This work, led by the SUPERGEN Bioenergy Hub of United Kingdom (UK), examines the current status of the UK bioenergy research, identifies important research gaps and makes recommendations for exploitation of current capabilities and future research development. It was based on a survey-based research covering 71 bioenergy research stakeholders’ responses and a taxonomy map with key bioenergy topics and subtopics carefully defined. This novel study adapts the concept of “business intelligence” to innovation, in order to transform data into actionable intelligence that informs about strategic decisions.

The map shows that the UK bioenergy research explores the whole bioenergy chain, and the areas with high probability of exploitation and improvement identified are: biomass pre-treatment; application of bioenergy products and standardisation, portfolio of commercialisation opportunities, and research into market opportunities. Working on them will help technology and bio-products to be market-ready.

To complement the outcomes of this map, a scientometric review was done through analysing the trend of the number of publication, publication impacts, and stakeholders’ co-authorships. The study reveals that pyrolysis had the highest number of publications during 2017, in agreement with the major number of participants; and the highest publication growth was found in both pyrolysis and gasification. Conversely, combustion, which had the lowest number of stakeholders (by 30%), had the highest number of publications until 2015, indicating combustion research is more concentrated in specific stakeholders. Hydrolysis and fermentation showed high number of research stakeholders, but the lowest number of publications suggest that more effort in publication should be done.

这项工作由英国SUPERGEN生物能源中心领导，研究了英国生物能源研究的现状，确定了重要的研究差距，并就当前能力和未来研究的发展提出了建议。它基于一项基于调查的研究，涵盖71个生物能源研究利益相关者的回答以及一个分类图，其中明确定义了关键的生物能源主题和子主题。这项新颖的研究使“商业智能”的概念适应了创新，以便将数据转换为可告知战略决策的可操作智能。

该地图显示，英国的生物能源研究探索了整个生物能源链，发现的具有开发利用和改善潜力的区域包括：生物质预处理；生物能源产品的应用和标准化，商业化机会的组合以及对市场机会的研究。对它们进行研究将有助于技术和生物产品进入市场。

为了补充此地图的结果，通过分析出版物数量，出版物影响和利益相关者共同著作的趋势，进行了科学计量审查。该研究表明，热解在2017年期间的出版物数量最多，与大多数参与者一致; 在热解和气化过程中，出版物的增长最高。相反，到2015年，燃烧的利益相关者数量最少（达30％），出版物的数量也最多，这表明燃烧研究更集中于特定的利益相关者。水解和发酵显示出研究利益相关者的数量很高，但是发表论文的数量最少，表明在发表方面应该做更多的努力。