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Abstract

Abstract

From the past until year 1900, the world economy was driven by natural
economy. Later on until 2014, the petroleum and fossil based economy so called

fossil economy took place.. Nowadays, the world has changed due to the population

growth and climate change problems. Society is transforming from fossil based to

bio-based economy in order to mitigate climate change effect in sustainable
practices. Two key industries food and non-food industries, are the main driver of

bio-based economy. In order to balance these industries and escape the middle-

income trap, studying bioeconomy development status and synthesizing a

recommendation for bioeconomy related research and development for Thailand
become of importance. To achieve, literature review of bioeconomy related

researches (emphasizing on value-added in agriculture) both national and

international has been used as a tool.

Form data base, it can be seen that Malaysian and Korean policy in aspects of
agricultural and industrial management as well as innovation development are the

most adaptive approaches to our country. Moreover, policy should be driven to

whole chain value agricultural management such as producing building block

chemicals in stead of agricultural waste utilization for Thai 6 economic crops
including rice, cassava, para-rubber, sugarcane, corn and oil palm. These building

block chemicals can be further developed for green chemicals, agro-industry and

food industry, bioenergy and bio-chemicals industries. Considering the quantity of

agricultural materials, building block chemical market demand, policy support and
technology readiness level (TRL), the outstanding building block chemicals from both

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1 generation (sugar based) and 2 generation materials (cellulose based) are
glycerol, acetic acid, sorbitol and succinic acid that could be derived from rice,

cassava, sugarcane, corn and oil palm respectively.
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A recommendation in research and development for 1 and 2 generation
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were devided for upstream, midstream and downstream. For 1 generation, research
in upstream (agricultural practives) have been well performed thus improving on

productivity shoud be focusedFor midstream, increasing of building block chemical
production and purification from whole chain agriculture should be emphasized,

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