Innovation challenges for European agriculture

Wilt, J.G. de; Diederen, Paul; Butter, Marcelo Careaga; Tukker, Arnold

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“…With regard to agricultural sustainability, to date, new technologies are available to induce farmers to reduce the environmental impacts of their activities; however, the costs of these climate-smart technologies compared to uncertain benefits can constitute a barrier to innovations (Long et al, 2016;de Wilt et al, 2001), especially for small-size businesses (see e.g. Pedersen and Pedersen, 2006, and their adoption of precision farming technology).…”

Section: Current Uncertainty In the Agricultural Sectormentioning

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Intellectual capital in support of farm businesses’ strategic management: a case study

Cavicchi

Vagnoni

2018

JIC

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the role of and relationships between human, structural and relational capital assets for strategic management in a farm business. In particular, it analyzes the interaction between human capital’s creativity skills and the introduction of climate-smart technologies for the competitiveness of the firm. Design/methodology/approach An explorative case study was conducted on one of the largest Italian farm businesses to gain an understanding of the drivers of intellectual capital (IC) and of their implications for strategic management. Full-time employees’ perception of the skills required to achieve strategic goals and their perception of whether they possessed these abilities were investigated to determine if an alignment was present. The skills were subsequently classified using the framework of Amabile (1988) into domain-relevant and creativity-relevant skills. Then, two linear regression models were used to investigate the effects of training on the acquisition of these two sets of skills. Findings The analysis confirmed the strategic role of interactions among human capital assets to effectively exploit the structural capital of the company. When investigating employees’ perceptions, a gap emerged about informatics capabilities and knowledge of soils. As the company’s investments in innovation are oriented to ICT technologies, the company could strengthen informatics training to enable its employees to implement effective innovation. Originality/value The paper contributes to the literature on IC by highlighting the role of interconnections of assets to align organizations with their strategic goals. Therefore, the provision of IC accounting contributes to the strategic management of human capital.

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Section: Current Uncertainty In the Agricultural Sectormentioning

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Intellectual capital in support of farm businesses’ strategic management: a case study

Cavicchi

Vagnoni

2018

JIC

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“…This poses several challenges to agricultural producers with regard to choosing appropriate business strategies (e.g. specialization, diversification, or scale increase - Zilbermann et al, 1998;Van Huylenbroeck and Durand, 2003), and meeting product quality, food safety, sustainability, and animal welfare standards (De Wilt et al, 2001). In face of these challenges, policy discourse and the scientific literature now focus attention on entrepreneurship development (Lans et al, 2004;Phillipson et al, 2004).…”

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Matching demand and supply in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure: Experiences with innovation intermediaries

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“…ICTs will consist of electronic and digital based solutions for capturing, processing, sharing, storing and retrieving information, hence for broadcasting and using data and images through technology based mechanism [31]. In this context, the dilemma in most of the agriculture domains is regarded to decide and realise whether to move towards to a more traditional, organic farming or to a modern biotechnology-based agriculture [32], which necessarily implies the combined use of: Knowledge Management, ICT, Collaborative solutions, Decision Support Systems and regulation management. However, the scenario is even more complex, and a well and up-to-date understanding is required.…”

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“…Real-life Case study Knowledge Management [30], [32], [49] [47], [49], [50] [47], [51], [52] [12], [18], [30], [49], [50], [47] Collaborative ICT Dimension/ approach…”

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Challenges and Solutions for Enhancing Agriculture Value Chain Decision-Making. A Short Review

Hernández

Kacprzyk

Panetto

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Increasingly challenging global and environmental requirements have resulted in agricultural systems coming under increasing pressure to enhance their resilience capabilities. This in special to respond to the abrupt changes in resource quality, quantity and availability, especially during unexpected environmental circumstances, such as uncertain weather, pests and diseases, volatile market conditions and commodity prices. Therefore, integrated solutions are necessary to support the knowledge-management, collaborative ICT solution, risk management and regulation management across agriculture stakeholders. Therefore, and based on the ongoing work under the H2020 RUC-APS project research network, this book chapter is oriented to contribute to agriculture value chain decision-making field to cover the current need on gathering a common understanding and appreciation of new trends in agriculture value chain, in special the multidisciplinary challenges. For this, a short a literature review is conducted to summarise the main findings on real application and current research trends. This within the objective to propose an integrated framework based on better use of communication ways, standardised structures, development of training and awareness, regulation based initiatives and vertical Integration.

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Innovation challenges for European agriculture

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Intellectual capital in support of farm businesses’ strategic management: a case study

Intellectual capital in support of farm businesses’ strategic management: a case study

Matching demand and supply in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure: Experiences with innovation intermediaries

Challenges and Solutions for Enhancing Agriculture Value Chain Decision-Making. A Short Review

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