Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability?
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This document discusses how creativity, innovation, and research and development (R&D) can contribute to increased sustainability. It provides examples from agribusiness showing how smart technologies can improve efficiency and sustainability. However, it notes that integrated thinking across disciplines is important, as examples from wealthy nations cannot simply be copied. Business education should teach the wider context of technical innovations to understand their sustainability impacts. Overall, the document argues that integrated, multidisciplinary approaches to R&D have the best potential to produce sustainable outcomes.
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Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability?
- 2. Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability Introduction: • Creativity ≈ Sustainable Development • Economic System ≈ Sustainable • Examples from Agribusiness & Asia • Integrated Thinking 2 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 6. Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability Research Invention Smart Technologies Innovation Development that is More Sustainable e.g. agribusiness 6 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248) Is this what we are doing today, e.g. in agribusiness ?
- 7. 7 Fossils Fuels Feed the World Haber-Bosch process IFDC & Deli Chen, 2015) Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 8. Sustainability: Illusion or Elusive? 8 02/11/2017 Togo_phosphates_mining_wikimedia-e1440317600905-1024x622.jpg (1024×622) http://www.phosphorusfutures.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Togo_phosphates_mining_wikimedia-e1440317600905-1024x622.jpg 1/1 02/11/2017 efficiencyRewards.jpg(510×188) Oil à N fertilizer + Mined Phosphate à P fertilizer + Fossil and Surface Water _________________________ = Agriculture & Food (how can it work??) Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 10. 10 Q. What Changed in the Modern Era? A. Technology Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 11. Q. What Changed? A. Technology (Sachs, 2015) 11 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 17. Unsustainable Ideals e.g. Pensions 17 02/11/2017 state-pensions.jpg (960×720) Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248) So Modernization that copies is not sustainable, but there are more responsible examples also e.g. agribusiness
- 18. Smart Sustainable Business 18 Let me now return to the example of agribusiness and talk a little about the application of innovations in smart agribusiness Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 19. Smart Sustainable Agribusiness 02/11/2017 Crop-Health-832x400.png (832×400) https://geospatialmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/14184915/Crop-Health-832x400.png 1/1 19 02/11/2017 Drones-in-Agriculture-1080x600.jpg (1080×600) http://www.droneomega.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Drones-in-Agriculture-1080x600.jpg 1/1 02/11/2017 greenstar_2630_display_r4d002657_large_3f552aea29e391bae3bcfa991974a91485d785d4.jpg (1365×768) • satellite imaging to 30 cm2 • drones spot & spray weeds • yield determines fertilizer- & reduces excess • photosynthesis tracked • climate stress identified • tractor GPS, spot markets • integrated farm & business • focussed weather forecasts • in-time inputs Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 20. Smart Sustainable Agribusiness 02/11/2017 5388910-3x2-940x627.jpg (940×627) http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5388910-3x2-940x627.jpg 1/1 20 cow_electronic.jpg (400×410) Livestock : • smartphones & scanners read tags • traceable electronic tags • origin & history of animal • what it ate, what farm, what paddock • processing quality & safety • good animal welfare, halal, kosher • no hormones, antibiotics, vaccines • premium product & profit • printed detail on supermarket meat cut Just in time for Thanksgiving dinner: traceable turkeys in time for Thanksgiving er: traceable turkeys AP Top News Sports Entertainment Explore Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 24. Smart Sustainable Agribusiness Applicability to Asia? • World bank on smart technologies: ‘promote greater inclusion in the broader economy, raise efficiency by complementing other production factors, and foster innovation by dramatically reducing transaction costs’ • Kerala fishers mobile phones: income up, volatility & waste down • Input suppliers, crop insurers, weather forecasts, markets linked 24 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 25. Smart Sustainable Agribusiness Applicability to Asia? • World bank on smart technologies: ‘promote greater inclusion in the broader economy, raise efficiency by complementing other production factors, and foster innovation by dramatically reducing transaction costs’ • Kerala fishers mobile phones: income up, volatility & waste down • Input suppliers, crop insurers, weather forecasts, markets linked • drought insurance for pastoralists’ livestock 25 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 26. Smart Sustainable Agribusiness Applicability to Asia? • World bank on smart technologies: ‘promote greater inclusion in the broader economy, raise efficiency by complementing other production factors, and foster innovation by dramatically reducing transaction costs’ • Kerala fishers mobile phones: income up, volatility & waste down • Input suppliers, crop insurers, weather forecasts, markets linked • drought insurance for pastoralists’ livestock • market transparency, productivity, logistics efficiency The way things are used in new situations differs from wealthy nations 26 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 27. Digital Tools applied to Agriculture 27 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248) Differ from OECD nations: • Technologies used differ • Functions technologies used for differ
