The Role of Innovation Poles in Agri‐food System Development: The Case of Abruzzo’s Model

International Journal on Food System Dynamics Pub Date : 2019-08-23 DOI:10.18461/IJFSD.V10I4.21

N. Casolani, M. Perito, L. Liberatore

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The Innovation Poles represent a new industrial policy instruments to support the competitiveness of companies that favor the sharing of knowledge between companies and the convergence of investments on trajectories of innovation. This paper provides an indepth analysis of the case of Abruzzo Innovation Pole “Agire” Consortium, a cluster that includes food companies and joint research, innovation and strategic services. Results showed that requirements of companies to improve their competitiveness are not only devoted to research and innovation in strictly sense (product/process) but also to the exigence of general improvement of services oriented to market development, internationalization / export and support in participation in calls for projects proposal; companies’ point out the high cost of innovation as the main limitation; a general strategy improving internal and external policies could overcome or limit this barrier and facilitate the symbiosis process.

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创新极在农产品体系发展中的作用——以阿布鲁佐模型为例

创新极点代表了一种新的产业政策工具，支持公司之间的知识共享和创新轨迹上的投资趋同，从而提高公司的竞争力。本文对Abruzzo Innovation Pole“Agire”Consortium的案例进行了深入分析，这是一个包括食品企业和联合研究、创新和战略服务的集群。结果表明，公司提高竞争力的要求不仅是严格意义上的研究和创新(产品/工艺)，而且还需要普遍改善面向市场开发、国际化/出口和支持参与项目招标的服务;企业指出创新成本高是主要制约因素;改善内部和外部政策的总体战略可以克服或限制这一障碍，促进共生进程。

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International Journal on Food System Dynamics Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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期刊介绍： Understanding the development of the food system requires a system view that captures the complexity of the system and its many interrelationships with its economic, social and natural environments. The Journal accepts and offers papers within this broad range of issues focussing on the management, policy, marketing, consumer aspects, transparency, e-commerce, institutional or regional development, information and communication systems, ressource economics, production economics, chain management, network economics, and similar aspects. Papers may focus on modeling, empirical research or theoretical analyis. This broad range of publication opportunities asks authors to follow clear lines of arguments and to present arguments in a convincing way that avoids unnecessary complexities of model formulations if not relevant for the support of arguments. The publication of scientific articles is complemented by a number of sections that provide room for publications with a more specific focus: ''Case studies'': A section on case studies of the ''Harvard Type'' allows the publication of studies that might build on established scientific methodology but demonstrate its use in ceratin decision environments. Case studies might be complemented by ''teaching cases'' that are kept on a database outside the journal but accessible to readers on approval by authors. ''Research Forum'': It allows to discuss newly emerging research challenges or to contribute to ongoing scientific discussions on research problems. In addition, authors might initiate a discussion on issues brought up by articles published in the journal. ''Research Notes'': It provides room for specific shorter scientific contributions with a narrow scope.