Networks with free actors: an organic approach to innovation and transition

Eelke Wielinga; Florentien Geerling-Eiff

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Networks with free actors: an organic approach to innovation and transition

In: Transitions towards sustainable agriculture and food chains in peri-urban areas

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Pages:: 113–137

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-688-5_009

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Innovation is an autonomous process: it cannot be forced. It occurs if conditions are favourable. The same is true for transitions. Major shifts in the orientation of actors within networks can’t be realised in a relatively short period either. However, it is possible to foster the necessary conditions for innovation by using new insights and methodologies that have been designed to create these conditions. In the search for ways of speeding up the process of change, we have to determine the factors that influence these conditions in both a positive or a negative way. In practical terms this translates into determining the obstacles that prevent individuals taking the initiative. This chapter focuses on the role of ‘free actors’ in networks for innovation and transition. Free actors have the position and the capacity to do what is necessary to create a network conducive to innovation. As in all organic systems, evolutionary development towards task division, specialisation and more complex forms of organisation will occur as long as all parts of the system remain interconnected. In times of transition, dysfunctional or strangulating connections have to be replaced by new ones. It takes actors with freedom to act to work on making new connections and do whatever is necessary to ensure that these connections flourish.

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Transitions towards sustainable agriculture and food chains in peri-urban areas

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Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 24 Oct 2009

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