- 29. Asia’s Agribusiness is Critical to the World’s Food Supply 29 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248) • Asia is the most populous part of the globe • Asia has huge numbers of small farmers • Assuming large farms solve problems is naïve • Production potential small > large farms • Agribusiness is more than farming We need to think wisely; to integrate all knowledge Integrated thinking
- 30. Need Integrated Thinking in Smart Sustainable Agribusiness For Global Food Production: • Increasing Population + Increasing Wealth-induced Food Preferences = Need to Double Food Output by 2050 • Agribusiness + 2 Billion Small Farmers = Sufficient Food Today • Large agribusiness – Small Farmers = Billions of Displaced Mouths to Feed + Migration especially if less Climate-change Adaptive Research = Less Reliable and Less Total Food • Need: More Healthy Food from Less Land using Less Fossil Fuels and Fertilizers and Less Water But there are barriers to integrated thinking 30 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 31. 31 Integrated Thinking Being Aware of Our Window View: - We ‘know’ automatically from what we see - We see what others do in similar cases - We apply intellectual constructs we know This is not integrating all knowledge Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 32. Our Window is not Integrated, it is a Partial View(World Dev’t Report, 2015) 32 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 33. Automatic thinking is not Integrated Thinking(World Dev’t Report, 2015) 33 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 34. Social thinking is not Integrated Thinking(World Dev’t Report, 2015) 34 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 35. Social thinking is not Integrated Thinking(World Dev’t Report, 2015) 35 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 36. Mental models are not Integrated Thinking(World Dev’t Report, 2015) 36 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 37. Mental models are not Integrated Thinking(World Dev’t Report, 2015) 37 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 38. Integrating Our Thinking Smart, Innovative, Sustainable? 38 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248) All in the SDGs
- 39. Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability 39 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 40. Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability 40 Lessons Learned Falvey (2011): o technical research alone produced outcomes of varying sustainability o significant changes to the environment were less sustainable o research, education & development produce high rates of return o integrated understanding à sustainable outcomes Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 41. Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability 41 • Sustainability is an ideal • We seek to make business more sustainable • Each invention that is created and innovated needs attention • Examples at national level are not for copying • Each situation, each nation is different • Agribusiness examples indicate smart technology helps So, what else? Business education ? Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 42. Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability 42 Thaksin University: • research international PhD in sustainable development • spans all faculties • included sustainable university finances and cultural differences across ASEAN businesses Business education ? Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 43. Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability 43 Thaksin University: • research international PhD in sustainable development • spans all faculties • included sustainable university finances and cultural differences across ASEAN businesses Business Education: • fundamentals, theories, and processes of business • fundamentals = understanding of history, culture, science • agribusiness, technology only short-term benefits • relative sustainability is the role of the educated professional Business education ? Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 44. Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability 44 Thaksin University: • research international PhD in sustainable development • spans all faculties • included sustainable university finances and cultural differences across ASEAN businesses Business Education: • fundamentals, theories, and processes of business • fundamentals = understanding of history, culture, science • agribusiness, technology only short-term benefits • relative sustainability is the role of the educated professional Business education is understanding how technical innovations fit into the wider context of life and the environment Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 45. Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability Conclusion: • Creativity ≈ Sustainable Development • Economic System ≈ Sustainable • Examples from Agribusiness & Asia • Integrated Thinking à Most Sustainable Outcomes 45 Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)
- 46. Creativity and Innovation for Smart Societies & Sustainable Development = Smart R&D for Increased Sustainability 46 Thank you Tsuseal1.jpg (147×248)