Public-private partnerships as systemic agricultural innovation policy instruments – Assessing their contribution to innovation system function dynamics

Q1 Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences Pub Date : 2019-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.njas.2018.10.001

Frans Hermans , Floor Geerling-Eiff , Jorieke Potters , Laurens Klerkx

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Abstract

This paper addresses the question how public-private partnerships function as systemic innovation policy instruments within agricultural innovation systems. Public-private partnerships are a popular government tool to promote innovations. However, the wide ranging nature of PPPs make it difficult to assess their effects beyond the direct impacts they generate for the partners. This paper broadens the discussion on the evaluation of PPPs beyond the organisational and financial benefits of the actors involved, and assesses their contribution to the functioning of the innovation system itself. In this paper, we utilise an innovation system perspective that focusses on how PPPs influence the dynamic interplay of innovation system functions and how these functions form a set of feedback loops that constitute an ‘innovation motor’. We compare the innovation history of four cases that differ in their strategic policy goals, either working on agricultural sustainability, or on the international competitiveness in the Dutch agricultural sector. The results show the strengths and weaknesses of different types of public-private partnerships as systemic instruments and their capability to orchestrate other types of innovation policy instruments.

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公私伙伴关系作为系统性农业创新政策工具——评估其对创新系统功能动态的贡献

本文探讨了公私伙伴关系如何在农业创新系统中作为系统创新政策工具发挥作用。公私伙伴关系是政府促进创新的常用工具。然而，公私伙伴关系的广泛性质使得很难评估其对合作伙伴产生的直接影响之外的影响。本文扩大了对公私伙伴关系评估的讨论，超越了参与者的组织和财务利益，并评估了它们对创新系统本身功能的贡献。在本文中，我们利用创新系统的视角，重点关注ppp如何影响创新系统功能的动态相互作用，以及这些功能如何形成一组构成“创新马达”的反馈回路。我们比较了四个案例的创新历史，它们的战略政策目标不同，要么致力于农业可持续性，要么致力于荷兰农业部门的国际竞争力。研究结果显示了不同类型的公私伙伴关系作为系统性工具的优势和劣势，以及它们协调其他类型创新政策工具的能力。

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Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 农林科学-农业综合

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期刊介绍： The NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, published since 1952, is the quarterly journal of the Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences. NJAS aspires to be the main scientific platform for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on complex and persistent problems in agricultural production, food and nutrition security and natural resource management. The societal and technical challenges in these domains require research integrating scientific disciplines and finding novel combinations of methodologies and conceptual frameworks. Moreover, the composite nature of these problems and challenges fits transdisciplinary research approaches embedded in constructive interactions with policy and practice and crossing the boundaries between science and society. Engaging with societal debate and creating decision space is an important task of research about the diverse impacts of novel agri-food technologies or policies. The international nature of food and nutrition security (e.g. global value chains, standardisation, trade), environmental problems (e.g. climate change or competing claims on natural resources), and risks related to agriculture (e.g. the spread of plant and animal diseases) challenges researchers to focus not only on lower levels of aggregation, but certainly to use interdisciplinary research to unravel linkages between scales or to analyse dynamics at higher levels of aggregation. NJAS recognises that the widely acknowledged need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, also increasingly expressed by policy makers and practitioners, needs a platform for creative researchers and out-of-the-box thinking in the domains of agriculture, food and environment. The journal aims to offer space for grounded, critical, and open discussions that advance the development and application of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research methodologies in the agricultural and life sciences.