Heterogeneity of Agricultural Biogas Plants in France: A Sectoral System of Innovation Perspective

Alexandre Berthe (), Pascal Grouiez and Mathilde Fautras ()
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Alexandre Berthe: UR2 - Université de Rennes 2, LIRIS - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en innovations sociétales - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2
Mathilde Fautras: Department of Geosciences - Earth Sciences [Fribourg] - UNIFR - Université de Fribourg = University of Fribourg, LADYSS - Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPCité - Université Paris Cité

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Abstract: Literature on biogas production mainly studies the outputs of production or the technical dimension of its organization. We argue that there is a need to study this process in a more institutional political economy perspective to understand the variety of biogas plants' organizational models. We draw on the sectoral system of innovation perspective (SSIP) to analyze strategies of farmers adopting such an innovation in the agricultural sector. We mobilize data from semi-structured interviews with farmers and institutional stakeholders in France. We highlight a process of heterogenization of agricultural biogas plants, which results from a conflictual but lasting process of new technology appropriation by actors with various strategies within and outside the agricultural sector. We identify four different agricultural biogas production models: internalization and symbiosis, cereal grower using BP in injection, small group of farmers, partial outsourcing, and generic technology. We also discuss the possibility of the emergence of a new one: agricultural cooperative-investors joint projects.

Keywords: Sectoral Systems of Innovation and Production; Organizational Models; Energetic Transition; Agricultural Biogas Production; Farmers’ Strategies; Meth’InTer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-02-01
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Published in Journal of Innovation Economics & Management, 2022, 2022/2 (38), pp.11-34. ⟨10.3917/jie.pr1.0116⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/jie.pr1.0116

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