Experience of Some Asian Leading Countries in Bioeconomy Organizing
https://doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2025-1-148-171
Abstract
Bioeconomy has become one of the most dynamic and promising sectors of the world economy, which has proven opportunities to use biotechnology to reduce production costs, obtain fundamentally new products, including those that reduce the anthropogenic impact on the environment or fundamentally transform sectors of the economy. With this in mind, we analyze the experience in the bioeconomy development of some countries in the Asian region, including China and India, the largest in terms of population, as well as several other countries (Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia), leading in terms of innovation activity. Some features of economic activity systems organization in these countries related to the productive forces and production relations state, as well as the functioning of bioproducts markets are characterized. Based on the identified features of bioeconomy institutional development in ten countries of eastern, southeast and south Asia, a generalized functional model of bioeconomy organization was formed. In addition, a qualitative analysis of biotechnologies creating and using process organization for the development of national bioeconomies was carried out. Аs a result, the author was able to identify the main determinants of bioeconomy development in the countries of the this region.
About the Author
E. S. Titova
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institute of Higher Education “Plekhanov Russian University of Economics”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
TITOVA Ekaterina S., Cand. Sc. (Econ.), Leading Researcher of the Education Development Research Institute
36, Stremyanny Lane, Moscow, 109992
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