The EU bioeconomy policy is undergoing a rhetorical rescaling towards regenerative, spatially attentive and inclusive development trajectories. Partially understood as a maturation process in response to previous criticism of its weak sustainability credentials, lack of social integration and spatially insensitive trajectories, the chapter provides a contrasting analysis of this shift with the (policy) narratives and spatial imaginaries that delineate the future socio-spatial development trajectories in four novel regenerative sectors. By framing and analysing the sectors’ expressive formulations on development within the translocal assemblage of EU bioeconomy policy, the chapter highlights a problematic ‘disaligned alignment’ with this rhetorical rescaling and points to a continuous marginalisation of locally focused and spatially inclusive capacities in novel, regenerative bioeconomy sector development.