La Bioeconomia Circolare:

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Outline:Circular Economy

BioeconomyWhy should we invest ?

The 4 Industrial RevolutionsOne Mission

Leverage B. S. D. E.

Danilo Porro

Circular Economy: a Specialist Concept

The circular economy is a reality. More than 90 % of companies

surveyed by different international agencies, report implementing elements

of circular supply chains. When it comes to what exactly they’re

prioritizing, …. most just name recycling

Circular Supplies: Provide renewable energy, bio-based or fully recyclable input

material to replace single-lifecycle inputs

Resource Recovery: Recover useful resources/energy out of disposed products or by-

products

Product Life Extension: Extend working lifecycle of products and components by

repairing, upgrading and reselling

Sharing Platforms: Enable increased utilization rate of products by making possible

shared use/access/ownership

Product as a Service: Offer product access and retain ownership to internalize

benefits of circular resource productivity

Circular Economy: 5 primary business models

The figure reports the world chemicals sales: 3534 billions € (2016)

Europe accounts for 16.7% of the total.

Many of these chemical compounds can be made biologically by (1) engineering the cellular

metabolism and (2) through the design of cell factories and (3) by bioconversion.

Already on 2015, 3 % of the base chemicals, 9 % of the specialty chemicals, 12 % of the

consumer chemicals and 33 % of the pharma ingredients are produced from biological sources.

The world GDP is about 80 T€

Basic chemicals, .. are divided into chemicals derived from oil, known as

petrochemicals, polymers, basic inorganics

Speciality chemicals, .. this category covers a wide variety of chemicals for crop

protection, paints and inks, colorants (dyes and pigments). It also includes

chemicals used by industries as diverse as textiles, paper and engineering.

Consumer chemicals, .. consumer chemicals are sold directly to the public. They

include, for example, detergents, soaps and other toiletries.

Pharmaceuticals, ..

.... chemicals ….

The world GDP is about 80 T€

It is not just because of these high

productions, these high numbers, high

sales and huge employments …

… that Bioeconomy should be

considered as Bioengine for

economic , environment and

social biosustainability.

Why should weinvest in

bioeconomy ?

….. not only because …. of the direct economy

- The urban population of the world has grown rapidly from 746 millions in 1950 to

3.9 billions in 2014, .. to 7.5 billions today.

- Since 2014, 54 % of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is

expected to increase to 66% by 2050.

- Mega cities with more than 10 millions people are increasing in number

- Small cities are numerous and many are growing rapidly

- Rural populations expected to decrease as urban populations continue to grow

- 85% of the world economic activities fall in these cities.

- Every year people harvest about 13 billions tonnes wastes (cities aggregate

biological materials and nutrients from rural areas, but return few to the agriculture

system)

This is NOT sustainable … not anymore …

Smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller

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The circular economy concept should evolve from a Specialist Concept

to a main Stream Business and Public Policy Strategy ….

Managing urban areas has become one of

the most important development

challenges of the 21st century.

As cities develop new roles, there is huge

potential to combine benefits in health,

environment and the economy, taking

into account the organization of society

(i.e. consumption, transportation,

production, waste management, and

infrastructure), ….integrating life-style,

environment and well-being.

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Pollution is indeed the biggest environmental cause of illness and premature death in world.

Diseases caused by pollution have been responsible for about 9 million premature deaths in

2015 alone (about 16% of all deaths worldwide, three times more deaths than AIDS,

tuberculosis and malaria considered as a whole, and 15 times more than all the wars and

other forms of violence, always considered as a whole). (The Lancet Commission on pollution

and health, Published online October 19, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-

6736(17)32345-0).

In the most severely affected countries, pollution-related diseases are responsible for more than

one in four deaths. Pollution disproportionately kills the poor.

data, data, data, …. NOT opinions

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Diseases such as cancer, are caused by DNA mutations. Such mutations can be inherited

(H), induced by the environment / lifestyle (E) and as a result of errors (R) during the

replication of the genetic material.

