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Agricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovat Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6tors in an increasingly integrated Agriculture-Water-Food-Beverage-Bioenergy innovation ecosystem are gathering and growing along Colorado’s Front Range, creating nextgeneration technologies and business models to nourish, refresh, and energize the world.Colorado State UniversityAcknowledgmentsThis Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6project was made POSS ole by an Investment from the csu System venture Cap tai Fund made in August 201Ỉ.The authcrs would like to thank Dr. Rebecca JaColorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6
blonski of the csu Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Dr Denictv-'O Otsuga, of csu ventures, for helpful review comments The authorAgricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovat Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6 and Associate Dean of the College of liberal Arts, Dr. Lou Swanson of the csu Office of Engagement, as well as members of the csu President's Ag Advisory Council for helpful feedback and guidance at crucial points during the development of this study.All remaining omissions or errors are the respon Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6sibility of the authors.Photos courtesy of Dan Hilleman, professor emeritus, Colorado State University Extension.Recommended citation: G. Graff, A. BeColorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6
rklund, and K. Rennels, The Emergence of on Innovation Cluster in the Ap'icufturof Value CMn (rlMQ cotoraoeVf Front Honoe, Colorado state University. Agricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovat Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6 at Colorado state Unwersty In the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Or. Graffs specialty is the economics of innovation and entrepreneurship, and how industry changes in the face of new technologies At csu he teaches courses on U.S. agricultural policy, on the global food system, a Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6nd on technological change in agricultural production. Greg and his family operate a small farm just outside of Fort Collins.Annabelle Berklund J a PhColorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6
. D. student al Color ado State University in the department of Economics. Het dissertation research focuses on the impact ol public polices, particulAgricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovat Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6omic theory, any she is a cist I Ventures Ambassador. Annabelle grew up in western < nlorado, was 3 district president ol 411. and continues to eriicry outdoor sand equestrian sports.Kathay Rennets Assistant vice President e.f Community and hairwxnie Development st Colot ado State Universily. She wo Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6rks with die Office ol Engagement, Extension, and the Regional bronomirs Institute tn advance collaborative networks across the state arvj create econColorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6
omic development opportunities. Asa former county commissioner and stare board representative, she has significant eipe.ricnro fostering public and prAgricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovat Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6ort Collins.Executive summaryColorado nas :cng emoraced agriculture as central to its economy and innovation as an essential driver of economic growth. These two—agriculture and innovation—have been converging in Colorado fo- some time now, and the pace is p eking up. This study proposes that a numb Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6er o* geograph c, demographic, and economic factors are driving investment and engagement in innovation in the agricultural and *ood system, and the eColorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6
ssential elements are in place a ong the Colorado Front Range for the emergence and growth of an innovation-led industry cluster in ag'iculture and foAgricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovat Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6ider overlapping interests across the entire integrated value chain of agriculture.•To identify the geographic footprint of this emergent innovaton duster, deriving it empirically from a landscaoe analysis of innovation data. Th s is important to update conventional notions of agricultural innovatio Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6n as only involving rural areas.•To explore the fundamental factors that are favoring the Colorado Front Range as a location for innovation in the agrColorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6
icultural value chain, includ ng geographic, demographic, and economic factors.•To identify the main technology categories in which Colorado firms andAgricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovat Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6 organizations in Colorado that are engaged in innovation in the agricultural value chain, and their locations.•To recommend next steps for encouraging growth of this emergent innovation cluster, such as cultivating talent, coord nating mechanisms for collaboration, and financing of innovation.What Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6is an innovation cluster? Why is it important?An innovation cluster has been defined as "o geographically proximate set of interconnected companies anColorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6
d associated institutions in a particular field" where "co-location of the various stakeholders accelerates knowledge sharing and development of new pAgricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovat Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6hich the cluster arises. Companies benefit from economic advantages of engaging within a cluster. The region benefits from increasing employment and tax revenues, resulting in better services and a higher standard of living. The global economy benefits too from the emergence of a regional ecosystem Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6driving innovation.Pag* IIThe value chain of agriculture dictates the structure and scope of its innovation ecosystemUnderstanding the full scope andColorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6
structure of the value chain of agriculture is crucial to seeing the range of overlapping interests and thus tne potential scope for clustering dynamiAgricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovat Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6e entire flow of inputs and outputs that enable agricultural enterprises to realize the value of their unique capital base by meeting the needs affinal consumers.” The value chain involves greater than 200 separate industry subsectors. These range from farm land, irrigation, labor, and other agricul Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6tural inputs, to commodity marketing and processing, food and beverage manufacturing, v/ho esale, and retail of food, beverage, and other agriculturalColorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6
ly-derived products and services.The global imperatives, or opportunities, for innovation in agricultureGlobally, agriculture confronts a number of crAgricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovat Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6 Prices have risen at an average pace of 6 percent annually since 2000, after almost a century of real food prices declining by an average of 0.7 percent per year. A number of factors are driving fundamental resource scarcity in agriculture and food on both the demand side and the supply side. These Colorado-Ag-Food-Innovation-Cluster-CSU-Nov-2014-FULL-REPORT-6 scarcity factors can be interp-eted as imperatives—or, conversely, as opportunities—for innovation.Agricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovatAgricultural Value Chain along Colorado’s Front RangeGregory D. Graff, Annabelle Berklund Kathay RennelsNovember 2014 Colorado State UniversityInnovatGọi ngay
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