Bio-Efficiency: On the valorisation of innovation in the bioeconomy

Oscar Krüger & Alexander Paulsson (2025) Valuation Studies, 12(1), pp. 96-118. Open access Abstract. This article discusses a concept that institutions from the OECD to the EU increasingly employ in their response to the ecological crisis: The bioeconomy, wherein materials for economic activity would be bio-based and renewable. As a present-day project, the bioeconomy translates the critique of (fossil) carbon into patterns of (material) resource use and (economic) resource allocation, not l...