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Title Steering 'green' innovation policy toward sustainability? Lessons from implementing EIP-AGRI in Sweden
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Authors Eckerberg, K; Bjarstig, T; Miljand, M
Title Steering 'green' innovation policy toward sustainability? Lessons from implementing EIP-AGRI in Sweden
Year 2023
Published
Abstract This article critically examines the state's steering capacity of 'green innovation' programs using Sweden's implementation of the agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) as a case representing part of the EU's Green Deal. The innovations should promote the competi-tiveness of rural areas and contribute to national environmental protection and climate goals.We found that despite expectations, implementation rests on compartmentalized networking within the agricultural sector, prioritizing increased 'competitiveness' before 'green' develop-ment, and interpreting 'innovation' mainly in the technical sense. The results indicate that the state ' s steering capacity of 'green innovation' programs meets several obstacles: the overall goals from the top tend to be both too many and too vague, leaving it to the administration to interpret what kinds of features should be prioritized from below. The state's steering in the case of EIP-AGRI relies mostly on internal agricultural expertise contrary to previous research that sug-gests a recent 'de-compartmentalisation' of European agricultural policymaking.
PDF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.100732

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