In contrast to the conventional economic system based on taking, making and disposing of things, he described a non-linear economy running in loops, reusing materials, and with big implications for job creation, competitiveness, resource savings and waste creation.
Another benefit of acquiring such knowledge of crops is that it should enhance regional agricultural competitiveness, optimize resource allocations, and further guarantee national food security.
New ideas are in short supply, but the European soul-searching over welfare, competitiveness and resource efficiency is yielding new approaches.
It reduces weed growth and competitiveness, making resources that are normally taken up by weeds available for crop uptake.
And the lucky few can find that life in academic research is disappointing: slow career progression, low salaries, little competitiveness, few resources, bureaucracy, and the lack of a real meritocracy discourage scientists from pursuing a career in their home country.
A well-developed innovation system for the bioeconomy must enable immature renewable resource-based technologies to progress down the learning curve, to eventually reach competitiveness with fossil resource substitutes; second, innovation efforts need to be steered towards bioeconomy pathways with favourable environmental characteristics; third, innovations need to be socially acceptable.
A market based solution for ecosystem services in wood plantations has the added potential benefit of increasing economies of scale and competitiveness in wood resource availability and associated downstream processing.
Every single one of them should be focused on increasing their competitiveness using whatever resources — however meager — they have.
The listing uses such criteria as students' SAT scores, admissions competitiveness, schools' financial resources, alumni giving rates, graduation rates and student-faculty ratio.
This is vital if the UK is going to gain share in emerging markets and build competitiveness through adopting more resource efficient practices.
Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) are both a decades-long health problem in Thailand as well as a threat to the nation's human resource and competitiveness, Pornthida noted.
