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The Role of Innovation Poles in Agri-food System Development: The Case of Abruzzo’s Model

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  • Nicola Casolani

    (Department of Economics, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127 PE, Italy)

  • Maria Angela Perito

    (Facoltà di Bioscienze e tecnologie agro-alimentari e ambientali - Faculty of Bioscience and Agro-Food and Environmental Technology [Teramo] - UniTE - Università degli Studi di Teramo, ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)

  • Lolita Liberatore

    (Department of Economics, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127 PE, Italy)

Abstract

The Innovation Poles represent a new industrial policy instrument to support the competitiveness of companies that favor the sharing of knowledge between companies and the convergence of investments on trajectories of innovation. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the case of Abruzzo Innovation Pole "Agire" Consortium, a cluster that includes food companies and joint research, innovation and strategic services. Results showed that requirements of companies to improve their competitiveness are not only devoted to research and innovation in strictly sense (product/process) but also to the exigence of general improvement of services oriented to market development, internationalization / export and support in participation in calls for projects proposal; companies' point out the high cost of innovation as the main limitation; a general strategy improving internal and external policies could overcome or limit this barrier and facilitate the symbiosis process .

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  • Nicola Casolani & Maria Angela Perito & Lolita Liberatore, 2019. "The Role of Innovation Poles in Agri-food System Development: The Case of Abruzzo’s Model," Post-Print hal-04554476, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04554476
    DOI: 10.18461/ijfsd.v10i4.21
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    1. Markina, Iryna & Somych, Nikolai & Taran-Lala, Olena & Varaksina, Elena & Potapiuk, Iryna & Vovk, Mykola, 2022. "Managerial Aspects of Forming Enterprises’ Competitive Advantages: The Case of Agri-food Sector," International Journal on Food System Dynamics, International Center for Management, Communication, and Research, vol. 13(01), January.

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