On episode 14 of A Dictionary of Finance podcast, Paulina Brzezicka told us all about equity stories and credit stories. In fact, she did it so well, we brought her back to tell us about the bioeconomy and circular economy on our latest episode. Both are buzz words in commerce just now, so we wanted to make certain we knew what they were really all about. Paulina, who’s an advisor in the Innovation Finance Advisory Division at the European Investment Bank, says that most consumers will have used products that are made with some involvement of the bioeconomy. But they might not know it and they probably wouldn’t recognise the names of bioeconomy companies. That’s because bioeconomy processes tend to be early in the manufacturing chain, long before a product actually gets to the shelves. And check out her composed response to Allar’s cheeky question about whether oil should thus be considered biomass!