Publikationen / Publications
Innovations in Waste-Management to Minimise Carbon Emissions
Manfred Kircher
submitted to: Carbon Capture and Utilisation (ed. M.R. Rahimpour) Wiley-VCH (April 2026)
Towards a defossilized Chemical Industry – Trends in Europe
Rolf D. Schmid, Lars Börger, Michael Carus, Manfred Kircher
Green Carbon (accepted in January 2026)
Recycling Bio-Waste and Residuals into Chemical Products
Thomas Bayer, Alexander May, Manfred Kircher
In: Bio-Waste to Value-added Products - Economics and Technologies. Thomas Bayer, Manfred Kircher (eds.). Springer Nature Switzerland 2025. ISBN 978-3-031-91208-5
EU Bioenergy - Status and Potential
Manfred Kircher
Energies 2025, 18, 4857; https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/18/4857
Chemical Production based on Biomass - Potential and Limits
Manfred Kircher
Biomass 2025, 5(1), 8; https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8783/5/1/8
Bilanzierung der Treibhausgasemissionen von Kommunen
DIN SPEC 91627 (11/2024)
Manfred Kircher et al.
https://www.dinmedia.de/de/technische-regel/din-spec-91627/384163671
Bioabfälle und Reststoffe - Rohstoffe mit Zukunft
Thomas Bayer, Manfred Kircher, Bernd Rentmeister
Müll und Abfall (03/2024)
https://www.esv-campus.de/ce/muell-und-abfall-ausgabe-03-2024/ejournal-archiv.html
Bioökonomie im Ballungsraum
Manfred Kircher
in: Nachhaltige Produktion - Impulse für FrankfurtRheinMain
IHK Frankfurt, Regionalverband FrankfurtRheinMain, Wirtschaftsinitiative FrankfurtRhein/Main (2023)
https://www.frankfurt-main.ihk.de/blueprint/servlet/resource/blob/5870346/b7bdb301a6036659a2ce1be65d71eee7/wir-nachhaltige-produktion-data.pdf
Deutsche Normungsroadmap Circular Economy
Herausgeber DIN, DKE, VDI (2023)
https://www.din.de/resource/blob/892606/06b0b608640aaddd63e5dae105ca77d8/normungsroadmap-circular-economy-data.pdf
Zirkuläre Bioökonomie - Für eine nachhaltige Wirtschaft
Manfred Kircher
Springer essentials (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41556-3
Treatment and valorization of bio-waste in the EU
Manfred Kircher, Elisabet Aranda, Panayiotopoulos Athanasios, Ivana Radojcic-Rednovnikov, Martin Romantschuk, Morten Ryberg, Gabi Schock, Stefan Shilev, Michaela Dina Stanescu, Jonita Stankeviciute, Joanna Surmacz-Górska, Argyro Tsipa, Marlen Vasquez, Marianna Villano, Constantinos E. Vorgias,
EFB Bioeconomy Journal, 2023, 100051,
ISSN 2667-0410, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioeco.2023.100051
The bioeconomy of waste biorefineries
Manfred Kircher, Thomas Bayer et al.
In: Handbook of Waste Biorefinery: Circular Economy of Renewable Energy, Chapter 44 (eds. Maryany Costa Deprá, Eduardo Jacob-Lopez, Leila Queiroz Zepka) Springer (2022)
ISBN: 978-3-031-06562-0
KBBE: The Knowledge-based Bioeconomy: Concept, Status and Future Prospects
Manfred Kircher, Karl-Heinz Maurer, Dennis Herzberg
EFB Bioeconomy Journal, 2022, 100034,
ISSN 2667-0410,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioeco.2022.100034.
Bioeconomy of microrganisms
Manfred Kircher
in: The bioeconomy system (eds.. D.Thrän, U. Moesenfechtel)
Springer, 2022.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-64415-7_6
The bioeconomy needs economic, ecological and social sustainability
Manfred Kircher
[J]. AIMS Environmental Science, 2022, 9(1): 33-50. doi:10.3934/environsci.2022003.
