Abstract
Bioeconomy is an emerging path for productive development. It refers to economic activities that use knowledge and natural resources of biological origin to produce goods, services, or energy. Bioeconomy provides wide opportunities for middle income and emerging economies to innovate, diversify and complexify their economies for higher productivity, economic growth, jobs and decent work. It has the potential to lead to a more sustainable and inclusive development path, promoting in particular SDG8 and SDG9.