Purpose of Review

Climate change poses a threat to European forests and threatens their capacity to deliver ecosystem services. Innovation is often considered critical to increasing resilience in wood-based value chains. However, the knowledge about types of innovation processes and how they enhance resilience, if at all, is largely dispersed. In this conceptual paper, we refer to examples from the forestry, bioeconomy, adaptation, and innovation literature to develop an overview of innovation pathways along the wood value chain. Thereafter, we evaluate the extent to which they enhance or compromise resilience to climate change and how they do so.

Recent Findings

We differentiate between forest and value chain resilience and assume that innovation positively influences both types of resilience via three resilience drivers: diversifying the product portfolio, making operations more efficient, or making the processes more flexible. Our literature review revealed nine innovation pathways along the value chain.

Summary

The pathways rarely connect forest management and the processing industry. Consequently, a mismatch was identified between the innovation pathways and resilience drivers applied to increase diversification at the beginning of the value chain (in forest management) and those applied to increase efficiency towards the end of the value chain (in the processing industry). Considering this mismatch, we stress that it is critical to reconsider the term innovation as a silver bullet and to increase the awareness of resilience drivers and innovation pathways, as well as reconsider ways to combine them optimally. We recommend engaging in open innovation activities to cooperatively draft innovation strategies across the entire wood value chain and intercept pathways by making processes more flexible.

中文翻译：

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增强木质价值链弹性的潜在创新途径回顾

审查目的

气候变化对欧洲森林构成威胁，并威胁其提供生态系统服务的能力。创新通常被认为对于提高木质价值链的弹性至关重要。然而，关于创新过程类型以及它们如何增强弹性（如果有的话）的知识在很大程度上是分散的。在这篇概念性论文中，我们参考了林业、生物经济、适应和创新文献中的示例，以概述木材价值链上的创新路径。此后，我们评估它们在多大程度上增强或削弱了对气候变化的抵御能力以及它们是如何做到这一点的。

最近的发现

我们区分森林恢复力和价值链恢复力，并假设创新通过三个恢复力驱动因素对两种类型的恢复力产生积极影响：产品组合多样化、提高运营效率或使流程更加灵活。我们的文献综述揭示了价值链上的九个创新路径。

概括

这些路径很少连接森林管理和加工业。因此，用于增加价值链起点（森林管理）多样化的创新路径和弹性驱动因素与用于提高价值链末端（加工业）效率的创新路径和弹性驱动因素之间存在不匹配。考虑到这种不匹配，我们强调，至关重要的是重新考虑创新一词作为灵丹妙药，提高对弹性驱动因素和创新路径的认识，并重新考虑将它们最佳结合的方法。我们建议开展开放式创新活动，合作起草整个木材价值链的创新战略，并通过使流程更加灵活来拦截路径。