The Spanish Bioeconomy Strategy was adopted by the end of 2015 after a political agreement between the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment. This strategy defines bioeconomy as the range of economic activities that offer products and services, providing economic profit, using efficiently and sustainably the biological resources as main elements. Its objective is the production and trade of food and forestry products, bioproducts and bioenergy, obtained thanks to physical, chemical, biochemical or biological transformation of organic matter not addressed to human or animal consumption. It has to be respectful with the environment and the development of rural areas.
The national strategy pivots on the public sector, in charge of enhancing, dynamizing and coordinating the strategy, the productive and technological bioeconomy sectors, key agents in the mobilization of the economic activity, as well as the R+D+i+F system, in charge of producing knowledge and technological development in the scope of bioeconomy. Thus, the Spanish strategy is based on the triangle science-economy-society. Specifically, as mentioned by the strategy itself: “knowledge in the scientific scope must be used to develop a production activity allowing us to keep growing in those areas accepted and shared by our society. It needs therefore, the direct and indirect participation of all stakeholders within that triangle”.
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