van Hout, Boro, Mr. (2020) Cultured meat and its disruptive potential for the Dutch meat industry: How to deal with effects of disruption? Master thesis.
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Abstract
The Dutch meat industry is a lucrative industry which provides employment to over 12.000 people. However there are some issues with current methods of production such as: sustainability, health and safety, or growing ethical concerns. Cultured meat is a novel food product in development by a number of companies which could alleviate these issues. presently little is known about how a market introduction of cultured meat could affect existing stakeholders in the Dutch meat industry though. This and related issues are investigated through interviews with a variety of different experts/stakeholders including: Retailers of meat, cultured meat companies and partners, but also public sector actors. Results identify a number of factors that directly influence the disruptive potential of cultured meat. Additionally results show that there is a potential for stakeholders to make a transition towards cultured meat, although it’s not expected that disruption will take place on a large scale. Finally attention is spent on issues pertaining to what can be done to manage or stimulate effects of disruption. Some conclusions can be made based upon these obtained results, however a large amount of uncertainty still remains.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Economic Geography |
| Supervisor: | Ballas, D. |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2020 09:17 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2020 09:17 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3356 |
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