Press Release: Commission to launch bioeconomy observatory

The European Commission will establish an observatory to map progress and measure the impact of the development of the European Union's bioeconomy, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn announced 14 February 2013.

The observatory will gather data to follow the evolution of markets, to map EU, national and regional bioeconomy policies, research and innovation capacities, and the scale of related public and private investments. The observatory will be coordinated by the Joint Research Centre, the Commission's in-house science service.

• Primary Source

European Commission: SPEECH/13/122: The European bioeconomy – an economy for the 21st Century http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-122_en.htm

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