Unpacking systemic innovation capacity as strategic ambidexterity: How projects dynamically configure capabilities for agricultural innovation

Turner, James A.; Klerkx, Laurens; White, Toni; Nelson, Tracy; Everett-Hincks, Julie; Mackay, A. D.; Botha, Neels

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.07.054

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“…It has for example been argued that an AIS in a country may on the one hand still be focused on improving ‘business-as-usual’, while on the other hand may have the characteristics of a MAIS with highly transformative ambitions ( Pigford et al, 2018 ). This would require what has been referred to as ‘ambidexterity’ ( Turner et al, 2017 ; Rathenau Institute, 2020 ), i.e. the capacity of an AIS to simultaneously manage existing networks and policies to support (incremental) innovation in current food systems, and create new networks and policies to overcome lock-in and support radical innovation and food systems transformation.…”

Section: Mission-oriented Agricultural Innovation Systems: What Whymentioning

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Supporting food systems transformation: The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems

Klerkx

Begemann

2020

Agricultural Systems

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Agricultural innovation systems has become a popular approach to understand and facilitate agricultural innovation. However, there is often no explicit reflection on the role of agricultural innovation systems in food systems transformation and how they relate to transformative concepts and visions (e.g. agroecology, digital agriculture, Agriculture 4.0, AgTech and FoodTech, vertical agriculture, protein transitions). To support such reflection we elaborate on the importance of a mission-oriented perspective on agricultural innovation systems. We review pertinent literature from innovation, transition and policy sciences, and argue that a mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems (MAIS) approach can help understand how agricultural innovation systems at different geographical scales develop to enable food systems transformation, in terms of forces, catalysts, and barriers in transformative food systems change. Focus points can be in the mapping of missions and sub-missions of MAIS within and across countries, or understanding the drivers, networks, governance, theories of change, evolution and impacts of MAIS. Future work is needed on further conceptual and empirical development of MAIS and its connections with existing food systems transformation frameworks. Also, we argue that agricultural systems scholars and practitioners need to reflect on how the technologies and concepts they work on relate to MAIS, how these represent a particular directionality in innovation, and whether these also may support exnovation.

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“… 9 Innovation capacity is built through the practices, routines or processes used to mobilise, create and reconfigure arrangements of resources and capabilities in order to innovate ( Turner et al, 2017 ). Exnovation as a concept has had limited application in agriculture and food systems, but there is ongoing work, see e.g.…”

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Supporting food systems transformation: The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems

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Begemann

2020

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“…This digi-MAST framework overlays a constructivist lens, that different actors have different views of ‘reality’, to the realist digital technological development process whereby 0 s and 1 s must be coded to formulate the ‘objective’ digital worlds we create (Scholz and Steiner 2015 ). The digi-MAST framework recognises the importance of building individual and collective absorptive capacity—the capacity to transform modes of thinking and doing through iterative social learning (Turner et al 2017 )—through digi-grasping (Dufva and Dufva 2019 ). To test the utility of this framework we need to explore individual human actor relationships with specific technologies through our qualitative data.…”

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Grasping at digitalisation: turning imagination into fact in the sugarcane farming community

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Nutrient runoff from catchments that drain into the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is a significant source of stress for this World Heritage Area. An alliance of collaborative on-ground water quality monitoring (Project 25) and technologically driven digital application development (Digiscape GBR) projects were formulated to provide data that highlighted the contribution of a network of Australian sugar cane farmers, amongst other sources, to nutrient runoff. This environmental data and subsequent information were extended to the farming community through scientist-led feedback sessions and the development of specialised digital technology (1622™WQ) that help build an understanding of the nutrient movements, in this case nitrogen, such that farmers might think about and eventually act to alter their fertilizer application practices. This paper reflects on a socio-environmental sustainability challenge that emerged during this case study, by utilising the nascent concept of digi-grasping. We highlight the importance of the entire agricultural knowledge and advice network being part of an innovation journey to increase the utility of digital agricultural technologies developed to increase overall sustainability. We develop the digi-MAST analytical framework, which explores modes of being and doing in the digital world, ranging from ‘the everyday mystery of the digital world (M)’, through digital ‘awareness (A)’, digitally ‘sparked’ being/s (S), and finally the ability of individuals and/or groups to ‘transform (T)’ utilising digital technologies and human imaginations. Our digi-MAST framework allows us to compare agricultural actors, in this case, to understand present modes of digi-grasping to help determine the resources and actions likely to be required to achieve impact from the development of various forms of digital technological research outputs.

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“…Pese a que el reto es claro, las soluciones no son tan sencillas. Por lo que en la literatura reciente se ha comenzado a discutir con mayor detenimiento sobre los procesos de gestión y coconstrucción de capacidades (Turner et al, 2017;Šūmane et al, 2018). En estos estudios, se parte del análisis de la dimensión socio-organizacional que acompaña el diseño de las políticas y esquemas de innovación y extensión, en un esfuerzo por superar el reduccionismo tecnocientificista que primó en las décadas anteriores (Leeuwis, 2004).…”

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La gestión del conocimiento para la innovación y el desarrollo rural:

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Sáenz-Ségura

2020

Yulök

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El objetivo del artículo es revisar la evolución conceptual de la gestión del conocimiento, para luego analizar su operacionalización en dos experiencias de extensión en Costa Rica. Se utilizan los estudios de caso como herramienta metodológica y el enfoque de los sistemas de innovación agropecuaria como lente analítico. Se plantea que la gestión del conocimiento rural es un fenómeno relativamente nuevo en Costa Rica. No obstante, las iniciativas presentadas buscan un cambio de paradigma que mejore el abordaje de las problemáticas rurales más complejas. Se concluye con algunas limitaciones del estudio y elementos para avanzar en la construcción de una agenda de investigación en el tema.

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Unpacking systemic innovation capacity as strategic ambidexterity: How projects dynamically configure capabilities for agricultural innovation

Cited by 72 publications

References 108 publications

Supporting food systems transformation: The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems

Supporting food systems transformation: The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems

Grasping at digitalisation: turning imagination into fact in the sugarcane farming community

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