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Cross-overs between Agro and High Tech
Mirte Cofino, Renze van Och, Peter SmeetsWageningen UR, The Netherlands
Technical innovations enabling spatial quality
Parallel Session 3.2: Clusters Promoting Cooperation and Effective Convergence between Industries
Food security: an urgent challenge
Population growth: rapid and uneven
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Food clusters are inherently part of a ‘global pipeline’
Connected markets worldwide
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Image source: Port of Rotterdam (2015)
Exchange of food flows is a prerequisite
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Metropolises have a pivotal role to play in this respect
Key market Fragile in the face of food shortages Need for physical integration of food in urban spatial
fabric
Northwest European Delta Metropolis
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Cross-overs are plentiful
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Kamer kritisch op plan intensieve veehouderij
“We hebben in Nederland al een mestprobleem
en dat wordt met de groei van de
melkveehouderij alleen maar groter”,
(Jacomijn Pluimers – Milieudefensie)
Brabant moet vergunning voor boeren aanscherpen“De provincie Noord-Brabant gaat ruim 1.500 vergunningaanvragen voor uitbreiding van een boerenbedrijf met strengere criteria beoordelen. Een (flink) aantal van de aanvragers zal hierdoor waarschijnlijk geen vergunning krijgen.”
Provincie betreurt impasse veehouderij
Expansion of livestock industries is sheer impossible in the region
‘Large scale’ is no social favorite
Eindhoven and its surroundings
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Challenges
1.Create an attractive living environment for the cities
1.Create an attractive living environment for the cities
2.Protect valuable nature
Challenges
1.Create an attractive living environment for the cities
2.Protect valuable nature
3.Facilitate the development of the agro sector
Challenges
High-tech potential: vertical integration
High-tech potential: horizontal integration
High-tech potential: advanced agrologistics
Without intervention, clustering will not take place
3. Preliminary lessons: obstacles and opportunities
Preconditions are good:Agro and high-tech are already densely represented and ‘clustered’ in physical terms in and around Eindhoven region
●A highly advanced high-tech cluster with its origins in the presence of Philips as large-scale innovator
●A world leading ‘cluster’ of innovative agrobusinessBut: the troubled reputation of the agro sector does not help in structurally and competitively linking the relationship between both sectors
●Social struggle with theme ‘food’ and ‘industries’Potential solutions from physical clustering
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A lot is still to be done
The agro sector may benefit from physical clustering, but this is not self-evident: facilitation is a prerequisite.
Cluster management will be needed to enhance cluster identity
Internal competition is killing: Greenports, business parks and ‘valleys’ – all of this in just one metropolis
High-tech and agro find one another in the market, but cultures remain strictly separated. High-tech is rather organized, whereas agro is much less so.
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Thank you!
... and looking forward to meeting you again at TCI Eindhoven 2016!
Mirte [email protected]+31 6 2211 5076
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