Abstract
The support of economic sectors that exploit natural bio-based resources in a particular region is an opportunity to benefit from local potentials in terms of sustainability, employment, output, and household income. Hence a relevant question emerges, namely, how can bioeconomy sectors be adequately supported? Within this context, another issue is whether the bioeconomy development strategy at a national level should be the same as that at a regional level. To address these issues, in the current study a comparison was made between the bioeconomy sectors at the country level based on the case study of Poland and one of the poorest regions in the European Union—the Lubelskie Region. A regional input–output model was built for the regional economy and compared with the national model. The bioeconomy-oriented regional input–output table was built by applying a hybrid regionalization method, combining non-survey techniques and a questionnaire survey that was carried out in companies of mixed bio-based sectors. Sectoral linkages, such as multipliers and elasticities, indicate notable differences among the bio-based sectors’ potentials of the regional and national economies. Therefore, a bioeconomy development strategy should be seen to differ at national and regional levels.
Highlights
IntroductionIt has been identified that the bioeconomy is not merely another material sector but concerns industrial value creation based on biological resources and waste, and as such it is linked to many scientific fields and disciplines [1]
As mentioned above, final calculations resulted in interesting outcomes concerning the relationships between the bioeconomy sectors and their potential, both at national and regional levels
Several were included in the published input-output tables as pure sectors, and others were disaggregated from mixed sectors
Summary
It has been identified that the bioeconomy is not merely another material sector but concerns industrial value creation based on biological resources and waste, and as such it is linked to many scientific fields and disciplines [1]. In 2017, this strategy was updated in a document entitled “Review of the 2012 European Bioeconomy Strategy”. We can identify many scientific studies assessing the contribution of bio-based activities to the achievement of the aforementioned objectives: the evaluation of the possibility of producing bioethanol from sorghum [4], the economic analysis of the use of plants in the bioeconomy [5], the evaluation of the possibility of using natural fertilizers for bioenergy [6], or the possibility of using straw for energy purposes [7]
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