Innovation Intermediaries and Key-capability Development: Evidence from Organisations in Two Philippine Agri-food Business Industries

• Main Author: Go, Kevin Christopher
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: agri-food business; capability building; Innovation intermediary; organisational development; Philippines; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Development Studies; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/278; https://doi.org/10.1080/19761597.2024.2423224
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Innovation intermediaries can help boost and hasten the diffusion and adoption of technologies and practices in agri-food businesses, leading to better livelihoods, communities, and ecosystems. However, these organisations require several key-capabilities to ensure that their role performance leads to better innovation success for their stakeholders. This study employs a multiple case study approach to understand the key-capability building process and focuses on 18 innovation intermediaries in the rice and mango industries of the Philippines. The researcher finds that knowledge-building and management capabilities are essential and foundational across different organisation types. However, differences between organisations are seen in their networking-based capabilities. Moreover, the study finds four factors that may affect how innovation intermediaries build their key-capabilities. Additionally, evidence to support human resource development as a fifth key-capability and motivation as a third underlying capability was found. This study also provides policy and management implications for innovation intermediary key-capability development.