What economic tools should be used to analyze bioeconomic innovations in the forestry and wood industries at the territorial level?

Summary This article analyzes the concept of bioeconomy and describes the nature of the economic tools used to explore it. It is an extension of a study initiated by the Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière. It follows from this work that the bioeconomy can be interpreted through two main axes: a first "disciplinary" vision (bioeconomics) and a second, more "technical-industrial" vision (bioeconomy). The disciplinary vision of bioeconomics can itself be opened up to two approaches: the Georgescu-Roegen current, which aims to profoundly modify the conception of economics (economic analysis as an open cycle integrated into a closed biological cycle) and the current aiming to integrate the disciplines of economics and biology, which is not necessarily incompatible with the principles of neoclassical economic analysis. The more "technical-industrial" and political vision, on the other hand, is mainly interested in the creation of wealth (or even growth) from the renewable resource biomass.