ABSTRACT

The bioeconomy encompasses the extraction, processing and transformation of renewable biological resources and waste streams, connected to activities as diverse as food, feed, energy and manufacturing. Under the auspices of the European Union’s ‘Green Deal' strategy, this broad collective of sectors is promoted as a cornerstone for achieving sustainable growth. Progress in developing ex-ante tools of economy-wide modelling analysis to assess its performance is, however, hindered by a paucity of consistent and comprehensive data. To overcome this shortcoming, the construction steps for a new set of open access social accounting matrices (dubbed ‘BioSAMs’) is described for a detailed and comprehensive selection of traditional and contemporary bio-based accounts for each of the EU member states. To illustrate its potential, a structural analysis based on three different and complementary methods (Rasmussen-Jones, hypothetical extraction method and eigenvector) is performed to classify bio-based sector wealth generating properties and to identify high performance (‘key') sectors.

摘要

生物经济包括可再生生物资源和废物流的提取、加工和转化，与食品、饲料、能源和制造等各种活动相关。在欧盟“绿色新政”战略的支持下，这一广泛的行业集体被提升为实现可持续增长的基石。然而，由于缺乏一致和全面的数据，开发整体经济建模分析的事前工具以评估其绩效的进展受到阻碍。为了克服这个缺点，描述了一组新的开放获取社会会计矩阵（称为“BioSAMs”）的构建步骤，用于详细和全面地选择每个欧盟成员国的传统和现代生物基账户。为了说明它的潜力，