SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Boehlje, Michael; Akridge, Jay T.; Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas G..

With the dramatic changes occurring in the agricultural industries, it is critical to develop and maintain competencies that will enhance one's competitive position in this rapidly evolving market. The skills or capacities required to be successful are dynamic capabilities which embrace new ideas, change, innovation, analysis, integration, and teamwork-capabilities which may not be part of the experience base in the more traditional agriculture of the past.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Adding value; Capabilities; Change; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Organizational transformation; Agribusiness.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14655

PRODUCT AND BRANDING INNOVATIONS IN THE AUSTRALIAN BEEF MARKETING SYSTEM

Morales, Luis Emilio; Fleming, Euan M.; Wright, Vic; Griffith, Garry R.; Umberger, Wendy J..

Meat Standards Australia (MSA) represents a new beef classification system, derived from consumer preferences, which allows classifying beef in interesting ways to consumers and creates the basis for product differentiation and branding. Currently, branding of beef cuts occurs on a limited scale; however, research has revealed clear segmentation across consumers and premiums for preferred products in niche markets. The objective of this study is to identify the potential for large-scale differentiation and branding in the Australian beef marketing system and how this may best be done given the structure of the supply chain.

Proposta metodologica de transferencia de tecnologia para promover o desenvolvimento.

Palavras-chave: Innovation; Branding; Australian beef marketing system; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/5993

Infoteca-e

GASTAL, M. L.; ZOBY, J. L. F.; PANIAGO JUNIOR, E.; MARZIN, J.; XAVIER, J. H. V.; SOUZA, G. L. C. de; PEREIRA, E. A.; KALMS, J. M.; BONNAL, P..

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Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Transferencia; Metodologia; Desenvolvimento; Agropecuária; Brasil; Brasília; Development; Innovation; Inovação tecnológica; Methods; Planaltina; Transference.; Agricultura; Desenvolvimento Rural; Extensão Rural; Método; Pesquisa; Transferência de Tecnologia.; Tecnologia; Agriculture; Research; Methodology; Rural development; Technology; Technology transfer..

Ano: 1993

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/549462

Prospecção tecnológica: importância, métodos e experiências da Embrapa Cerrados.

Infoteca-e

TEIXEIRA, L. P..

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Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Prospecção tecnológica; Conhecimento tecnológico; Innovation; Technological prospection; Technological management.; Planejamento Estratégico..

Ano: 2013

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/981247

Public Support of the Processing and Marketing of Agricultural Products: A Driver of Innovation in the Food Industry?

Schafer, Martin; Efken, Josef; Wendt, Heinz; Trefflich, Annette; Uetrecht, Inge.

At issue in this paper is the role of innovation within the public support of food-industries under EU rural development policy. It is focused on the questions: Are there fundamental economic characteristics of highly innovative in comparison to less innovative enterprises? And, what are successful strategies to promote innovations by intervention of the state. Baseline information is given through the data ascertainment of investment grant applications and collaboration with local state departments.

Public-private partnerships for innovation-led growth in agrichains: A useful tool for development in Latin America?

Palavras-chave: Innovation; Industrial policy; Investment assistance; Food-industry; State-intervention; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Marketing.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6605

Hartwich, Frank; Gonzalez, Carolina; Vieira, Luis-Fernando.

Public-private partnerships have become increasingly important as an arrangement that serves to encourage innovation in agricultural production chains in Latin America. However, some observers have expressed concern that this institutional arrangement may mostly favor the interests of the private sector without producing sufficient social benefits for the public. This paper presents the results of a study of 124 cases of public-private partnerships in agricultural innovation in nine countries in Latin America. The data from the study suggest that the partnership concept is used to generate agricultural innovations in many different ways, involving public research and private entities to varying degrees and focusing on different types of agricultural...

R&D Appropriability and Planned Obsolescence: Empirical Evidence from Wheat Breeding in the UK (1960-1995)

Palavras-chave: Public-private partnerships; Agricultural research; Innovation; Agrichains; Latin America; Agricultural production; Case studies; Agribusiness; International Development.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59693

Rangnekar, Dwijen.

Plant breeders face a unique appropriation problem - plants are reproducible, genetic information is heritable and seeds can be multiplied. The paper uses indicators of varietal age as a proxy for durability to examine strategies of planned obsolescence. Using wheat breeding in the UK, evidence of strategies of planned obsolescence is confirmed. This is then corroborated with evidence of tendencies towards increased proliferation of varieties on the market and breeding strategies that focus on incremental productivity improvements (i.e. increased efficiency) and narrow and limited disease resistance (i.e. reduced durability).

R&D, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Four Manufacturing Sectors in OECD Countries

Palavras-chave: Planned Obsolescence; R&D appropriability; Innovation; Plant Breeding; Crop Production/Industries; L13; O31; Q10.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24904

Ulku, Hulya.

