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Article history: This paper aims at measuring the importance of the bioeconomy within the economy as a whole in
Received 5 June 2015 Germany. It is based upon the definition of the bioeconomy by the German Bioeconomy Council accord-
Received in revised form 10 March 2016 ing to which the bioeconomy “encompasses all those sectors and their related services which produce,
Accepted 16 March 2016
process or use biological resources in whatever form.” Various official statistics were exploited for the
Available online 5 May 2016
determination of the different industries and their share of the bioeconomy. Our analysis covers the devel-
opments from 2002 to 2010. The indicators used were employment and gross value added. Altogether,
Keywords:
about five million employees, representing 10% of all employees and 140 billion Euros, representing 6%
Bioeconomy
National account of gross national product have been identified as the share of bioeconomy in Germany in 2010. This
Biological resources indicates a strong increase compared to the year 2002. Challenges that still need to be overcome are that
Biomass neither the available data nor the economic activities themselves can be unambiguously assigned to the
Bioenergy bioeconomy or the non-bioeconomy.
Material use © 2016 Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights
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food and feed strongly dominates the share of the bioeconomic resources in their production processes. Hence, the definition we
gross value added in the EU-25 as well as in Germany [5]. Finally, apply is narrower than the one of the cluster concept following
Hensche et al. [8] explicitly evaluate the importance of the agribusi- Rehfeld [9].
ness including agriculture in the German economy. The authors The usage of biological resources builds the heart of the defi-
show that this “cluster” accounts for approximately 12% of the labor nition of bioeconomy. Thus, calculation should be input oriented:
force and 6.6% of gross value added in 2008 (Hensche et al. [8], The share of biological resources of an industry that goes into the
p. 167). Following the cluster concept [9] the whole value chain production process is the relevant figure to determine the bioe-
has to be considered while analyzing the economic relevance of conomic proportion of that industry. Furthermore, we assume for
an economic cluster such as agriculture, horticulture or the bioe- reasons of simplicity linearity between share of inputs and share of
conomy. Hence the cluster concept extends the definition of the value added as well as share of employment.
Bioökonomierat [4] by including all upstream industries such as the Another argument which led us to our approach described
agro-chemical industry, the packaging industry or the agricultural above was the objective to ensure appropriate acceptance by deci-
mechanical engineering industry. The cluster concept was applied sion makers within the political system. Our experience shows
while quantifying the economic relevance of the agricultural [8] that transparency and easy comprehensibility are fruitful prereq-
and horticultural [10] sectors in Germany, respectively. In a sim- uisites. Furthermore decision makers and politicians desire the
ilar way Rönnlund et al. (pp. 13) [11], calculated the share of the opportunity to actualize results and to compare results with other
bioeconomy in terms of turnover and employment across the five countries. All these aspects are equally important in science, but
Scandinavian countries. Differences between these countries are they also have consequences for the approach. Data should not
apparent. In sum, in terms of turnover, around 10% of the economy be specific and unique in time and space which often is the case
is related to bioeconomy in the Scandinavian countries. when data is based on questionnaires. Thus, official data with a
The presented numbers suggest that, on the one hand, results reliable, standardized and repeatable data collection system and,
depend heavily on which, and to what extent, sectors of the econ- in the best case, internationally harmonized data bases should be
omy are included into the analysis. In other words, results depend the first choice for the measurement of the bioeconomy.
on the definition of the term bioeconomy and how this is trans- To quantify the primary sector (agriculture, horticulture,
ferred in specific calculation rules. On the other hand, it becomes forestry and fisheries) data from the European System of National
clear that such calculations demand high data requirements. and Regional Accounts were used. The European System of National
The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the data and Regional Accounts is an internationally compatible EU account-
sources and the measurement concept used in order to reveal the ing framework for a systematic and detailed description of an
importance of the bioeconomy within the German economy as a economy. The harmonized and reliable statistics permit compar-
whole. Section 3 illustrates, on the basis of selected sectors, how the isons between EU-member countries [12]. The primary sector has
concept is applied. In Section 4 results are presented and evaluated. been considered to belong completely to the bioeconomy. The rea-
Section 5 provides a discussion of the merits and limitations of the son is that its main characteristic is the production of biological
underlying approach and concludes the paper. resources thus, producing the bioeconomic inputs for downstream
industries [13]. Moreover, there are serious difficulties to value
and also separate non biobased and biobased activities in primary
2. Measurement concept and data production (e.g. tourism). Hence, calculation of the primary sector
builds an exception from the rule to count activities depending on
In order to identify the economic relevance of an industry or a their use of biological resources as inputs.
