Analysis of the Role of an Innovation Broker Appointed by a Cotton Industry Environmental Innovation Partnership in Queensland, Australia
Analysis of the Role of an Innovation Broker Appointed by a Cotton Industry Environmental Innovation Partnership in Queensland, Australia
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澳大利亚昆士兰州棉花产业环境创新合作伙伴任命的创新经纪人的作用分析
DOI：
10.5367/oa.2014.0177
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发表时间：
2014
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3
通讯作者：
G. Hamilton
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作者：
O. Hood;J. Coutts;G. Hamilton
农业创新系统的成果可以被视为多种相互作用、多层次、持续时间不同的举措的新兴产物。环境创新伙伴关系、组织团体和创新经纪人（IB）的新语言体现了这一观点。在此分析的棉花种植系统案例中，参与者在农业环境激励计划的刺激下建立了可被视为创新的伙伴关系，该计划支持在流域内的农场实施环境敏感的灌溉做法。参与者集中资源并任命了一名短期IB，以促进当地灌溉者及其农艺顾问“购买知识”，以满足他们自我确定的灌溉知识需求。国际局还促进了合作伙伴的各种灌溉、水、棉花和流域倡议之间的联系。合作伙伴假设将会出现新的或经过修改的组织分组，并且会导致全系统的实践变化，并且如果新的组织安排能够在项目后得以维持，则可以实现系统变革的持续能力的遗产。这项研究表明，短期目标得到了实现，但预期的项目后遗产并未出现。本文讨论了对创新经纪和评估此类伙伴关系的影响。
The outcomes of agricultural innovation systems can be viewed as the emergent product of multiple interacting, multilevel, concomitant initiatives of diverse duration. The new language of environmental innovation partnerships, organizational groups and innovation brokers (IBs) engages with this perspective. In the cotton farming systems case analysed here, the participants developed what could be considered to be an innovation partnership, stimulated by an agri-environmental incentive scheme that supported on-farm implementation of environmentally sensitized irrigation practices within a catchment. The participants pooled their resources and appointed a short-term IB to facilitate the ‘purchase of knowledge’ by local irrigators and their agronomic advisers, relevant to their self-identified irrigation knowledge needs. The IB also facilitated linkages among the partners' various irrigation, water, cotton and catchment initiatives. The partners hypothesized that new or modified organizational groupings would emerge and that system-wide practice changes would result, and that if the new organizational arrangements could be sustained post-project, a legacy of ongoing capability for systemic change could be achieved. This research shows that the short-term objectives were met, but the expected post-project legacy did not emerge. The paper discusses the implications for innovation brokerage and evaluation of such partnerships.