• norsk
    • English
  • English 
    • norsk
    • English
  • Login
View Item 
  •   Home
  • Handelshøyskolen BI
  • Articles
  • Scientific articles
  • View Item
  •   Home
  • Handelshøyskolen BI
  • Articles
  • Scientific articles
  • View Item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Participatory innovation: lessons from breeding cooperatives

Borgen, Svein Ole; Aarset, Bernt
Journal article, Peer reviewed
Thumbnail
View/Open
LOCKED until 28.03.2018 due to copyright restrictions (147.4Kb)
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2392721
Date
2016
Metadata
Show full item record
Collections
  • Scientific articles [1667]
Original version
Agricultural Systems, 145(2016)June: 99-105   http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2016.03.002
Abstract
Throughout the last decades, breeding in the plant sector, husbandry and aquaculture has come under the ownership control of multinational, investor-owned firms. Breeding in these sectors is risky business, but can be extremely profitable for the involved parties. Against high odds, a few breeding cooperatives have successfully increased their competitiveness in breeding by means of collectively organized innovation, here referred to as “Participatory Innovation”. Illustrated by data from two Norwegian breeding cooperatives, we explore conditions for success at intra- and inter-organizational levels. Two factors seem particularly important: (a) Members are leveraged as co-innovators and benefit from a multiplier-effect and (b) The breeding cooperatives have established strategic alliances with external R&D-actors (research institutions, gene banks etc.). These alliances provide inbound knowledge that enable commodification and commercialization of novel scientific insights at the cooperative level. We argue that “Participatory innovation” is a distinct conceptual mode of innovation, differing from more well-known meta-approaches like “Vertically Integrated Innovation”, “Open innovation” and “User innovation”.
Description
This is the accepted, refereed and final manuscript to the article
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal
Agricultural Systems

Contact Us | Send Feedback

Privacy policy
DSpace software copyright © 2002-2019  DuraSpace

Service from  Unit
 

 

Browse

ArchiveCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDocument TypesJournalsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDocument TypesJournals

My Account

Login

Statistics

View Usage Statistics

Contact Us | Send Feedback

Privacy policy
DSpace software copyright © 2002-2019  DuraSpace

Service from  Unit