in addition to the sustainable supply of raw materials should be addressed as focal points.eng
dc.description.fondsLeibniz_Fonds
dc.description.versionpublishedVersioneng
dc.identifier.urihttps://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/11850
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34657/10883
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBasel : MDPI
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su14010090
dc.relation.essn2071-1050
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 4.0 Unported
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subject.ddc333.7
dc.subject.ddc690
dc.subject.otherBioeconomy developmenteng
dc.subject.otherBiorefinerieseng
dc.subject.otherConfigurations of condi-tionseng
dc.subject.otherFuzzy-seteng
dc.subject.otherQualitative comparative analysiseng
dc.subject.otherTransition frameworkeng
dc.titleDevelopment of Biorefineries in the Bioeconomy: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis among European Countrieseng
dc.typeArticleeng
dc.typeTexteng
tib.accessRightsopenAccess
wgl.contributorATB
wgl.subjectUmweltwissenschaftenger
wgl.typeZeitschriftenartikelger
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