The transition toward a sustainable and circular bioeconomy is reshaping economic systems, production structures, and policy landscapes across the globe. It encompasses technological, institutional, ecological, and social innovations that aim to reduce dependence on fossil resources, enhance resource efficiency, and promote new bio-based products, processes, and value chains. While the bioeconomy promises opportunities for climate mitigation, rural development, and green industrialization, it also raises critical questions regarding inclusivity, justice, governance, and unintended consequences.
The Bioeconomy Economics Conference 2026 provides an interdisciplinary platform for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to engage with these questions. Building on the momentum of previous bioeconomy workshops in 2024 and 2025, the conference aims to broaden participation and strengthen dialogue across disciplines, sectors, and world regions. We particularly welcome contributions that engage with the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of the bioeconomy using diverse theoretical and methodological approaches.
The conference invites submissions from environmental, resource, agricultural, ecological, development, behavioral, and policy economics, as well as interdisciplinary work from related fields. We encourage theoretical, empirical, experimental, modelling, and policy-oriented papers that connect the bioeconomy to broader questions of sustainability, resource management and economic development.
Go to the Call for Abstracts.
University of Passau
94032 Passau
Germany
For organisational questions, please contact:
Bioeconomy Economics
Dr. Terese Venus, Christiana Augsburg
