The Bioeconomy: Genesis and Modern Imperatives

Abstract

The history of origin, the essence, properties, and driving forces of the bioeconomy are disclosed. Three approaches to its interpretation are synthesized: technological, resource, and ecological. The foreign experience of implementation of the bioeconomy in economic activity of different branches is generalized. The place of the bioeconomy in development strategy of the leading world countries: USA, Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy, and participation in this process of the international organizations are researched. It is determined that the bioeconomic system should become a component of the national economy of the country. The socio-economic activity, based on the processes that have a biological basis, promotes: sustainable and efficient solution of problems in the food, chemical, forest industries, mechanical engineering, energy, health protection; formation of food security; preservation of ecological-economic equilibrium. The system of the following determinants of the bioeconomy: stability, entropy, renewal, symbiosis, unorthodoxness, dynamic efficiency has been proposed. The dynamic efficiency is part of a new perspective concept of the circular economics.

Keywords

• bioeconomy
• biotechnology
• sustainability
• renewable resources
• bioresources
• biomass