Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Mytelka, Lynn K.
Author-Email: mytelka@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Author-Name: Goertzen, Haeli
Author-Email: goertzen@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Learning, Innovation And Cluster Growth: A Study of Two Inherited Organizations in the Niagara Peninsula Wine Cluster
Abstract:  This paper applies an innovation system framework to analyze the development of a natural resource-based system of innovation within the wine
	 cluster in the Niagara Peninsula in Canada. A variety of policies shape the parameters (financial, fiscal, legal) within which opportunities for
	 innovation open or are constrained and choices are made. Two of these have led to inherited organizations that have created contradictory incentives 	 for innovation and growth in the cluster. On the input side, it is often said that great wines are 'grown in the vineyard' and the demand for
	 innovation in the grape sector, thus depends upon the relationship between clients, in this case, vintners and their suppliers of grapes. That
	 relationship is a learned one and the interactions within the Ontario Grape Growers Marketing Board (OGGMB), now the Ontario Grape Growers (OGG)
	 have had a powerful, and not always positive, impact on the innovation process. With regard to outputs, policies affecting the sale and distribution
	 of wine as administered through the Liquor Control Board of Ontario have created a 'glass ceiling' that is a disincentive for growth and innovation
	 among small wineries.
Keywords:  innovations, technological change, institutions, wine, vineyards, grape growers, niagara, canada
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2004
Number: 2004-15
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2004-15.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 334 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200415