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New report released on the global bio‑based polymer market 2023 – a deep and comprehensive insight into a dynamically growing market. The year 2023 was a promising year...

The yearly-updated report, first published in 2016, shows that Europe's bio-based industries contribute over 814 billion EUR. This constitutes an increase of 34 billion EUR (+4...

The Biomass Utilisation Factor (BUF) is a new metric combining cascading use and production efficiency into one indicator to investigate the circularity of materials for the circular bioeconomy. Cascading use...

The new data for 2018 demonstrates that the bio-based industries made a contribution of 780 billion EUR, to the European economy a notable increase of 30 billion EUR (+ 4%)...

The nova paper #14 gives an overview on the status and sustainability assessments of new food and biomass technologies such as organic farming, insect protein, artificial meat, precision...

View 2017 data on employment and value added for the European bioeconomy in an infographic.

In 2017, a study conducted by nova-Institute on behalf of BIC showed for the first time which macroeconomic effects are generated by these activities, e.g. turnover and employment for the years...

The nova paper #9 aims at highlighting the most important aspects related to bioeconomy and circular economy, clarifying some common misconceptions and addressing limitations.

Cascading use is the efficient utilisation of resources by using residues and recycled materials for material use to extend total biomass availability within a given system. Cascading at the market...