Promoting Innovation: How can Switzerland strengthen its contribution to rural development in the international context?
Symposium, Bern, Switzerland, 17 November 2010
Who is the driving force behind innovation in rural areas? Is it research, farmers or rural advisory services? Or is it rather politics and the market?
When studying innovative processes in Switzerland or abroad, one realizes that innovation is the outcome of the interaction of different actors and given framework conditions. Not only necessity is the mother of innovation, also openness and desire for change as well as good communication and collaboration encourage trying new things in new ways. In Switzerland and in development cooperation we are equally faced with the challenges to bring together different actors, to promote knowledge sharing and to foster favouring conditions for innovations.
The symposium offers a platform for exchanging experiences both from Switzerland and international collaboration. It promotes the dialogue between actors of the agricultural knowledge system about innovative processes and wants to identify potentials for improvement – particularly for the Swiss contribution in international development cooperation.
Themes of past events
The Challenge of Climate change for Agriculture and FoodBern, Switzerland, 16 April 2010
