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Various innovative technologies geared towards reducing the environmental footprint of products and processes are currently being developed and applied in the forest-based industry. This study presents some innovative wood-based products that are about to enter the market or that are already being commercialized but have the potential to expand in market size.\n                \n                    Methods: We collected data from interviews and a survey with organisations working with product development and manufacturing, and from the literature.\n                \n                    Results: Many innovative products that are already produced at an industrial scale, such as cross-laminated timber, wood-based composites, and lyocell, can still increase their market share in the coming years. Some of the up-and-coming products with high potential to substitute fossil-based materials and will likely enter the market in the near future are wood foam, lignin-based adhesives, glycols, bioplastics, and textile fibres. Our study indicates that, although biomass demand is expected to increase, stakeholders do not consider future supply a limiting factor.\n                \n                    Conclusions: The ease of market introduction of innovative products relies heavily on the products\u2019 ability to take advantage of existing value chains. Overall, many of the reviewed products have the advantage of being \u2018drop-in\u2019. This is because products that require adjustments to production lines are less likely to get into the market without strong external drivers that push for bio-based alternatives. 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