The Transforum Model: Transforming Agro Innovation Toward Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9789048197804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 162 str.

Henk Van Latesteijn; Karin Andeweg

Opis

Innovation has driven agricultural production and productivity growth in recent decades, with negative impact on the physical and social environment. This book offers new insights on harnessing innovation to the complex challenges of sustainable development.

Spis treści

Preface Chapter 1. The need for a new agro innovation system 1.1. Introduction: The challenge; 1.2. Innovating in the agricultural system; 1.3. Sustainable development as an innovation target; 1.4. Characteristics of innovation and the innovation system; 1.5. System innovation as a process of engagement; 1.6. Five motivating assumptions for enhancing sustainable development in agriculture; 1.7. Stimulating sustainable development in a learning-by-doing experiment; 1.8. References Chapter 2. Inventions for future sustainable development in agriculture 2.1. Inventions – an introduction; 2.2. Inventions in agricultural infrastructure; 2.3. Three ways to stimulate needed inventions;2.4. Conclusion; 2.5. References Chapter 3. Organizing innovations and transitions 3.1. Introduction: Context of the research; 3.2. Theoretical building blocks; 3.3. Coming in from the Space of Flows; 3.4. Where the Space of Flows meets the Space of Places; 3.5. Conclusion: breaking the developmental lock-in; 3.6. References Chapter 4. For or Against Innovation? The influence of images 4.1. Introduction;4.2. Images in innovation; 4.3. Hypotheses and research approach; 4.4. The role of images – case studies; 4.5. Dealing with images in innovation; 4.6. Conclusion; 4.7. References Chapter 5. Mobilizing consumer demand for sustainable development 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Attitude-behavior gaps; 5.3. Stimulating sustainable consumer behavior; 5.4. Facilitating the three routes of mobilizing sustainable consumption; 5.5. Key lessons learned; 5.6. Conclusion; 5.7. References Chapter 6. From motivating assumptions to a practical innovation model 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Methodology; 6.3. Performance of cases and assumptions; 6.4. Influence of explanatory attributes and links to motivating assumptions; 6.5. From motivating assumptions to a practical innovation model for innovation; 6.6. Key learnings from working with the motivating assumptions and core strategies; 6.7. Applying the TransForum model; 6.8. References Chapter 7. Transforming agriculture: a new approach to stimulate sustainable development 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. The TransForum model; 7.3. Contributions from scientific disciplines; 7.4. A promising perspective Appendix I. TransForum: stimulating innovation for sustainable development by learning by doing Action experiments Scientific research Learning projects Appendix II. Action experiments explicated Appendix III. Overview experiments & projects Action experiments Scientific research projects Learning projects Appendix IV

Blurb

The TransForum Model: Transforming Agro-innovation Toward Sustainable Development presents new insights on how to use innovation for the complex challenge of sustainable development. Innovation has been at the heart of the positive agricultural developments in both production and productivity growth during the last decades. Due to the negative impact of these developments on the physical and social environment, a transformational change of the agricultural sector is needed to shift toward a more sustainable development. Changing the agro innovation system is necessary to bring this about. In this book, six years of experimenting with sustainable development in agriculture is translated into a set of principles and guidelines. Together these constitute The TransForum Model to deal with innovation and sustainable development. This book shows how different scientific disciplines contribute to this new mode of agro innovation.