cluster, different indicators can be used. In this analysis the gross Pertaining to the other industries, the European System of
value added at factor cost and the number of employees are chosen. Accounts [14,15] was chosen as a basis to define and quantify the
The gross value added identifies the economic value of combining bioeconomy. The European System of National Accounts was devel-
the different production factors within an industry. Furthermore, oped in the light of the needs of the European Union in view of
it allows the additive linking of individual industry results. Thus, the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA), with the
it is the mostly used indicator for the quantification of economic main objective to provide a systematic, comparable and quantita-
activity and potential. The second indicator, employment, depicts tive assessment of the various economic activities within a country.
a fundamental sociopolitical dimension and is highly important for To structure and systematize the results of the national
each economy. accounts, numerous classifications are used which are harmonized
While analyzing the economic relevance of the bioeconomy, the internationally, for example, the classifications of the economic
question arises what kind of economic activities have to be taken sectors according to NACE (Nomenclature statistique des activités
into account as parts of the bioeconomy. The suitability of different économiques dans la Communauté européenne) [16]. The alloca-
approaches for defining the system boundaries while quantifying tion of the economic units to the particular categories takes place
the bioeconomy shows that the definition of the system bound- according to the gross value added at basic prices. It is the basis
aries has a strong normative element. Their definition influences for establishing statistics about production value, the production
the results of such an analysis tremendously. In this paper, we factors of the production process (labor, maintenance resource and
apply the definition of the German Bioökonomierat (p. 10) [5] materials, energy etc.), capital accumulation and financial trans-
since this definition is the result of an intense scientific excursus fers of these units. The official statistical classification of economic
with a strong influence on the German Government. According to activities in Germany [17] is based on NACE, Revision 1.1 [18].
the Bioökonomierat the bioeconomy is defined as “all economic In particular, we use the turnover tax statistics, various cost
activities, including services, which produce, process, work on or structure statistics and the survey about material and goods statis-
utilize by any means biological resources”. Hence, this definition tic. Turnover tax statistics come from the tax offices [19]. The
focuses on the production and utilization of biological resources statistics cover almost all private companies because they are
and goes far beyond the consideration of only the primary sec- considered if their turnover reaches at least 17,500 D per year.
tors as all downstream industries that use biological resources are Especially in industries with a high share of small enterprises, like
accounted for. In contrast, most of the upstream industries will not all kinds of handicraft businesses, these statistics give additional
be considered as a part of the bioeconomy because industries like information about ‘real world’ numbers of enterprises as well as
the agro-chemical and machinery industry do not use biological turnover.
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The cost structure statistics from the German Federal Statisti- whether the retail and restaurant and catering industry should be
cal Office deal with the main parameters of company accounting incorporated into the bioeconomy [6]. The reason is their apparent
like turnover, employment, net and gross value added, etc. Cost loose connection to biological resource production and treatment.
structure statistics are available mostly on a yearly basis from On the other hand, all these industries only exist due to the fact that
manufacturing, wholesale, retail, different services industries and they process (picking and packing, preparing, offering) biological
further special industries [20–28]. Companies with 20 or more resources. It is a service that is directly connected with biological
employees are taken into account. As a consequence, in some indus- resources and thus, is covered by the definition. Accordingly, these
tries a significant number of companies are not considered. Data activities are included in bioeconomy. The discussion shows that
collection is done by stratified random sampling based on the sta- not only definition matters but also a common understanding is
tistical business register of the German Federal Statistical Office necessary why industries are connected or not with the bioecon-
which serves as the population. Results are extrapolated to the omy in order to get comparable results.
whole industry.
On the basis of the survey about Material and Goods received
(MGr) by companies [28], the German Federal Statistical Office col-
lects data every four years. These are the sole official statistics about 4. Results
the input-structure (value and percentage-share) of the different
industries. The input-structure is based on the classification of MGr The calculations lead to some general statements: (i) the use of
in the industry that contains 584 categories of goods. biological resources plays an important role within the economy,
(ii) “food and wood” are the dominant product groups of biolog-
ical resources usage, (iii) new value chains which use biological
3. Application of the concept resources in new ways are not yet well-established and do not
tie up significant labor and value added yet and (iv) in a modern
As mentioned before, the primary sector, i.e. agriculture, horti- industrialized economy like Germany primary production within
culture, forestry and fishery, is entirely taken into account. Due to the bioeconomy ties up low shares of labor and gross value added.
the fact that bioenergy is a relatively new area of economic activity Counting all activities from primary production via manufactur-
there is no well-established foundation in official statistics. Thus, ing to trade and services and consumption, the bioeconomy stood
we had to take a special approach: The quantification of the share of for around 10% of the entire workforce of the German economy and
bioenergy in the bioeconomy is based on publications of the Federal 6% of gross value added in 2010 (see Fig. 1).
