Innovation in agri-food clusters : theory and case studies /

• Main Authors: Phillips, Peter W. B., (Author), Karwandy, Jeremy, (Author), Webb, Graeme, (Author), Ryan, Camille D., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Subjects: Agricultural innovations > Case studies. > Saskatoon > Saskatchewan; Food industry and trade > Case studies. > Saskatoon > Saskatchewan; Agricultural industries > Case studies. > Saskatoon > Saskatchewan; Agricultural Economics.; Food Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Agroindustrial sector.; Case studies.; Economic theory.; Food industry.; Innovations.; Models.; Oilseeds.; Policy.; Electronic books.
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This book offers an integrated, comprehensive assessment of agri-food innovation theories and their applications. It explores the models, methods and metrics of innovation analysis in the context of a single centre - the global agrifood and oilseeds complex centred in Saskatoon, Canada. Over the pas...

Table of Contents:

• The blind leading the blind along the innovation pathway
• The economic explanation for innovation
• Clusters and traded interdependencies: place-based theories and models
• Policies, strategies and metrics related to place in Saskatoon
• Local links and global pipelines: innovation systems theories and models
• Policies, strategies and metrics related to innovation processes in Saskatoon
• Stars and innovation athletes: people-based theories and models
• Policies, strategies and metrics related to people in Saskatoon
• Moving innovation studies from comparative statics to networked dynamics
• Evidence-informed policy for the 21st century.