Author:
Blümel Linda,Siegfried Konrad,Riedel Fabian,Thrän Daniela
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Innovations and new supply chain concepts are crucial for establishing a sustainable and circular bio-economy that reduces carbon emissions and lowers negative environmental impacts. PESTEL-based concept development provides information about positive, negative and neutral external factors of the macro-environment and their influence on supply chains. The primary data were collected at a stakeholder workshop and gaps in understanding the critical details were closed through expert interviews. The information gathered was organised using a data management software and coded by following a deductively formed system based on predefined PESTEL categories (political, economic, social, technological, ecological, legal). Stakeholders that used the method on intermediate carbon carriers (ICC) grappled with identifying the obstacles that hinder the market uptake of innovations. The workshop revealed a substantial demand for additional information. Infrastructural aspects were considered key to adequately understanding all of the segments along a supply chain. Using PESTEL alone, without taking infrastructural aspects into consideration, meant that the macro-environment that surrounds and affects the ICC supply chain remained a black box. This paper developed docking-related approaches to the basic PESTEL method in order to improve its output for the development of strategic concepts and to improve the market uptake of bio-economy-centred innovations.
Results
The expanded PESTEL method (hereinafter PESTEL + I) significantly shifted the emphasis of strategic decisions to the marketing of individual innovations compared to the basic method. Docking information gathering onto infrastructure (+ I) should be considered in order to expand existing strategy development concepts for bio-economy value chains. Testing the market uptake of innovations was beyond the scope of this study.
Conclusions
PESTEL + I not only increased the utility, but also the complexity and the time needed to analyse an entire supply chain. The expanded method, however, provides stakeholders and strategy developers with a more useful tool to support and optimise market uptake strategies in the bio-economy. Beyond this, there is a knowledge gap with regard to reducing the effort needed to collect data and evaluate such studies. Hence, follow-up research needs to find ways to digitalise major steps in the overall process to make it more efficient.
Funder
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gGmbH (DBFZ)
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Development,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Reference53 articles.
1. European Commission (2022) Paris Agreement. https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/international-action-climate-change/climate-negotiations/paris-agreement_en. Accessed 23 Jun 2022
2. European Commission (2022) 2030 Climate and energy framework. https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/climate-strategies-targets/2030-climate-energy-framework_en. Accessed 23 Jun 2022
3. Commission E (2018) A sustainable bioeconomy for Europe: strengthening the connection between economy, society and the environment: updated bioeconomy strategy. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
4. Achinas S, Horjus J, Achinas V, Euverink GJW (2019) A PESTLE analysis of biofuels energy in-dustry in Europe. Sustainability 11(21):5981
5. Thrän D, Billig E, Brosowski A, Klemm M, Seitz SB, Witt J (2018) Bioenergy carriers—from smoothly treated biomass towards solid and gaseous biofuels. Chem Ing Tec 90(1–2):68–84
Cited by
2 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献