Bio-Strategy 2020.

This Bio-Strategy 2020 (basic measures), as a comprehensive policy package, aims at achieving the world’s state-of-the-art bioeconomy society by 2030. Bioeconomy is defined as a concept of expanding sustainable, renewable and circular economy and society by utilizing biotechnology and biological resources. The Strategy shall be reviewed every year to cope with changes.
The Strategy has three featuring points to realise the most advanced bioeconomy society by 2030: 1. Promote market segment measures in the fields of bio-manufacturing, primary production and health care; 2. Create outstanding bio-communities and attract human resources and investment and enable new products and services; 3. Draw up guidelines for data linkage and usage and establish R&D and market introduction platform.
The main points of the Bio-Strategy 2020 (basic measures) include: (1) Promotion of research and development, etc. pertaining to countermeasures against COVID-19; (2) Promotion of data linkage to achieve market acquisition through formulation of the Guidelines for Linkage and Utilisation of Bio-Data; (3) Formation of global bio-communities and local bio-communities by: a. designation of global bio-communities and local bio-communities, promotion of partnerships, promotion of market areas, and dissemination of information at home and abroad, b. substantiation of bio-production and development of human resource development functions in the global bio-community; (4) Promotion of basic measures for market areas that warrant actions without delay in line with Bio-Strategy 2019 through development of a data infrastructure, formation of bio-communities, establishment of systems, etc. ; (5) Enhancement of the command function to promote the bio-strategy by setting KPIs for evaluation of the overall objectives, performong evaluation at an advisory council from quantitative and qualitative perspectives, and promoting the strategy on the basis of the formulation of a market area roadmap, designation of bio-communities, and the formulation of guidelines, and link measures of each ministry.