The NoRest conference in late October 2016 gathered experts from different research disciplines, governmental organisations and industry. The aim was to share information and stimulate innovation and collaboration in the Nordic bio-economy. Various topics were on the conference agenda, ranging from technical solutions in manufacturing to research in policies for system changes – all topics playing... Read More
SusValueWaste and BioSmart are both research projects part of the BIONAER-programme.The projects share the bioeconomy focus, but differ in several aspects. At the same time there are some areas that the two projects have in common. In September 2016, SusValueWaste visited BioSmart for a joint workshop in Trondheim. This was an opportunity for the two research... Read More
As part of SusValueWaste work package 1, the research paper “What is the Bioeconomy? A Review of the Literature” was published in Sustainability (open access) in July 2016. The aim of the article is to give a better understanding of the bioeconomy concept, since so far there has been little consensus about what the bioeconomy notion... Read More
SusValueWaste seminar at NIFU 10th of May, 2016. Rob Weterings, a senior strategist for Sustainable Innovation at the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands, held his seminar on the topic Resources for our future. The seminar discussed various concepts and practices in sustainable resource management, from efficiency via circularity to substitution. Weterings presented different examples of resources and also... Read More
According to a recent study from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, avoiding food loss can be an effective counteract on the growing food demand in the world. The study provides a systematic methodology to estimate consumer level food waste both on a national and global level, based on food availability and requirements. To calculate food requirements, the... Read More
SusValueWaste seminar at NIFU 05.04.2016. The seminar was about innovation barriers and industrial implementation of food waste recovery. An enormous amount of food waste is discharged worldwide which makes this an important topic when discussing sustainable development. Existing technologies can offer recovery and sustainability of high added-value ingredients inside the food chain. However, there are currently... Read More
Frank Geels is Professor of System Innovation and Sustainability at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, which is an inter-departmental institute at The University of Manchester. Geels held a presentation at University of Oslo (UiO) about dynamics and strategic implications of system innovation and sustainability transitions 18th of February. He talked about empirical evidence that shows that sustainability as... Read More
SusValueWaste seminar at NIFU 16.02.2016. Post-Doctoral Fellow Lea Fünfschilling at CIRCLE, Lund University presented her research about institutional logics of the urban water sector in Australia. The base for her research was the multi-level perspective of transformation processes which is criticized for not considering tensions, conflicts and confusions within systems. Her presented paper offers a conceptual... Read More
The Norwegian Government is aiming to present a national strategy for the Bioeconomy during the Autumn of 2016. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Jon Georg Dale, the Minister of Trade and Industry Monica Mæland, and the Minister of Fisheries Per Sandberg will be responsible for the preparation of the strategy. The strategy will take into... Read More
On the 3rd of July 2015 we had our kickoff meeting for work package 2 at NIFU in Oslo. Here we discussed the characteristics of the economic sectors important for our our case studies.
