CI Food Webinar Series: Dr. Peter W.B. Phillips
Governance Challenges Arising from Distributed Agri-Food Innovation
Peter WB Phillips
Peter WB Phillips is a Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Science and Innovation Policy within the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. He earned his Ph.D. at the LSE and practiced for 13 years as a professional economist in industry and government. At the University of Saskatchewan, he was the Van Vliet Research Professor, created and held an NSERC-SSHRC Chair in Managing Technological Change in Agriculture, was director of the virtual College of Biotechnology, was founding director of the JSGS.
Abstract
This webinar will explore a range of challenges of organizing and governing innovation in the context of re-search networks, partnerships, and innovation systems. The generational effort to exploit scale and scope ben-efits of larger scale research is now facing transformative change due to the advent of the massive intercon-nectivity of everything through the Internet of Things. Structuring these collaborative ventures is challenging at the best of times, as search, negotiation and enforcement costs are significant. The rewiring of our research system via the IoT will make a difficult process even more complicated. This webinar will review the ideas, in-centives and institutions that govern this space, and address some real-world examples of governance strate-gies and challenges drawn from research on Canadian agri-food research efforts.
About the series
The Convergent Innovation Webinar Series will feature cutting edge science, technology and innovation in agriculture, food and health domains as well as in the behavioural, commercial, social and complexity sciences. These, combined with traditions from around the world, will altogether articulate an interdisciplinary research and action strategy to transform agricultural products like pulses from undifferentiated commodities into higher-margin whole and value-added food products that support sustainable development and affordable healthcare. Progressively, programs in the CI-Food webinar series will be developed for other agricultural products with high CI potential, e.g., dairy, fruits, vegetables, and others.
