Transition governance towards a bioeconomy: A comparison of Finland and The Netherlands

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Bosman, Rick ^a   Rotmans, Jan ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biobased economy; Bioeconomy; Finland; The Netherlands; Transition management

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC PLANNING; ECONOMIC SYSTEM; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INNOVATION; MARKET TRANSITION; RESEARCH METHOD; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

FINLAND; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84994887835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8101017     Document Type: Article

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