With the publication of the book “Stories From All Corners To Start With”, the AgriSpin partners aim at creating a baseline for the project. At the end of the project, this baseline will be revisited, when new innovation stories are collected.

Stories are a central part of AgriSpin

Stimulating innovations at farm level is for each of the partners a part of their job. This means that all the partners have stories they are proud of. Stories with puzzles. Stories with cliff-hangers. Achievements they are proud of. Struggles they have gone through. Pearls to share and puzzles for which, the AgriSpin project will hopefully find solutions.

This book is a collection of these stories at the start of a discovery journey that will take two-and-a-half years: the duration of the AgriSpin project. Each partner has written at least one story. The result provides an interesting inside look at the diversity of practices in the different corners of the European Union.

Content of the Book

This first book briefly describes the context of the AgriSpin project, who the partners are and what they intend to do during the project. The main part, however, consists of the stories. The concluding part of the book reflects on what this collection tells us about the point of departure in the project. What is the AgriSpin project curious for? What questions will set the initial course for the discovery tour in which the project engages?

Will AgriSpin Give Solutions?

During the AgriSpin project, the partners will visit each other and try to understand how things work under particular circumstances in other European countries. At the end of the project period, the second volume of this book will be made. What stories will be collected by then? Will they be significantly different from this first volume? What will appear to be the pearls that inspired others to implement changes? For what puzzles did the AgriSpin project find solutions? And what can be said about the contribution of this project to innovation theories?

About the Book

The book “Stories From All Corners To Start With” was edited by Eelke Wielinga and Sjoerd Robijn. The subtitle is “Nineteen Stories About Innovation From European Innovation Support Agencies in Agriculture and Rural Development, at the Start of the AgriSpin Project.

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