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Informal STEM education will accelerate the bioeconomy.
Marko Hakovirta,Lucian A. Lucia +1 more
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The bioeconomy demands special approaches for attracting youth to science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines and cultivating the multidisciplinary skills needed for a future workforce.Abstract:
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Safeguarding the Bioeconomy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider strategies for safeguarding and sustaining the economic activity driven by research and innovation in the life sciences and present ideas for horizon scanning mechanisms to identify new technologies, markets, and data sources that have the potential to drive future development of the bioeconomy.
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Biodegradable and Compostable Plastics: A Critical Perspective on the Dawn of their Global Adoption.
Rosaria Ciriminna,Mario Pagliaro +1 more
TL;DR: The global adoption of biodegradable and compostable plastics obtained from biomass‐derived monomers is now close to the inflection point, and China and India will play a pivotal role in this process.
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Preparing for the future: Solar energy and bioeconomy in the United Arab Emirates
TL;DR: In this paper, the consequences identified in this study offering guidelines to foster their practical development span from higher education and international student recruitment, through new entrepreneurship from local and foreign entrepreneurs and investors.
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Bioeconomy perception by future stakeholders: Hearing from European forestry students.
Mauro Masiero,Laura Secco,Davide Pettenella,Riccardo Da Re,Hanna Bernö,Ariane Carreira,Alexander Dobrovolsky,Blanka Giertlieova,Alexandru Giurca,Sara Holmgren,Cecilia Mark-Herbert,Lenka Navrátilová,Helga Pülzl,Lea Ranacher,Alessandra Salvalaggio,Arnaud Sergent,Juuso Sopanen,Cristoph Stelzer,Theresa Stetter,Lauri Valsta,Jozef Výbošťok,Ida Wallin +21 more
TL;DR: Although differences across bachelor and master programs are less pronounced, they shed light on how bioeconomy is addressed by university programs and the level of student satisfaction with this, relevant for potential development routes towards comprehensive bio economy curricula at European forestry universities with a forestry focus.
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Pac-Euglena: A Living Cellular Pac-Man Meets Virtual Ghosts
TL;DR: The implementation of Pac-Euglena, a biotic Pac-Man analog, where players guide live microscopic Euglena cells with light stimuli through a physical microfluidic maze, achieves a mixed biology-digital-human reality, enabling cell interactions with virtual ghosts and collectibles.
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Innovation in education: what works, what doesn’t, and what to do about it?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analytical review of the educational innovation field in the USA and propose ways to increase the scale and rate of innovation-based transformations in the education system.
The Bioeconomy to 2030 : designing a policy agenda
Anthony Arundel,David Sawaya +1 more
TL;DR: The Bioeconomy to 2030: Designing a Policy Agenda as mentioned in this paper explores policy options to support the social, environmental and economic benefits of a bioeconomy, as well as possible developments that could influence emerging business models.
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Formal, nonformal and informal education: A holistic perspective on lifelong learning
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework for understanding the interrelationships among formal, non-formal and informal education is presented, which provides a typology of modes of education across the life span, from childhood to old age.
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The Alternative Workplace: Changing Where and How People Work.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the challenges of managing both the cultural changes and systems improvements required by an alternative workplace initiative and the most common pitfalls in implementing alternative workplace programs, and provided the answers to these questions in their examination of this new frontier of where and how people work.