Unpacking systemic innovation capacity as strategic ambidexterity: How projects dynamically configure capabilities for agricultural innovation
Summary. Agricultural innovation projects succeed by strategically balancing exploitation of existing capabilities with exploration of new ones across multiple levels of innovation systems. The authors studied two New Zealand projects addressing lamb survival and sustainable land management, finding that project actors must configure resources and capabilities across individual, organizational, and network levels to overcome capability gaps and break unhelpful path dependencies. Effective projects require dedicated facilitators for reflexive monitoring and alignment with innovation policies supporting sustainable development goals.
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Turner, J., Klerkx, L., White, T., Nelson, T., Everett-Hincks, J. M., Mackay, A. D., & Botha, N.. (2017). Unpacking systemic innovation capacity as strategic ambidexterity: How projects dynamically configure capabilities for agricultural innovation. Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.07.054
Turner, James, et al. “Unpacking systemic innovation capacity as strategic ambidexterity: How projects dynamically configure capabilities for agricultural innovation.” Land Use Policy, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.07.054.
Turner, James, Laurens Klerkx, Toni White, Tracy Nelson, J. M. Everett-Hincks, A. D. Mackay, and Neels Botha. 2017. “Unpacking systemic innovation capacity as strategic ambidexterity: How projects dynamically configure capabilities for agricultural innovation.” Land Use Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.07.054.
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title = {Unpacking systemic innovation capacity as strategic ambidexterity: How projects dynamically configure capabilities for agricultural innovation},
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- 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.07.054
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- New Zealand
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- Oceania
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- agtech, regional-innovation-systems, policy
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- 2026-04-28