Mundança técnica e reestruturação da indústria agroalimentar na Europa - uma reflexão teórica-metodológica

Resumo

This article presents a critical appraisal of recent analyses of the technological and organisational determinants of innovation and new patterns of industrial competitiveness. In doing so it aims to throw light on the specific features influencing the reorganisation of the agrofood system. Established approaches in terms of the "filiere", spatial theories and those based on industrial groups are reinterpreted in the light of the tertiarisation of the agrofood system, and a new framework proposed for analysing the dynamic towards a global restructuring of agrofood.