Nieuwenhuis, L. F. M. (2002) Innovation and learning in agriculture. Journal of European Industrial, 26 (6). pp. 283-291.
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Abstract
Innovation is a complex process, based on interactive network learning and processes of trial and error on the shop floor. Small companies, such as in agriculture, are depending on external knowledge infrastructures for effective innovation. Within small companies, the entrepreneur has a pivotal role in the innovative process: the entrepreneur is the professional learner. Learning and innovation as major parts of entrepreneurship are central to this contribution. How do farmers learn and innovate within a market-led, high-tech agricultural sector and what should governmental policy look like to support and facilitate innovation, avoiding the pitfall of protectionism? Two case studies are presented: one on linear innovation policy and one on learning processes of farmers. Innovative learning is balancing between the chaos of uncertainty and the old grooves of experience. Knowing how to escape this paradox forms the core competence of innovative entrepreneurship.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | NOTE: Extension is the used terminology in agricultural and rural development studies for a specific form of (public) information services, fitting in a linear approach of technology transfer. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Innovation, Learning,Entrepreneurialism, Agriculture, Information, Policy |
| Author Affiliation: | Stoas Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Agricultural Economics |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr Siva Shankar |
| Date Deposited: | 17 May 2012 05:42 |
| Last Modified: | 17 May 2012 05:43 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03090590210431256 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/5418 |
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