The Andreas Hermes Academy (AHA) helps farmers strengthen their entrepreneurial soft skills. By offering advanced courses, the Academy makes it possible for farmers to focus on their innovative skills even though they are busy running their farm. The innovation training of AHA is about the qualification of human beings on three levels. Firstly, the [...]
Larry is a farmer who has adopted the Economic Breeding Index (EBI). As a new decision making and benchmarking tool to help in choosing breeding stock for his farm, the EBI helps Larry select breeding stock. Previously, farmers used breeding information based solely on one animal trait. The EBI uses seven traits which are [...]
Public administrators, restaurant and canteen owners, and business owners in the tourism industry in the Cilento region of Italy started working together to promote local organic produce. By facilitating their cooperation, the organic farming association, AIAB, has helped the farmers to sustain their business. In 2004, farmers in the Cilento area of the Italian [...]
The Multiplier Group within AgriSpin has given this question some thought. According to the group’s final report the answer is at least threefold. It takes the creation of an ecosystem of innovation, a strong public support and coordination system as well as the development of networks. The Multiplier Group has finished its final recommendations. [...]
Innovators and support actors share many of the same personality traits. The difference between them, personality wise, stems from traits that characterize them in their professional setting. Advisors also have additional personality qualities beyond their professional lives that set them apart from the innovators. In the cases examined in the AgriSpin project, innovators share [...]
When examining innovation processes, it is clear that not only the phases of innovation, types of innovation and service providers influence the outcomes. The personality traits of the innovators are equally decisive for the success or failure of the innovation process. A new report from the Agrispin Scientific Team takes a closer look at [...]
Making use of your own and others’ networks, increases the chance of success in the innovation process. Important actors in this respect are advisors, innovation support services, public authorities and universities and research organisations in the science fields. The AgriSpin recommendations aim at inspiring these four actors to improve their practices. Visiting innovators and [...]
In the course of a year, the partners of AgriSpin have visited each other to study innovation cases all over Europe in order to collect knowledge about what support services can do to stimulate innovations at farm level. Two reports paint the full picture of the initial outcomes of the Cross Visits. Why Use [...]
Teagasc, the Irish advisory service, plays a central role in supporting on-farm technical and social innovation. Through the provision of independent advice, a multitude of extension methods and tools and playing an active role in the innovation support system, Teagasc makes its presence felt with the farmers. The Irish Pearls Communication and Collaboration The [...]
The analytical framework on which the Cross Visits are based have helped the AgriSpin partners link their practical experiences in AgriSpin to theory in general as well as to communicate in a consistent way throughout the Cross Visits. The conceptual framework of AgriSpin aims at facilitating the exchange of existing knowledge on innovative approaches [...]
