Practice abstract: The German Bioeconomy and supporting knowledge on the transition to a local circular bioeconomy

Bioeconomy covers all industrial and economic sectors that use renewable biological resources to manufacture products and provide services using innovative biological and technological knowledge and processes. This includes all industries that produce, process or use biological resources in any form, such as agriculture/food; forestry, energy, fisheries/aquaculture, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, industrial biotechnology, cosmetics, paper and textiles, and environmental protection.