Policy and Governance. Deliverable 2.1 of the ShapingBio Project

This publication is a deliverable of the project ShapingBio, a HorizonEurope funded Coordination and Support Action. Its aims are to gain a deeperunderstanding of the EU bioeconomy innovation eco-system and to derive recommendations on which measures should be taken, by EU, Member States, and others to strengthen bioeconomy innovation systems. In this deliverable, three in-depth analyses of bioeconomy policy and governance with nine case studies in six EU member states were conducted: Bioeconomy policy coordination on national level with case studies in Germany, Italy and Estonia Strategies to overcome policy and governance challenges in emerging bioeconomy sectors – The example of mainstreaming sustainable aquaculture to increase blue biomass, with case studies in Germany, Ireland and Denmark, and Fostering regional bioeconomy across the EU, with case studies in Bavaria (Germany), Southern Region (Ireland) and Southern Macedonia (Greece). Draft recommendations were derived for the European Commission and for policy makers in EU Member States and regions in different phases of the bioeconomy policy cycle how to improve their bioeconomy policies.