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Division of Process Development, Analysis and Design

Bioeconomy and Biosystems Economics Laboratory

The future bioeconomy is expected to drive the transition towards a more sustainable economy by addressing some of the major global challenges, including food security, climate change and resource scarcity. The globally increasing demand for food in particular, but also materials and renewable energy, necessitates innovative developments in the primary sectors. Innovations will need to generate more resource-use-efficient technologies and methods for increasing productivity in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture without jeopardizing the Earth’s carrying capacity and biodiversity. The bioeconomy exploits new resources by building on renewable biomass. Through this, the introduction of innovative and resource-use-efficient production technologies and the transition to a sustainable society, it helps to substitute or reduce the use of limited fossil resources, thereby contributing to climate change mitigation.

Research areas

  • Conceptual issues: understanding and monitoring bioeconomy; added value of bioeconomy to economic analysis and policy design.
  • Welfare analysis: evaluate costs and benefits as well as externalities from biomass production, conversion and final product use; estimate impacts on welfare and allocation of losses and benefits from alternative bio-based vale chains; analysis on new value chains.
  • Social and environmental sustainability questions: farm resource use; waste management; land use change; greenhouse gas emissions; bioenergy; biorefineries; life cycle assessment; social implications.
  • Managerial and micro-economic issues: investment appraisal of technology, business models for new bio-based products/processes; logistic supply chains; technology & knowledge transfer and property right questions.
  • Policy analysis: Policy studies are needed throughout due to the high relevance of agricultural policies, the public goods features of the bioeconomy, the innovation component and the fact that many bioeconomy products require in fact the creation of new markets.
  • Analysis of the Transition to Bioeconomy: Study of transition examples through theoretical approaches of multi-level perspective and reflective governance / management of transition dynamics.

Head of the Laboratory

Stelios Rozakis

srozakis@isc.tuc.gr

Professor

School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Lab members

Katerina Troullaki
atroullaki@isc.tuc.gr
PhD candidate, Environmental Engineering, TUC
MSc, Environmental Engineering, TUC
MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA

 

Dissertations

Diploma works

  • Vasilis Kefalas, (ongoing), Computational study of mathematical programming model by means of alternative software (in greek)
  • Dimitrios Kousparis, (2019), Mathematical modeling of biogas system from agricultural residues for CHP: The case of Lubelskie, Poland (in greek)
  • Alvertos Konstantinis, (2018), Bioeconomy and Common Agricultural Policy: A bibliometric approach by means of Social Network Analysis (in greek)
  • Ioannis Thermos, (2017), Investment Appraisal of P/V in fertile agricultural land in Syros (in greek)

Master dissertations

  • Aikaterini Troullaki, (2018), Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines: Sustainability Assessment integrating Life Cycle Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

 

Research Programmes and Projects

  • Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Distributed Manufacturing, PhD scholarship, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, 2019 - 2022
  • ‘Optimised Pest Integrated Management to precisely detect and control plant diseases in perennial crops and open-field vegetables’ —‘OPTIMA’ H2020 - Coordinator AUA 2018-2021
  • New Strategies on Bioeconomy in Poland, Widening ERA Chair H2020 –2017-2018

 

Selected Publications

Conceptual issues

  • Konstantinis A., E-A Maria, S Rozakis, K Shu (forthcoming) A definition of bioeconomy through the bibliometric networks of the scientific literature, AgBioForum
  • Loizou, E., Jurga, P., Rozakis, S., Faber, A. Assessing the potentials of bioeconomy sectors in Poland employing input-output modeling (2019) Sustainability (Switzerland), 11 (3), art. no. 594

Welfare analysis

  • Shu, K., Kozak, M., Fradj, N.B., Zylowski, T., Rozakis, S., 2020. Simulation of sorghum introduction and its impacts on land use change—A case study on Lubelski region of Eastern Poland. GCB Bioenergy 12, 252–274. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12669

  • Kampas, A., Rozakis, S. On the Scarcity Value of Irrigation Water: Juxtaposing Two Market Estimating Approaches (2017) Water Resources Management, 31 (4), pp. 1257-1269.

  • Escobar, N., Manrique-de-Lara-Peñate, C., Sanjuán, N., Clemente, G., Rozakis, S. An agroindustrial model for the optimization of biodiesel production in Spain to meet the European GHG reduction targets (2017) Energy, 120, pp. 619-631.

