Innovations within the organic food sector – basis for novel business relations between agricultural and processing enterprises
Franz-Theo Gottwald, I. Borgen · Organic Eprints (International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture) · 2008
Innovations within the processing sector may stimulate new, and extend and stabilize existing business relations with agricultural enterprises along the market chain. Due to their regional focus, small and medium-sized businesses in organic food production are eminently dependent on collaboration. On the basis of the evaluation of 140 applications for the Innovation Contest, this paper demonstrates how new and sustainable revenues can be built up by entering economic collaborations with innovative businesses of the processing sector.