ABSTRACT

Bioeconomy policy is often labelled a policy field or at least an emerging policy field. But is it really one? And how can one tell and what does it mean? Drawing on the scarce research on what exactly are policy fields and what are the factors driving their emergence, we aim to answer these questions based on the definition of a policy field as a specific and long-term constellation of related problems, actors, institutions and instruments. Empirically drawing on the European Union and Germany, in a first step we find that bioeconomy policy can be characterised as an emerging policy field at most, as it is limitedly institutionalised and lacks a genuinely bioeconomy-related actor constellation and problem structure. Moreover, there are hardly any bioeconomy-specific instruments in place. In a second step, we find that the fragmented institutional and regulatory landscape particularly hinders the establishment of bioeconomy policy as a policy field, as do the ambiguity and inconsistency of its overarching goals as well as its fragile supportive actor constellations. As a result, bioeconomy policy to date rather serves as a conceptual umbrella for a number of already existing policies, so far with little tangible effect.

摘要

生物经济政策通常被标记为政策领域，或者至少被标记为新兴政策领域。但这真的是一个吗？谁能说出来，这是什么意思呢？基于对究竟是什么政策领域以及什么因素推动它们出现的稀疏研究，我们旨在根据政策领域的定义来回答这些问题，政策领域是相关问题，参与者，机构和组织的特定和长期的星座。仪器。从经验上借鉴欧盟和德国，第一步，我们发现生物经济政策最多可以被描述为一个新兴的政策领域，因为它制度化程度有限并且缺乏真正与生物经济相关的参与者群体和问题结构。此外，几乎没有任何针对生物经济的手段。第二步 我们发现，分散的制度和监管格局特别阻碍了生物经济政策作为政策领域的建立，其总体目标的模糊性和前后矛盾以及脆弱的支持行为者群体也是如此。结果，迄今为止，生物经济政策是许多现有政策的概念性保护伞，迄今收效甚微。