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the relationship between R&D intensity, rate of innovation and the growth rate of output in four manufacturing sectors from 17 OECD countries. The findings suggest that the knowledge stock is the main determinant of innovation in all four manufacturing sectors and that R&D intensity increases innovation in the chemicals and the electrical and electronics sector. In addition, the rate of innovation has a positive effect on the growth rate of output in all sectors except for the drugs and medical sector. These results lend strong support for the non-scale endogenous growth models. *I am grateful to Adam Jaffe for his invaluable suggestions and comments.

Reflexiones del Metodo de Investigacion, Consultoria e Innovacion en Sistemas de Gestion de Empresas Agropecuarias

Palavras-chave: Non-scale endogenous growth; R&D; Patent; Innovation; Output growth; System GMM; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; O14; O30; O31; O33; O41.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/30542

Ruiz Guzman, Jose Luis; Aguilar Valdes, Alfredo; Gomez Gonzalez, Gerardo; Ruiz Ledezma, Javier.

The evolution of the subject of Research on Technology Transfer and Agroindustrial Development at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlán UNAM (School of Advanced Studies at Cuatitlan UNAM) converges with the generation of agricultural business management systems and with the consultancy service and training, as a University-Company articulation strategy; with the purpose of awakening business people's interests in order to discover productivity and competitiveness helping them to become better, transform or revolution its organization in the fight to get present opportunities in the market and the economic surroundings. Above all, the strengthening of the subject is upheld by the evolution of the research method applied to innovation through the...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Research; Innovation; Consultancy; Method; Company; Agrindustrial.; Agribusiness.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48610

Regional Food Clusters and Government Support for Clustering: Evidence for a ‘Dynamic Food Innovation Cluster’ in Alberta, Canada?

Steiner, Bodo E.; Ali, Jolene.

This paper analyzes government support for networking and regional cluster growth in the food sector. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the first paper to provide a literature review of studies on regional food clusters, focusing on key features that characterize successful regional food clusters. The review compares key characteristics of such clusters with characteristics of clusters from other industrial sectors. The insights from these studies on clustering success and the role of government are contrasted with empirical evidence on government support for clustering in the Canadian food sector, specifically in the province of Alberta. The empirical evidence is based on two small industry surveys, one conducted in March 2005, and the second in August...

Retour sur deux projets de développement en aquaculture outre-mer : leçons pour l’avenir

Palavras-chave: Location-based clustering; Food clusters; Networks; Innovation; Government support; Alberta; Canada; Industrial Organization; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; R11; L32; L38; O32; O38; Q13.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99705

ArchiMer

Lacroix, Denis.

Lessons for the future from two development projects in aquaculture in the French overseas territories. Numerous research and development projects have been launched since the seventies in the French overseas territories. Their aim was to foster new activities in agriculture based on local productions for local markets, notably in the French West Indies (FWI). In this paper we analyze two development projects on the rearing of giant freshwater prawn, one in the FWI and the other in French Guyana, over twenty years after their launching. The purpose of these compared studies is twofold: first to try to understand why a set of relevant technical innovations ended in failure 15 years later; second to identify recommendations in terms of methodology in order...

Tipo: Text

Palavras-chave: Développement durable; Gouvernance; Aquaculture; Innovation; Acceptabilité sociale; Sustainable development; Governance; Aquaculture; Innovation; Social acceptability.

Ano: 2013

URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00187/29784/28242.pdf

Role of innovation in growth of countries

ROLE OF INNOVATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE – INFRASTRUCTURE AND INSTITUTIONS

Tejinder, Sara.

The paper discusses the role of innovative capability in growth of a country by arguing that in the long run, a nation’s higher order competitive advantage can be built only with innovation. The paper also identifies eight determinants of innovation capability of a country. The discussion of these eight determinants should be useful for policy makers in countries attempting to promote economic growth by improving the productivity of the firms in their countries.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Innovation; Economic growth; Productivity of the firms; Innovative firms; Innovation capability of a country.; International Development; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; O10; 021; 031; 038.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94611

ROLE OF INNOVATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE - INFRASTRUCTURE AND INSTITUTIONS

Nabradi, Andras.

There is a well known saying: Research converts money into knowledge, innovation converts knowledge into money. The knowledge-based economy has four pillars: innovation, education, the economic and institutional regime, and information infrastructure. Transformation towards a knowledge-based economy will necessarily shift the proportion and growth of national income derived from knowledge-based industries, the percentage of the workforce employed in knowledge-based jobs and the ratio of firms using technology to innovate. Progress towards a knowledge-based economy will be driven by four elements: human capital development, knowledge generation and exploitation (R&D), knowledge infrastructure. Increased investment in these four areas will certainly have...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Innovation; Knowledge; Infrastructure; Institutions; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91123

Nabradi, Andras.

