Overview
- Discusses the fast-approaching wave ("bio-tsunami") of socio-technical transformation brought about by new applications of biosciences and biotechnologies
- Presents foresight mapping of the future of the bioeconomy by exploring the convergence of technological and innovation waves
- Includes bioscience and biotechnology applications in agriculture, food, health, energy, sustainability, and education
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This volume presents a timely recognition, warning and mapping of the fast approaching wave, or “bio-tsunami”, of global socio-technical transformation, built by a much wider spectrum of converging powers, including biotechnology, new agriculture, novel foods, health, quality of life, environment, energy, sustainability, education, knowledge management, and design of smart applications. The book contains eight sections corresponding to different clusters of bioeconomic and socio-technical change, as identified by the editors’ “Scanning the Horizon” foresight research; it also offers an integrated view of the future bioeconomy landscape though the convergence of several technologies that affect everyday life. The clusters offer methodologies for forecasting the future bioeconomy, and how these predictions can affect target-setting and the orientation of policies and actions to manage cultural and societal change, and achieve sustainable development in less developed areas. The book willbe of interest to researchers, producers, logistics experts, policy makers, regulators, business and financial institutions, and biotechnologists (e.g. geneticists, food experts, etc.).
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Towards Circular Bioeconomy and Biosociety
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Agro-Food and Healthcare Advancements
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Emmanuel Koukios is an Emeritus Professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Dr. Koukios is by formation a Chemical Engineer, a Bioresource Technologist, a Biomass Economist, and a Regional Development Scientist. His research group BIOTOPOS at NTUA is active in areas such as the engineering of biological systems, energy and chemicals from biomass, and technology management and strategy, with emphasis on the emergence of bioeconomy and biosociety. His relevant activities include chairing the Advisory Group of the European Commission’s FP7 Theme 2: KBBE (Knowledge-Based BioEconomy); coordinating the National Technology Foresight exercise in Greece; collaborating with the STAR*AgroEnergy Research Unit at the University of Foggia, Italy; and carrying out bioeconomy foresight research at the Institute for Sustainable Technologies at Radom, Poland.
Dr Anna Sacio-Szymańska is an analyst and strategic accounts manager at Warsaw-based corporate foresight company 4CF. During her academic career of 15 years she was working at the Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies where she gained extensive knowledge and experience in the public sector research, sustainability and innovation management, and technology foresight activities. She has published on foresight-informed decision-making in public policy planning, in the business sector and in career development. She has been a scientific reviewer for the Horizon 2020 calls for proposals on Supporting the Development of Territorial Responsible Research and Innovation. She is a Vice-President of Foresight Europe Network, a Member of the Polish Node of The Millennium Project and a Member of the Polish Society for Futures Studies. In her recent foresight assignments she contributes to the research on the technology foresight on biometrics for the future of travel; and she develops a methodological approach to enhance the individual capabilityof Futures Literacy through the method of poetry-writing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bio#Futures
Book Subtitle: Foreseeing and Exploring the Bioeconomy
Editors: Emmanuel Koukios, Anna Sacio-Szymańska
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64969-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64968-5Published: 07 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64971-5Published: 07 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64969-2Published: 06 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 644
Number of Illustrations: 105 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Renewable and Green Energy, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology, Biotechnology, Natural Resource and Energy Economics