ABSTRACT

Knowledge is a critical enabling factor for healthy agri-food innovation systems (AIS). AIS and related knowledge management (KM) frameworks face significant implementation challenges. We review applications of KM to AIS, the current state of the art and shortcomings and present a new KM framework, Agricultural Knowledge Management for Innovation (AKM4I). Previous agricultural KM frameworks do not integrate innovation pragmatically, use linear, reductionist, top-down pathways to innovation, and do not explicitly incorporate issues of power, politics, ownership, and trust when combining scientific and local knowledge across multiple stakeholders. The AKM4I framework addresses systemic interactions favouring innovation outcomes by formalising flows and management of information and knowledge between diverse sets of stakeholders; and explicitly considering previously unresolved practical and relational barriers aiming to facilitate more equitable, rapidly evolving, and actionable knowledge generation and management for innovation and transformational change. An agricultural case study serves as an example of the implementation of AKM4I.

摘要

知识是健康农业食品创新系统 (AIS) 的关键促成因素。AIS 和相关知识管理 (KM) 框架面临着重大的实施挑战。我们回顾了知识管理在 AIS 中的应用、当前的技术水平和缺点，并提出了一个新的知识管理框架，即农业知识管理创新 (AKM4I)。以前的农业知识管理框架没有务实地整合创新，没有使用线性、简化、自上而下的创新途径，也没有在将多个利益相关者的科学知识和当地知识结合起来时明确纳入权力、政治、所有权和信任问题。AKM4I 框架通过规范不同利益相关方之间信息和知识的流动和管理，解决有利于创新成果的系统性互动；并明确考虑以前未解决的实际和相关障碍，旨在促进更公平、快速发展和可操作的知识生成和管理，以促进创新和转型变革。农业案例研究是 AKM4I 实施的一个例子。