PAPER FROM PLENARY SESSION

Rural Innovation Systems and Networks: Findings from a Study of Ethiopian Smallholders

Palavras-chave: Innovation; Knowledge; Infrastructure; Institutions; Agribusiness; Labor and Human Capital.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57336

Spielman, David J.; Davis, Kristin E.; Negash, Martha; Ayele, Gezahegn.

Agriculture in Ethiopia is changing. New players, relationships, and policies are influencing how smallholders access and use information and knowledge. Although this growing complexity suggests opportunities for Ethiopian smallholders, too little is known about how these opportunities can be effectively leveraged to promote pro-poor processes of rural innovation. This paper examines Ethiopia’s smallholder agricultural sector to provide qualitative insights into the interactions between smallholders and other actors in the agricultural sector and the contribution those interactions make to the smallholders’ innovation processes. Case studies of smallholder innovation networks in 10 communities suggest that public sector extension and administration exert a...

Sharing Science, Building Bridges, and Enhancing Impact: Public–Private Partnerships in the CGIAR

Palavras-chave: Ethiopia; Agricultural Development; Innovation; Technology; Social Networks; Social Learning; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42332

Spielman, David J.; Hartwich, Frank; von Grebmer, Klaus.

This study, which examines the role of public–private partnerships in international agricultural research, is intended to provide policymakers, research managers, and business decision-makers with an understanding of how such partnerships operate and how they potentially contribute to food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. The study examines public–private partnerships in light of persistent market failure, institutional constraints, and systemic weaknesses, which impede the exchange of potentially pro-poor knowledge and technology. The study focuses on three key issues: whether public–private partnerships contribute to reducing the cost of research, whether they add value to research by facilitating innovation, and whether they...

SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Palavras-chave: Agricultural R&D; CGIAR; Innovation; Public–private partnerships; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42405

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna.

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of many techno organisational innovation and networking strategies, original recent survey data for manufacturing and services are exploited. The aim is to provide new evidence on the complementarity relationships concerning different networking activities and R&D in a local SME oriented system in Northern Italy. We first introduce a methodological framework to empirically test complementarity among R&D and networking, in a discrete setting. Secondly, we consequently present empirical evidence on productivity...

“SOCIAL AGRICULTURE”: A PATTERN BETWEEN FARM INNOVATION, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND MULTIFUNCTIONALITY

Palavras-chave: Firm Competitiveness; Innovation; R&D; Networking; Complementarity; Local Economic System; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; D21; L25; O3; O14; Z13.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9554

Macri, Maria Carmela; Perito, Maria Angela.

Rural context and agricultural process are assuming growing credibility as a mean to promote well being and social inclusion in the population as a whole. Fattoria solidale del Circeo” constitutes one of the many examples of social agriculture that have risen in the recent years in Italy. Differently from the general case, it is a large farm which is moving from a conventional an intensive farming system to another model, without abandoning its entrepreneurial nature. Even if it is not easy to assign a theoretic paradigm, it could be useful both in order to understand it and to give correct instruments to policy makers. So we can try to put the Fattoria Solidale del Circeo’s experience in a theoretic context. It seems to us that at least three different...

SOCIOECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINERS OF DURABLE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE FOOD-PRODUCING AGRICULTURE OF CAMEROON

Palavras-chave: Social agriculture; Innovation; Corporate Social Responsibility; Multifunctionality of Agriculture; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Labor and Human Capital.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57403

Temple, Ludovic; Kwa, Moise; Bikoi, Achile.

The challenges posed by food security for populations in sub-Saharan Africa and the fact that extensive production systems are reaching their limits in food-producing agriculture imply accelerating technological innovation toward ecological intensification of agricultural production systems. A review of research on plantain banana in Cameroon since 1988 revealed how institutional innovation enabled hybridization of different forms of research (fundamental, systems, and action research) and reinforced the organizational innovation required for technical change. Evaluation of impacts underlined the complementarity between an increase in productivity and in income in rural areas, the production of human and social capital and the protection of forest resources.

Palavras-chave: Innovation; Food crops; Cameroon; Sustainable development; Plantain; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7938

Spatial Development

Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban.

We present a theory of spatial development. A continuum of locations in a geographic area choose each period how much to innovate (if at all) in manufacturing and services. Locations can trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an endogenous growth theory that can shed light on the link between the evolution of economic activity over time and space. We apply the model to study the evolution of the U.S. economy in the last few decades and find that the model can generate the reduction in the employment share in manufacturing, the increase in service productivity in the second part of the 1990s, the increase in land rents in the same period, as well as several other spatial and temporal patterns.