creators_name: Gottwald, Franz-Theo creators_name: Borgen, I. type: conference_item datestamp: 2008-09-30 lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:37:54 metadata_visibility: show title: Innovations within the organic food sector – basis for novel business relations between agricultural and processing enterprises ispublished: pub subjects: 1organics subjects: 2farming full_text_status: public keywords: Innovations within the processing sector may stimulate, extend and stabilize new business relations with agricultural enterprises. Due to their regional focus, medium-sized businesses in organic food production are eminently dependent on collaboration. On the basis of three examples, this paper demonstrates how new and sustainable revenues can be built up by entering economic collaborations with innovative businesses of the processing sector abstract: Innovations within the processing sector may stimulate new, and extend and stabilize existing business relations with agricultural enterprises along the market chain. Due to their regional focus, small and medium-sized businesses in organic food production are eminently dependent on collaboration. On the basis of the evaluation of 140 applications for the Innovation Contest, this paper demonstrates how new and sustainable revenues can be built up by entering economic collaborations with innovative businesses of the processing sector. date: 2008 date_type: published refereed: yes citation: Gottwald, Prof. Dr. Franz-Theo and Borgen, I. (2008) Innovations within the organic food sector – basis for novel business relations between agricultural and processing enterprises. Cultivating the Future Based on Science: 2nd Conference of the International Society of Organic Agriculture Research ISOFAR, Modena, Italy, June 18-20, 2008. document_url: http://orgprints.org/12158/1/12158.pdf