Abstract
Abstract Multifunctional agriculture holds several potentials for applying new technologies and innovative processes to reduce its environmental impact in line with the European Green Deal. Though, new cooperation concepts are a sufficient tool to enhance these potentials, using interdisciplinary and cross-border approaches. Hence, Regional Innovation Strategies on Smart Specialization (RIS3) can play a key role on political level to foster regional innovation development on agriculture in rural areas. By analysing Smart Specialization priority areas, potential crossovers between this innovation policy and actual implementation in practice can be deduced for cross-border cooperation approaches. Thus, the conducted research offers a comparison of priorities for German regions involved into the RUBIN program as use cases, supporting rural and less developed regions. Through these introduced use cases and strategy analysis, the inductive and deductive research offers a cross-border cooperation concept for legume food production, exploiting spillover effects to other priorities related to multifunctional agriculture. The core element of the concept is the introduction of knowledge hubs with an interdisciplinary view to enhance and apply innovation potentials in line with RIS3, which create positive effects on the environmental impact from the start with legume as raw materials until an improvement of its product portfolio for consumption at the end.
Highlights
The European Green Deal is setting the scene for the green transition of European society in various fields
A comparison matrix is provided for the selected priorities of affected German regions in the present use case for multifunctional agriculture co-creation through cooperation
The actual cooperation concept framework illustrates the interactions between actors on a cross-border basis and how they affect RIS3 as well as enhances potentials for multifunctional agriculture, using the use case for legume food production. 3.1
Summary
The European Green Deal is setting the scene for the green transition of European society in various fields. On core pillar of the initiatives is the Farm to Fork Strategy to support the European food system and enable a fair, healthy and environmental-friendly agricultural sector [1]. This objective is congruent to the UN Sustainable Development Goal No 12 [2]. The interdependencies to the regional integration of Smart Specialization as innovation policy to identify potentials for regional innovation achievements for transformation and sustainable growth become significant to be analysed in this matter [3]. Regional Innovation Strategies on Smart Specialization (RIS3) were introduced as innovation policies by the European Commission to foster regional strength and competitiveness [4]. After expiration of the funding period 2014–2020, European regions are Environmental and Climate Technologies
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