7 Meat processing and animal
by- products
Industrial dynamics and institutional
settings
Anne Nygaard Tanner and Nhat Strøm-Andersen
7.1 Introduction
In this chapter, we examine the key mechanisms that drive the evolution of
the meat and animal by- product (ABP) sector towards a circular bio- based
economy. A circular bioeconomy cuts across sectors and industries and
includes the production of renewable biological resources as well as the utilisation of side- streams and residues for high- value products in food, feed, biobased materials, chemicals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and energy. Many of
the sectors that are relevant for a circular bioeconomy are primary sectors,
such as ‘agriculture’ and ‘food, beverage and tobacco’, including meat
processing and animal by- product industries. In the European Union the
‘agriculture’ and ‘food, beverage and tobacco’ sectors combined are currently
leading the bioeconomy in terms of turnover (estimated at 75%) and employment (80%) (Ronzon, Santini & M’Barek, 2015).
Although new technologies are a prerequisite for a bioeconomy, technological development alone is not sufficient (Pyka & Prettner, 2018). Transforming industrial sectors is a co- evolutionary process of systemic changes of
interrelated elements that, besides knowledge and technology, include actors,
networks and institutions (Malerba, 2002, 2005a, 2005b). It is also a highly
spatially dependent process, shaped by place- specific factors such as geography
and industrial structure (Coenen, Benneworth & Truffer, 2012; Hansen &
Coenen, 2014). In this chapter, we focus on the dynamics of the meat
processing and ABP sector and the patterns and strategies of value creation
that characterise companies in this industry.
The analysis reveals a sector which is highly shaped by its regulative
environment, in the sense that regulations decide input and output and define
the room actors can manoeuvre within in their search for value creation.
Similarly, we find that place- specific factors influence the range of opportunities available for actors in each of the nationally embedded sectoral innovation systems.
The chapter is structured as follows. The following section briefly introduces the theoretical approach the chapter draws upon. Section 7.3 introduces
the empirical section with a short description of the inherent and diverse
by- products
Industrial dynamics and institutional
settings
Anne Nygaard Tanner and Nhat Strøm-Andersen
7.1 Introduction
In this chapter, we examine the key mechanisms that drive the evolution of
the meat and animal by- product (ABP) sector towards a circular bio- based
economy. A circular bioeconomy cuts across sectors and industries and
includes the production of renewable biological resources as well as the utilisation of side- streams and residues for high- value products in food, feed, biobased materials, chemicals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and energy. Many of
the sectors that are relevant for a circular bioeconomy are primary sectors,
such as ‘agriculture’ and ‘food, beverage and tobacco’, including meat
processing and animal by- product industries. In the European Union the
‘agriculture’ and ‘food, beverage and tobacco’ sectors combined are currently
leading the bioeconomy in terms of turnover (estimated at 75%) and employment (80%) (Ronzon, Santini & M’Barek, 2015).
Although new technologies are a prerequisite for a bioeconomy, technological development alone is not sufficient (Pyka & Prettner, 2018). Transforming industrial sectors is a co- evolutionary process of systemic changes of
interrelated elements that, besides knowledge and technology, include actors,
networks and institutions (Malerba, 2002, 2005a, 2005b). It is also a highly
spatially dependent process, shaped by place- specific factors such as geography
and industrial structure (Coenen, Benneworth & Truffer, 2012; Hansen &
Coenen, 2014). In this chapter, we focus on the dynamics of the meat
processing and ABP sector and the patterns and strategies of value creation
that characterise companies in this industry.
The analysis reveals a sector which is highly shaped by its regulative
environment, in the sense that regulations decide input and output and define
the room actors can manoeuvre within in their search for value creation.
Similarly, we find that place- specific factors influence the range of opportunities available for actors in each of the nationally embedded sectoral innovation systems.
The chapter is structured as follows. The following section briefly introduces the theoretical approach the chapter draws upon. Section 7.3 introduces
the empirical section with a short description of the inherent and diverse