Ministry of Economics and Technology [29]. The monetary weight Between the years 2002 and 2010, employment in the bioecon-
of power generation from biological resources was calculated on omy grew by 30% while employment in the total economy grew
the basis of two different prices. The quantity of electricity, which by 4%. Gross value added of the bioeconomy rose by 22% between
has no eligibility for remuneration under the Renewable Energy the years 2002 and 2010 while gross value added of the total econ-
Sources Act [30], was valued at market price, while the quantity omy increased by 16%. Thus, the development of the bioeconomy
of electricity that has eligibility for remuneration, was valued with has been somewhat more dynamic in this period. In particular,
the state guaranteed price. The monetary weight for the heat gen- wholesale and retail industries within the bioeconomy as well as
erated from biomass is also rated with the market price. Thus, an restaurants, canteens and caterer industries increased in impor-
overall production value for the energy from biomass of almost 16 tance in this period. With regard to labor and gross value added,
billion euros was calculated for the year 2010. The cost of producing the industries mentioned increased above-average in the bioecon-
energy from biological resources unfortunately could not be taken omy and compared to primary production and manufacturing in
from the statistics. Here, it was assumed that the value added is particular. The same is true if the bioeconomy is compared with the
40% of the production value, comparable with the electricity sector. whole German economy. Part-time work increased within the ser-
With a value added of around EUR 6.3 billion in 2010, the bioenergy vices sector [39]. That may to some extent explain the pronounced
sector makes up approximately 5% of the total gross value added. increase of employment in the bioeconomy because these indus-
All other industries of the downstream manufacturing sector tries cover nearly 2/3 of employment therein (see Fig. 4). Another
have been checked with the MGr-statistics as to whether they use point that may explain to some extent the above average increase
biological resources as inputs. If so, the share of these inputs has of the bioeconomy compared to the whole economy is the highly
been used to calculate gross value added and employment related supported bioenergy industry. With a value added of around 6,3
to bioeconomy (see Table 1, examples A, B, C). billion Euro in 2010, the bioenergy sector makes up approximately
Where data from cost structure statistics is missing, we use 5% of the total gross value added of the bioeconomy. In 2002 it has
turnover tax statistics to identify the turnover of the relevant indus- resulted in 1,6 billion Euro or 1% of the bioeconomy.
try. In a second step we use input-output accounts to determine the In addition, there is also an effect due to changes in statistics
gross value added coefficient of the industry in order to calculate that is responsible for these different developments. In this analy-
gross value added of the industry (see Table 1, example F). sis official statistics were used in order to prevent changes in the
For the three important industries: grocery retail, drugstores data base and to ensure comparability across years. However, even
and homeworker markets we use estimates from different market the use of official data cannot protect against breaks in data series.
research companies to get an idea about the share of turnover of In Fig. 2, both the trade and service sector depict a surprisingly
these industries related to biological resources [31–38] (see Table 1, heavy increase from 2006 to 2010 while the manufacturing sec-
example D). tor shrank a bit. The reason for this is that results for 2010 are
In the similarly important case of restaurants we do not find reli- based on the NACE Rev. 2 [16] from 2008, whereas the other two
able information about the share of turnover related to biological years are related to NACE Rev. 1.1 from 2003 [18]. Comparing NACE
resources. Thus, this industry is considered entirely (see Table 1, from 2003 and 2008, shows shifts from the manufacturing sector
example E). to the trade and service sectors. For example, the industry “retail;
These examples illustrate that there is a trade-off between the mainly food” (industry-code 2003 = 52.11 and 2008 = 47.11) grew
rather good data base in primary production and manufactur- from 2006 to 2010 by 30%. This increase is obviously based on the
ing and the calculations in the trade and services sectors which new classification of companies, but unfortunately detailed infor-
are based more on estimates. Furthermore, there is a discussion mation on these changes could not be obtained. In sum, differences
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Table 1
Examples of the calculation of the importance of the bioeconomy. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this table legend, the reader is referred to the web version
of this article.)
Fig. 1. Ratio of gross value added (left) and employment (right) of the bioeconomy to the total economy in Germany. Source: own calculations based on REfs. [16–28].
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Table 2
Production, imports, and exports of fruits and vegetables in Germany in 2008.
WZ 2008 Name of Economic Sector Share of Production from Germany Persons Employed Returns Gross Value Added Production Value
% Number Million Euro Million Euro Million Euro
Fig. 4. Gross value added and employment within the different industries of the bioeconomy in Germany; 2010. Source: own calculations based on Refs. [16–28].
Fig. 5. Importance of the different biological resources used as inputs in the manufacturing sector in Germany; 2010.
Source: own calculations based on Refs. [16–28].
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