EU agri-innovation policy: Two contending visions of the bio-economy

Critical Policy Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-65

  Levidow, Les ^a   Birch, Kean ^b   Papaioannou, Theo ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

agri innovation policy; agroecology; critical discourse analysis; cultural political economy; eco efficiency; European Technology Platforms (ETPs); Framework Programme 7; imaginaries; knowledge based bio economy (KBBE); life sciences; sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860994420     PISSN: 19460171     EISSN: 1946018X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2012.659881     Document Type: Article

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