1. Changing the future: from foresight to innovation
Dr.ir. Jan de Wilt
Innovation Network
Netherlands

2. Innovation Network Reinventing agribusiness and rural areas
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Innovation Network Reinventing agribusiness and rural areas
Why created?
Goals
Organisation and funding
How do we work?
Examples
Results and evaluation

3. Why was Innovation Network created?
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Why was Innovation Network created?
Urgent need for drastic innovation of agriculture, agribusiness and rural areas
Poor implementation of results from previous foresight exercises

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Goals
Develop new paradigms and concepts for agriculture, agribusiness and rural areas
Bring these concepts into practice as the start of a transition process

5. Organisation and funding
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Organisation and funding
Independent with own board
Funding by Ministry of Agriculture
Budget € 4,5 million per year
Evaluation every 5 years

6. How do we work? Clear targets Small, high level staff
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How do we work?
Clear targets
Small, high level staff
Typical network organisation
Recognition of innovative concepts
Not afraid of conflicts
Intensive use of the media

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Steps
Explore necessary paradigm shifts and generate groundbreaking concepts
Build networks of stakeholders around those concepts
Create room (“free ports”) for experimentation/pilots
Transfer ownership of concepts to stakeholders

8. Foresight tools used Creativity Future workshops, visioning
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Foresight tools used
Creativity Future workshops, visioning
Expert opinion Participatory appoaches
Causal analysis Stakeholder analysis, sustainability analysis, social impact analysis
Roadmapping Backcasting, technology roadmapping
Economic analysis Cost benefit analysis

9. Challenge: Transition to sustainable agriculture in Deltametropole
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Challenge: Transition to sustainable agriculture in Deltametropole

10. Example 1: Agriculture in seaports
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Example 1: Agriculture in seaports

11. Example 2: Glasshouse as heat collector
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Example 2: Glasshouse as heat collector

12. Example 3: Ocean Farming
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Example 3: Ocean Farming

13. Results 2000-2005 24 innovative concepts
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Results
24 innovative concepts
7 concepts successfully implemented
17 concepts still in development phase
2 award winning concepts
Programme will be continued

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Impact
Debate in society on new paradigms and concepts (using free publicity by media)
Coalitions between parties from different domains (e.g. agriculture and energy)
Feasibility studies and business cases around new concepts
Pilots in practice, with innovators in the lead

15. Enquiry among stakeholders in 2005
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Enquiry among stakeholders in 2005
About 1000 respondents
80% of respondents qualified results as good or excellent
High appreciation for innovative character of concepts
Tension between long term ambition and short term results