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A Bioeconomy for the Baltic Sea Region
- impact, engaging the private sector and financing cooperation
18 September 2014
- by Thomas Winther (Innogate) and Henning Klarlund (Roskilde University)
Workshop Paper II:
“A Bioeconomy for the Baltic Sea Region
- Impact, engaging the private sector and financing cooperation”
About the Workshop Paper
At the first workshop in Tallinn 26-27 March 2014 it was concluded that in going
forward it is particularly important to “hit the ground”, i.e to:
• Ensure impact of cooperation activities.
• Engage more the private sector through cooperation efforts that are attractive to
companies.
• Support stakeholder in navigating between financial mechanisms for
cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region.
Workshop Paper II aims to address these issues to inspire further dialogue and
cooperation on tools and levers; good practices; and opportunities for going further.
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
AND SHAPE OF THE
BIOECONOMY
ASSETS
Growing the bioeconomy by private sector sector engament
… and
Test facilities Clusters
Demonstration & awareness Eco-labelling
”Creative” financing
Public procurement
Industrial Symbiosis
Biorefineries
Productivity enablers Market enablers
Innovation and technology enablers Financial enablers
Confidence and stability enablers
Science: Progress of knowledge, thanks to advances in
theories, methodologies, models, and facts.
Research policy: Influences how policy makers and
policies act. It can provide evidence that influences policy
decisions and can enhance citizens’ participation in
scientific, environmental, societal, economic and
technological decisions.
Training: Curricula, pedagogical tools, qualifications, entry
into the workforce, etc.
Technology: Product, process, and service innovations, as
well as technical know-how, are types of impacts that partly
result from research activities.
IMPACTS
Economy: Organisation’s budgetary situation e.g. operating
costs, revenues, profits, the sale price of products; on the
sources of finance, investments and production activities; and on
the development of new markets.
Culture: Knowledge and understanding of ideas and reality, as
well as intellectual and practical skills, attitudes, interests, values,
and beliefs.
Society: Welfare, behaviour, practices, and activities of people
and groups, including their wellbeing and quality of life. It also
concerns customs and habits: consumption, work, sexuality,
sports, and food.
Organisation: Activities of institutions and organisations:
planning, organisation of work, administration, human resources,
etc.
IMPACTS cont.
Health: Public health, e.g. life expectancy, prevention of
illnesses, and the health-care system.
Environment: Management of the environment, notably
natural resources and environmental pollution, as well as the
impacts on climate and meteorology.
Symbolic: Gains in areas such as credibility due to e.g.
undertaking R&D.
IMPACTS cont.
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Time-dependent
INDICATORS
Inputs – assets, financial and human resources,
communication, cooperation.
Outputs – discoveries, publications, citations, patents,
etc.
Transfers/Exchanges – engagement with end-users.
Outcomes – new/improved products, services, or
processes.
Impacts – achieved improvements.
Benefits – to society.
Engaging the private sector. Good practices
Biorefineries: -Converting biomass (trees, energy crops, waste etc) to a wide range of products, including food,
feed, chemicals, materials, and energy…. New opportunities, new value chains.
Test facilities: -To reduce costs of testing, in particular for SMEs. Fact: Technology-based companies cluster
around test centres. Governments may facilitate. Smart specialisation opportunity in the BSR.
Life-Science-, cleantech- and bio-clusters: -3Helix industry hubs servicing companies with improved business enabling environment,
business match-making, investor attraction, internationalisation etc.
-Cooperation between and across these cluster, engaging also with other clusters such as ICT,
provides new opportunities.
Business meeting places: -Business match-making, innovation competitions, product fairs/conference
…. continued….Engaging the private sector: Good practices
Industrial Symbiosis: -Kalundborg: 20 companies participate in a cycle whereby residuals products (previously
considered as waste) becomes a production input in another company.
Public Procurement: -BSR Green Public Procurement project provides an overview of good practices. Accounting for
20% of consumption public procurement may create new demand. E.g. the Municipality of
Mariagerfjord created a market worth EUR 150 Mio pa. for locally produced bioenergy.
Eco-labelling -Has been key for organic food production and consumption. Also Nordic Swan for non-food
environmentally favourable products.
Private financing: -Energy Service Companies and Energy Performance Contracting have proved their business
case within energy efficiency, and also within renewable energy. Further opportunities for the
bioeconomy, if current externalities is more appropriately priced.
-Financial innovations such as crowd funding and local capital also offer new opportunities.
…. continued….Engaging the private sector: Good practices
Showcasing and storytelling:
-Baltic Deal: Uniting farmers and farmers’ advisory organisations to improve agri-environmental
practises. Result: Reduced nutrient losses from farms while at the same time maintaining
production and competiveness. Win-win, good story, engages others to also succeed.
-Baltic Manure: Aimed to change the perception of manure as waste, but rather as a resource –
including by identifying environmentally sustainable business opportunities through improved
management and use of manure.
-Submariner: Developed a compendium and road map for furthering sustainable development in
the Baltic Sea Region through environmentally friendly and economically attractive uses of
marine technologies.
Implications for going further?
Multiplication of good business practices -Storytelling, communication… inspire to embrace the bioeconomy
Multiplication of good policy practices -Storytelling, communication… both carrot and stick
Network existing resources and efforts -Realise synergies, avoid dupplication (cluster programmes; science- and business parks;
business and investor matchmaking platforms, funding schemes etc.)
… it is about win-win…. and it is about a BSR bioeconomy internal market…
Financing the transition towards the bioeconomy in the BSR?
The transition will only be genuinely realized when and if the private sector
embrace the bioeconomy…
… but the public sector can play an important role in seeding, fertilizing and
enabling multiplication of practices and models for growing the bioeconomy.
Funding available for development of the bioeconomy at different levels:
-European Union
-Transnational support from NCM, Nordic Institutions, CBSS and Si
-National
-Regional/local
Financing the transition towards the bioeconomy in the BSR?
European Union support:
-Horizon 2020
-The Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020
-The Central Baltic and The South Baltic programmes
-EUSBSR Seed Money Facility
…. and also national and regional European Union co-financed regional
development programmes.
Financing the transition towards the bioeconomy in the BSR?
CBSS:
-Project Support Facility.
Si:
-Seed funding for projects between Swedish partner and South-Eastern partner.
NCM:
-NCM Bioeconomy Seed Financing.
-Nordic institutions and cooperation bodies – such as Nordic Agricultural
Committee for Agricultural and Food Research, Nordic Forest Research, Nordic
Gene Resource Centre, Nordic Innovation, Nordic Research Council, and Nordic
Energy Research.
Growing the bioeconomy by private sector sector engament
… and
Test facilities Clusters
Demonstration & awareness Eco-labelling
”Creative” financing
Public procurement
Industrial Symbiosis
Biorefineries
Productivity enablers Market enablers
Innovation and technology enablers Financial enablers
Confidence and stability enablers
Assets
Enablers
Vehicles