The TransForum Model: Transforming Agro Innovation Toward Sustainable Development
Samenvatting
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.
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Inhoudsopgave
<strong>Chapter 1. The need for a new agro innovation system</strong>
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
<strong>Chapter 2. Inventions for future sustainable development in agriculture</strong>
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
<strong>Chapter 3. Organizing innovations and transitions</strong>
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
<strong>Chapter 4. For or Against Innovation? The influence of images</strong>
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
<strong>Chapter 5. Mobilizing consumer demand for sustainable development</strong>
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
<strong>Chapter 6. From motivating assumptions to a practical innovation model</strong>
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
<strong>Chapter 7. Transforming agriculture: a new approach to stimulate sustainable development</strong>
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