Klerkx Laurens, Begemann Stephanie
Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
Agric Syst. 2020 Sep;184:102901. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2020.102901. Epub 2020 Aug 5.
Agricultural innovation systems has become a popular approach to understand and facilitate agricultural innovation. However, there is often no explicit reflection on the role of agricultural innovation systems in food systems transformation and how they relate to transformative concepts and visions (e.g. agroecology, digital agriculture, Agriculture 4.0, AgTech and FoodTech, vertical agriculture, protein transitions). To support such reflection we elaborate on the importance of a mission-oriented perspective on agricultural innovation systems. We review pertinent literature from innovation, transition and policy sciences, and argue that a mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems (MAIS) approach can help understand how agricultural innovation systems at different geographical scales develop to enable food systems transformation, in terms of forces, catalysts, and barriers in transformative food systems change. Focus points can be in the mapping of missions and sub-missions of MAIS within and across countries, or understanding the drivers, networks, governance, theories of change, evolution and impacts of MAIS. Future work is needed on further conceptual and empirical development of MAIS and its connections with existing food systems transformation frameworks. Also, we argue that agricultural systems scholars and practitioners need to reflect on how the technologies and concepts they work on relate to MAIS, how these represent a particular directionality in innovation, and whether these also may support exnovation.
农业创新系统已成为理解和推动农业创新的一种流行方法。然而，对于农业创新系统在粮食系统转型中的作用以及它们与变革性概念和愿景（如生态农业、数字农业、农业4.0、农业科技和食品科技、垂直农业、蛋白质转型）之间的关系，往往缺乏明确的思考。为了支持这种思考，我们阐述了以使命为导向的农业创新系统视角的重要性。我们回顾了创新、转型和政策科学方面的相关文献，并认为以使命为导向的农业创新系统（MAIS）方法有助于理解不同地理尺度的农业创新系统如何发展，以实现粮食系统转型，包括变革性粮食系统变化中的力量、催化剂和障碍。重点可以在于绘制MAIS在国内和跨国的使命及子使命，或者理解MAIS的驱动因素、网络、治理、变革理论、演变和影响。未来需要进一步在概念和实证方面发展MAIS及其与现有粮食系统转型框架的联系。此外，我们认为农业系统学者和从业者需要思考他们所研究的技术和概念如何与MAIS相关，这些技术和概念如何代表创新中的特定方向性，以及它们是否也可能支持去创新。