Social and environmental sustainability questions

  • Pishgar-Komleh, S.H., Zylowski, T., Rozakis, S., Kozyra, J., 2020. Efficiency under different methods for incorporating undesirable outputs in an LCA+DEA framework: A case study of winter wheat production in Poland. Journal of Environmental Management 260, 110138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110138

  • Troullaki, A., Latoufis, K., Marques, P., Freire, F., Hatziargyriou, N., 2019. Life Cycle Assessment of Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines and Pico-Hydro Plants, in: 2019 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST). Presented at the 2019 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST), IEEE, Porto, Portugal, pp. 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST.2019.8849074

  • Bartoli, A., Hamelin, L., Rozakis, S., Borzęcka, M., Brandão, M. Coupling economic and GHG emission accounting models to evaluate the sustainability of biogas policies (2019) Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 106, pp. 133-148.

  • Król, A., Ksiȩzak, J., Kubińska, E., Rozakis, S. Evaluation of sustainability of maize cultivation in Poland. A prospect theory-PROMETHEE approach (2018) Sustainability (Swiss), 10 (11), 4263.

Managerial and micro-economic issues

  • Rozakis S., and R Borek (forthcoming) Stochastic Budgeting of SRC Willow Plantation On Abandoned Lands, Of Medium-Quality Soil In Poland, AgBioForum
  • Drivas, K., Panagopoulos, A., Rozakis, S. Instigating entrepreneurship to a university in an adverse entrepreneurial landscape (2018) Journal of Technology Transfer, 43 (4), pp. 966-985.
  • Cartalos, O., Rozakis, S., Tsiouki, D. A method to assess and support exploitation projects of university researchers (2018) Journal of Technology Transfer, 43 (4), pp. 986-1006.

Policy analysis

  • Ben Fradj, N., Jayet, P.A., Rozakis, S., Georganta, E., Jędrejek, A., 2020. Contribution of agricultural systems to the bioeconomy in Poland: Integration of willow in the context of a stylised CAP diversification. Land Use Policy 99, 104797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104797

  • Drivas, K., Rozakis, S., Xesfingi, S. The effect of house energy efficiency programs on the extensive and intensive margin of lower-income households’ investment behavior (2019) Energy Policy, pp. 607-615.

  • Kremmydas, D., Athanasiadis, I.N., Rozakis, S. A review of Agent Based Modeling for agricultural policy evaluation (2018) Agricultural Systems, 164, pp. 95-106.

  • Mantziaris, S., Rozakis, S., Karanikolas, P. CAP implementation under memo of understanding bail-out conditionality: Impacts on business-oriented arable farms in Greece (2017) New Medit, 16 (4), pp. 12-23.

Analysis of the Transition to Bioeconomy

  • Ben Fradj, N., Rozakis, S., Borzęcka, M., Matyka, M., 2020. Miscanthus in the European bio-economy: A network analysis. Industrial Crops and Products 148, 112281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2020.112281

  • Kalaitzandonakes Ν., S. Rozakis, D. Viaggi (forthcoming). Editorial: European agriculture and transition to bioeconomy, AgBioForum, the J of Agrobiotechnology Management and Economics

  • Carayannis, E.G., Rozakis, S., Grigoroudis, E. Editorial: Agri-science to agri-business: the technology transfer dimension (2018) Journal of Technology Transfer, 43 (4), pp. 837-843.

  • Panagopoulos A., S. Rozakis, K. Sideri, A.Anagnosti (forthcoming) University Technology Transfer and Agricultural Science Entrepreneurial Education: a View from Inside, J of the Knowledge Economy

 

Infrastucture and Equipment

  • GAMS (commercial software), GREFAM (operational), webSDSS (under development)
  • Kremmydas D., S. Rozakis, K. Tsiboukas (2018) G.RE.FA.M. Greek Representative Farm Model, Reference Manual, ed. 0.3, Agricultural University of Athens

 

Courses

Undergraduate courses

Postgraduate courses

 

Contact

  • Address: Building K3, Technical University of Crete Campus
  • Tel.: 28210 06160
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  • E-mail: srozakis@isc.tuc.gr

 

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