NETGROW
Enhancing the innovativeness of food SME’s through the management of strategic network behaviour and network learning performance
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Organization address
address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Belgium [BE] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.netgrow.eu/ |
| Totale costo | 3˙646˙352 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙956˙186 € |
| Programma | FP7-KBBE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology |
| Code Call | FP7-KBBE-2009-3 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2010 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2010-05-01 - 2014-04-30 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Organization address
address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 contact info |
BE (GENT) | coordinator | 647˙079.00 |
| 2 |
Stichting Food Valley
Organization address
address: Agro Businesspark 10 contact info |
NL (Wageningen) | participant | 397˙720.00 |
| 3 |
TEAGASC - AGRICULTURE AND FOOD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Organization address
address: Oak Park contact info |
IE (CARLOW) | participant | 351˙592.00 |
| 4 |
SKANES LIVSMEDELSAKADEMI
Organization address
address: ANCKARGRIPSGATAN 3 contact info |
SE (MALMO) | participant | 316˙560.00 |
| 5 |
IFAU APS
Organization address
address: ENGHAVE 4 contact info |
DK (RUNGSTED KYST) | participant | 299˙640.00 |
| 6 |
RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN
Organization address
address: REGINA PACIS WEG 3 contact info |
DE (BONN) | participant | 285˙475.00 |
| 7 |
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
Organization address
address: Via Zamboni 33 contact info |
IT (BOLOGNA) | participant | 266˙760.00 |
| 8 |
ASSOCIATION DE GESTION INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE LASALLE BEAUVAIS
Organization address
address: RUE PIERRE WAGUET 19 contact info |
FR (BEAUVAIS) | participant | 222˙000.00 |
| 9 |
DEBRECENI EGYETEM
Organization address
address: EGYETEM TER 1 contact info |
HU (DEBRECEN) | participant | 169˙360.00 |
| 10 |
INSTITUTE FOR FOOD & AGROINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
Organization address
address: Venlighedsvej 6 contact info |
DK (Hoersholm) | participant | 0.00 |
| 11 |
KAREN THORSTED HAMANN - INSTITUTTET FOR FODEVARESTUDIER & AGRO INDUSTRIEL UDVIKLING IFAU
Organization address
address: ENGHAVE 4 contact info |
DK (RUNGSTED KYST) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Strategic network learning is of crucial importance for innovation as it enables the food company to expand its resource base and to absorb new trends and technologies. It is observed that food SMEs often fail in establishing a strategic and efficient network. This project sheds new light on this issue by combining research actions at two levels: the focal company level, investigating how attitudes and preferences determine the food SME’s individual network behaviour in order to achieve business objectives. The network level, investigating the functioning of the network as a whole and how this results in innovation and economic growth and how network stakeholders can make the network better performing. The project combines scientific research with developing network learning tools of practical use to food SMEs, network organisations and policy makers. A broad definition of networks is applied, including networking with competitors, suppliers, knowledge centres and a variety of other actors through formal and informal linkages. Research activities take three steps: (1) profound analysis of success factors and barriers for network learning. Particular focus is on the relationship between informal and formal networking and global networks. (2) Network behaviour is analysed at the focal company level, providing insight in network characteristics affecting innovation and SMEs’ preferences for different network designs. (3) a prototype tool is developed and tested to assess performance of the network at network level. In the development stage of the project, the network learning toolbox will be developed, market-tested and launched. It consists of a set of instruments to enhance the capacity of SME’s, network organizations and policy makers to improve network learning based on strategic network management. The strength of the toolbox lies in the confrontation of our instruments with the business perspective and two-stage testing within SMEs and network organizations.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Do you still believe there is a one-fits-all network? An EU project explored the best fit between innovation networks and the diverse needs and characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the food industry to improve the industry's innovation capacity.