Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems
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This paper examines knowledge integration within EIP-AGRI Operational Groups (OGs) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, focusing on innovation brokers’ roles in facilitating co-creation between farmers, researchers and advisors. We studied four OGs through expert interviews and document analysis. Using communities of practice theory, we analysed broker practices, knowledge integration mechanisms and enabling conditions for co-creation. This study advances understanding of transdisciplinary approaches in Agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS) by investigating how institutionalized networks facilitate learning through CoP, offering insights into tacit knowledge brokerage within innovation frameworks.
Müller, O., & Riekötter, N. (2025). Learning to innovate. Innovation brokers and co-creation in EIP-Agri operational groups in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 1–23.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1389224X.2025.2526362