The opportunities of the bioeconomy for sustainable development in Baden-Württemberg are manifold. Raw materials can be recovered through biological processes or the use of organisms. Thus, the consumption of fossil raw materials and chemicals can be reduced or even replaced.

With the state strategy "Sustainable Bioeconomy for Baden-Württemberg", the state government supports the necessary change to a resource-efficient and circular economy based on renewable and biological resources.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is a greenhouse gas, but carbon is also a basic component of many chemicals. By combining innovative technologies, the climate gas can be removed from the atmosphere and made usable as a raw material.

With ”Ab-cycling” raw materials are recovered from waste and wastewater. With the ERDF funding programme Bio-Ab-Cycling, the Ministry of the Environment is promoting pilot and demonstration plants related to bio-up-cycling.

The Advisory Board Sustainable Bioeconomy advices the government of the Federate State of Baden-Württemberg on the implementation and further development of the state strategy “Sustainable Bioeconomy Baden-Württemberg”. In the advisory board, 17 experts from different areas of the bioeconomy contribute their knowledge.

Surface cleaning, and in particular the removal of oils and greases, is an important cross-sectional technology, particularly in the metal and plastic processing industry. It guarantees technically flawless further processing in the coating and surface treatment.

With the national bioeconomy strategy, the federal government sets the guidelines and goals for its future bioeconomy policy. It builds on the "National Research Strategy Bioeconomy 2030" and the "National Policy Strategy Bioeconomy" and henceforth bundles research funding and the political framework for the bioeconomy in Germany.

People, animals and plants cannot live without phosphorus. Baden-Württemberg is almost completely dependent on phosphorus imports from other countries and would like to change this. In 2012, a phosphorus recovery strategy was developed for Baden-Württemberg with the recommendation to use sewage sludge as a secondary source of phosphorus. With the ERDF funding program "Phosphorus Recovery", the Ministry of the Environment supports three plants for phosphorus recovery from sewage sludge.

As a federate state with a strong industrial sector and an economic focus on plant engineering, Baden-Württemberg needs a sustainably secure supply of high-tech raw materials such as metals including rare earths. Innovative biological technologies such as biomining are supposed to help.

In order to bring the sustainable bioeconomy from research into practice, it is important to establish cross-sectoral networks. The initiative "Valorization of Bioresources – Urban (ValBio-Urban)" aims to contribute to this need with a Translations Hub. The aim is to make research results known quickly and effectively and to be able to apply them.

The bioeconomy is becoming increasingly important in the urban and urban-industrial context. The aim of the "urban BioÖkonomieLab" project is to develop a bioeconomy economic area in which the added value lies to a large extent in the supported regions themselves.