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Network Learning and Innovation in SME Formal Networks

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

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Title Network Learning and Innovation in SME Formal Networks
 
Creator Deiters, Jivka; University of Bonn
Schiefer, Gerhard; University of Bonn
 
Subject Network learning; network innovation; formal networks
 
Description The driver for this paper is the need to better understand the potential for learning and innovation that networks canprovide especially for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) which comprise by far the majority of enterprises in the food sector. With the challenges the food sector is facing in the near future, learning and innovation or more focused, as it is being discussed in the paper, ‘learning for innovation’ are not just opportunities but pre‐conditions for the sustainability of the sector. Network initiatives that could provide appropriate support involve social interaction and knowledge exchange, learning, competence development, and coordination (organization) and management of implementation. The analysis identifies case studies in any of these orientations which serve different stages of the innovation process: invention and implementation. The variety of network case studies cover networks linked to a focus group for training, research, orconsulting, networks dealing with focused market oriented product or process development, promotional networks, and networks for open exchange and social networking.
 
Publisher CentMA
 
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Date 2013-02-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/332
10.18461/ijfsd.v3i3.332
 
Source International Journal on Food System Dynamics; Vol 3, No 3 (2012): Special issue on networks and innovation; 201 - 213
1869-6945
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/332/273