Supply-versus demand-driven knowledge dissemination: a focus on `strategic space'

In this paper three different knowledge systems the Dutch government introduced into the agricultural industry are discussed: the ‘knowledge triptych’, the ‘knowledge pyramid’ and the ‘knowledge network’. They range from a supply-driven approach in which knowledge is disseminated in linear and top-down fashion to a more demand-driven approach in which knowledge is disseminated in a circular and bottomup fashion. These two opposite approaches reflect developments in the Dutch agricultural industry. An important focal point of development is the shift from expansion and safeguarding food product... Mehr ...