Economic Trends in the Transition into a Circular Bioeconomy
Manfred Kircher
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2022, 15, 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm15020044
Making Money with Industrial Biotechnology
Manfred Kircher
Industrial Biotechnology 17(5) published online 15.10.2021 https://doi.org/10.1089/ind.2021.29264.mki
Options for CO2 -neutral production of bulk chemicals
Adam Franz, Manfred Kircher
Journal of Business Chemistry 2021; 18(2) 63-78
DOI: 10.17879/27069427558
The Framework Conditions must be aligned to the Requirements of the Bioeconomy
Manfred Kircher
Bioeconomy Journal (11/2021(1) 10003)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioeco.2021.100003
Reducing the Emissions Scope 1-3 in the Chemical Industry
Manfred Kircher
Journal of Business Chemistry (02/2021)18:2-8
DOI: 10.17879/88069570495
Bioeconomy – Present Status and Future Needs of Industrial Value Chains
Manfred Kircher
New Biotechnology (2021) 60:96-104
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2020.09.005
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Challenges and Opportunities
Kircher, Manfred
In: Rodrigues A. (ed) New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Elsevier (2020) ISBN 978-3-662-61004-6
https://www.elsevier.com/books/new-and-future-developments-in-microbial-biotechnology-and-bioengineering/rodrigues/978-0-444-64301-8
Bioeconomy: Markets, Implications, and Investment Opportunities
Manfred Kircher
Economies 2019, 7, 73
doi:10.3390/economies7030073
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/7/3/73
Since 16.1.2019 Free Online Course
Biobased Products for a Sustainable (Bio)economy
https://www.edx.org/course/bio-based-products-for-a-sustainable-bioeconomy
https://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/biobased-products-sustainable-bioeconomy/subjects/module-3-biobased-products-bioenergy/
Implementing the Bioeconomy in a Densely Populated and Industrialized Country
Manfred Kircher
Advances in Industrial Biotechnology (2018) 1:003
http://www.heraldopenaccess.us/fulltext/Advances-in-Industrial-Biotechnology/Implementing-the-Bioeconomy-in-a-Densily-Populated-and%20Industrialized-Country.php
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Rohstoffwandel braucht Rohstoffeffizienz
Manfred Kircher, Thomas Bayer
CheManager, Mai 2018
https://www.chemanager-online.com/themen/chemikalien-distribution/rohstoffwandel-braucht-rohstoffeffizienz
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Fundamental biochemical and biotechnological principles of biomass growth and use
Manfred Kircher
in: Introduction to renewable biomaterials (eds. A.S.Ayoub, L.A. Lucia)
Wiley (2018) ISBN 978-1-119-96229-8
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How to capture the bioeconomy’s industrial and regional potential through professional cluster management
Manfred Kircher, Roland Breves, Andreas Taden, Dennis Herzberg
New Biotechnology; on-line 3-JUN-2017
DOI information: 10.1016/j.nbt.2017.05.007
Bio-Innovation growth mega-Cluster (BIG-Cluster) pushes cross-border collaboration in developing the Bioeconomy
Press Release 27.6.2017
http://www.bigc-initiative.eu/news.php
Bioökonomie: Chancen, Herausforderungen und Konfliktpotentiale
Manfred Kircher
Forum Wirtschaftsethik
http://forum-wirtschaftsethik.de/biooekonomie-chancen-herausforderungen-und-konfliktpotentiale/
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Regional Pillars of Competitiveness in Chemurgy and Green Chemistry
Manfred Kircher
in: Peter C.K. Lau (ed) Quality Living through Chemurgy and Green Chemistry; Spinger (2017) http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783662537022
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An interview with Manfred Kircher
Mario Bonaccorso; 08.02.2017
www.thebiojournal.com/an-interview-with-manfred-kircher-clib2021/
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Die Bedeutung der Biotechnologie für die Bioökonomie
Manfred Kircher, Michael Bott, Jan Marienhagen, Uli Schurr
in: Bioökonomie für Einsteiger (ed. Joachim Pietzsch) Springer (2017)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-53763-3
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Die Bioökonomie als Kreislauf- und Verbundsystem
Stefanie Bröring, Silvan Berg, Manfred Kircher
in: Bioökonomie für Einsteiger (ed. Joachim Pietzsch) Springer (2017)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-53763-3
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Kriterien für den Erfolg der Bioökonomie
Stefanie Bröring, Oliver Butkowski, Chad Baum, Manfred Kircher
in: Bioökonomie für Einsteiger (ed. Joachim Pietzsch) Springer (2017)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-53763-3
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Regional pillars of competitiveness in chemurgy and green chemistry
Manfred Kircher
in: Quality living through chemurgy and green chemistry (ed. Peter C.K. Lau) Springer (2017)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-53704-6
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Will Berlin be the global capital of the bioeconomy; Interview with Manfred Kircher
Mario Bonaccorso; Renewable Matter Jan-Feb 2016; 58-63
http://www.renewablematter.eu/art/174/Will_Berlin_Be_the_Global_Capital_of_the
_Bioeconomy
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How to link modern agriculture and sustainable industrial production
Manfred Kircher, Joachim Werner Zang, Warde Antonietta da Fonseca-Zang, Wilson Mozena Leandro; AgroEnviron 2015; 153-158
ISBN: 978-9-4619734-0-5
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10 Jahre Bioökonomie: Bilanz und Ausblick
Manfred KIrcher; CHEManager 2015, 21:6
http://www.chemanger-online/themen/konjunktur/zehn-jahre-biooekonomie-bilanz-und-ausblick
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G7, Dekarbonisierung und die Bioökonomie
Manfred Kircher; transcript 2015 (21) 3:50-51
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Sustainability of biofuels and renewable chemicals production from biomass
Manfred Kircher; Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 2015, 29:26-31
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136759311500085X
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BIG-C: Europe's Industrial Center Pushes Bioeconomy
Manfred Kircher; Going Public - Life Sciences 01-2015; 54
http://www.goingpublic.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/_EPAPER_/ep-GP_Life_Sciences_1-2015/paper54.html#/54
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Clusters Serve as Technology as well as Market Radar
Manfred Kircher; Renewable Matter, November 2014, 01:49-50
http://www.renewablematter.eu
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The Emerging Bioeconomy: Industrial Drivers, Global Impact, and International Strategies
Manfred Kircher; Industrial Biotechnology, February 2014, 10 (1): 11-18
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/ind.2014.1500
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Biotechnology for the Environment and Sustainability
Manfred Kicher; New Biotechnology; Special section: Biotechnology for the Environment and Sustainability (2014) editorial
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871678414000168
The Transition to a Bio-Economy: Emerging from the Oil Age
Manfred Kircher, Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, July/August 2012, 6(4):369-375
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bbb.1352/abstract
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The Transition to a Bio-Economy: National Perspectives
Manfred Kircher, Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining May/June 2012, 6 (3): 240-245
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bbb.1341/abstract