Knowledge development, for vertical and horizontal collaboration
Knowledge and innovation are key to sustainable and profitable Swedish food production. SLU Competence Center for Advisory Services contributes with expert knowledge and support for business development through expertise and process management.
Large financial sums are spent by both entrepreneurs and the government on financing the development and skills of counceling. SLU Competence Center for Advisory Services contributes to strengthening counceling and collaboration with the aim of creating a more effective knowledge and innovation system in these respects.
We see great potential in developing collaboration throughout the value chain as well as within policy and the political system. We fill a central role in the agricultural knowledge and innovation system (AKIS) in Sweden and complement existing actors and research environments that develop new knowledge.
We are working with integrative and new working methods to supply knowledge to the sector, for example how scientific knowledge is integrated into decision-making processes. We wish to deepen cooperation with the new Swedish national knowledge hubs in order to support the development of new working methods and counceling concepts. We see a continued need for method development in this area.
We also act to strengthen collaboration and knowledge development from a regional perspective, including collaboration with nature-based upper secondary schools and other regional and local actors.