ILVO research focus in the bioeconomy
- System innovation - facilitating the transition from agri-food to bioeconomy
Adapting existing and configuring new value chains, logistics, new institutional arrangements, facilitating and organizing (system) innovation processes, designing resilient systems (business, sector, technology, agro-food systems), introducing a systemic perspective in research, adapting policy, legislation and legal frameworks.
- Sustainable use of natural resources
Closing carbon and nutrient cycles, energy and resource efficiency, resource intensity, resource fingerprinting, carbon storage/sequestration, the reduce-reuse-recycle principle.
- Primary production of biomass
Agricultural (technical), ecological and economic aspects of primary biomass production.
- Optimal valorisation of locally processed biomass
Innovative process and product development; optimal valorisation of by-products from plant and animal production and the associated processing industries; creation of added value.