Drawing on a social practice approach and network diagrams, this article explores the good practices of three food hub typologies. Empirically, this study draws from a collection of ‘good practices’ gathered for the Short Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN) EU-funded H2020 project. Furthermore, the strategic networks of actors involved in these collaborative entities is often overlooked. Although food hubs offer many advantages to both producers and consumers, they remain a recognisably neglected research topic in Europe. They are essentially multi-actor institutions, involving horizontal collaboration between producers and vertical collaborations up and down the food chain, involving all actors required to bring food products from producers to consumers. The proposed framework is expected to be utilized for predicting technological change and deriving promising technologies for establishing technology roadmaps in logistics companies.įood hubs are collaborative entities that strategically manage the assemblage, delivery, and promotion of food from a range of local food producers.
By using the Word2Vec algorithm, we will investigate the patent search formula that reflects the trend, the prediction of changes in logistics technology through LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) clustering of patent data, and the derivation of vacant technology by experimental methods. This paper aims to propose a new framework for the extension to the stage for establishing a technology roadmap.
Previous research mainly relied on the expert interview method, and there was also a patent analysis study based on topic modeling, but only to grasp technology trends. The purpose of this study is to identify opportunities and areas for technology development through patent data in establishing technology strategies. In addition, to enable the implementation of the technology strategy, it is necessary to detect the change in technology and search for the technology that is expected to have a practical development effect. A technology strategy is essential for digitization, and identifying opportunities and threats of technology development through technology trend exploration is important for technology strategy. For players in the logistics industry, digitization has become an unavoidable situation to achieve survival and sustainable competitiveness. The rapid advancement of digital technologies has fundamentally changed the competitive dynamics of the logistics industry.
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