In a recent study, the incidence of cancer forms was examined in 69 different countries,

representing as a whole over 4.8 billion people (about 2/3 of the world population).

It has been estimated that better protection of the environment and a better lifestyle can

prevent between 20-40% of the cancer forms (Stem cell divisions, somatic mutations, cancer

etiology, and cancer prevention, Science 355, 1330 -1334, 2017).

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data, data, data, …. NOT opinions

… the 4 Industrial Revolutions

… back to bioCircularity

In the same period (< 300 years) the world's living population has increased from 0.7

to 7.5 billions people, for over 54% concentrated in cities, with a continuous increase

in the degree of desertification of the planet….

"I believe that this nation should

commit itself to achieving the goal,

before this decade is out, of

landing a man on the moon and

returning him safely to the earth.

No single space project in this

period will be more impressive to

mankind, or more important for

the long-range exploration of

space."

-President JF Kennedy, address to

Congress on Urgent National Needs,

May 25th, 1961

Missions: a problem-solving approach to fuel innovation-led

growth, by Mariana MAZZUCATO

Missions: a problem-solving approach to fuel innovation-led

growth, by Mariana MAZZUCATO

Converging Industry 4.0 and Bioeconomy

…. for a Carbon Neutral Country by 2050

… one Mission

Biomass flows and cascading principles are part of the circular economy. However, the

concept of bioeconomy and bio-based economy go far beyond the circular economy

concept, including aspects such as product and process innovation,

functionalization and properties of single and different products

Bioeconomy: goes much beyond a Specialist Concept

Petrochemistry essentially developed by the quest to find

applications for abundant substrates.

Today bioeconomy is dedicated to the replacement of current

platform chemicals, developed and used by petrochemistry.

A paradigm shift is required to produce the right chemicals.

This implies looking at chemistry with an open mind: in many

cases the aim is not to substitute existing processes or

molecules, but more radically to re-imagine them and their

possible use

Bioeconomy: Era of paradigm shifts

Sequencing Life for the Future of Life

… creating value from Biodiversity

Leverage BIODIVERSITY. The Earth BioGenome Project, a Moon Shot for biology, aims to

sequence, catalog and characterize the genomes of all of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity over a

period of ten years.

Leverage SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, an interdisciplinary branch of biology and engineering. The

subject combines various disciplines from within these domains, such as biotechnology, genetic

engineering, molecular biology, molecular engineering, systems biology, biophysics, electrical

engineering, computer engineering, control engineering and evolutionary biology. Synthetic biology

applies these disciplines to build artificial biological systems for research and productions.

… redirecting strategy of survival into Bioprocesses

Leverage DIGITAL. Digital allows companies to have a much more granular

understanding of the value of materials, and to gauge the condition of assets and products—

determining when they’ll need service or replacement, for example. Gaining these capabilities is

quickly becoming “table stakes” to engagein a fuller circular economy supply chain.

… the Future is under way …

Leverage EDUCATION - …. whichever business you’re in, you need to keep adapting, improving

and innovating for proposing Visions and supporting Missions.

… training skilled personal into the various aspects of Biosustainability

BIOCIRCE - Bioeconomy in the Circular Economy

Continuous learning: Master II level … on demand …

www.masterbiocirce.com

innovation and corporate strategypolicy and regulation collaborative R&D modelsgovernance and intellectual propertycommunication and marketing

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Paesi-Raccomandazione per lo sviluppo dell’Area di

Specializzazione -Roadmap con relativi obiettivi, stakeholders, tempi di

realizzazione, risultati attesi ..

Sustainable Processes and Resources for Innovation and National Growth

SPRING

THANKS for your TIME

La Bioeconomia Circolare:

un valore aggiunto a più

livelli

(back to nature)

Outline:Circular Economy

BioeconomyWhy should we invest ?

The 4 Industrial RevolutionsOne Mission

Leverage B. S. D. E.