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Constructing an open access economy-wide database for bioeconomy impact assessment in the European Union member states
The bioeconomy encompasses the extraction, processing and transformation of renewable biological resources and waste streams,
connected to activities as diverse as food, feed, energy and manufacturing. Under the auspices of the European Unionâs âGreen Dealâ
strategy, this broad collective of sectors is promoted as a cornerstone
for achieving sustainable growth. Progress in developing ex-ante
tools of economy-wide modelling analysis to assess its performance
is, however, hindered by a paucity of consistent and comprehensive data. To overcome this shortcoming, the construction steps
for a new set of open access social accounting matrices (dubbed
âBioSAMsâ) is described for a detailed and comprehensive selection of
traditional and contemporary bio-based accounts for each of the EU
member states. To illustrate its potential, a structural analysis based
on three different and complementary methods (Rasmussen-Jones,
hypothetical extraction method and eigenvector) is performed to
classify bio-based sector wealth generating properties and to identify
high performance (âkeyâ) sectors