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An explorative study of the establishing of the Kitchen Incubator CPH Food Space

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Term

4. term

Education

Publication year

2016

Submitted on

2016-06-02

Pages

88 pages

Abstract

Der er gennem de senere år sket en stigning i antallet af små fødevarer virksomheder I København, hvilket skaber en nysgerrighed omkring hvad mulighederne er for fremtidige mad entreprenører i København. Denne stigning i antallet af små fødevarevirksomheder har, blandt andre mad initiativer i København, skabt en opmærksomhed omkring fødevaresektoren værende et marked for vækst. Dette har medført at København Kommune, for at sikre denne positive udvikling, er villig til at støtte initiativer der fremmer mad entreprenører. Dette er et explorativt speciale, med fokus på etableringsfasen af et af de støttede initiativer; køkken inkubatoren CPH Food Space, et private-public støttet projekt. Undersøgelsen tager udgangspunkt i den akademiske litteratur omkring væksthuse (business incubators) for at klarlægge om væksthuset med fokus på fødevarebranchen, også kaldet køkken inkubatorer, kan bidrage positivt til mulighederne for fremtidige mad entreprenører i København. For at studerer casen CPH Food Space var feltstudier fundet som en passende metode, da observationerne af etableringsfasen og interviews fra felten bidrog med en indsigt i processen som ikke ville være opnået med andre metoder. En analyse af de vigtigste interessenter blev foretaget såvel som en kortlægning af innovative mad initiativer i Danmark. Analysen of kortlægningen udtrykte kompleksiteten i public-privat støttede projekter, derudover gav kortlægningen et billede af specialets scape. Det blev konkluderet at CPH Food Space var et initiativ med positiv indflydelse på mulighederne for kommeende mad entreprenører i København, endvidere blev det konkluderet at public-private støttede innovative mad initiativer kan være med at øge innovative fødevare miljøer.

In the recent years there has been an increase in small food business in Copenhagen, which awakes a curiosity of what the opportunities for the future food entrepreneurs of Copenhagen are. This increase of small food business has, amongst other food initiatives in Copenhagen, created awareness about food as a market of growth, which caused the Municipality of Copenhagen to support initiatives which fosters food entrepreneurs in order to secure this positive development. This thesis is an explorative study focusing on the establishing phase of one of these supported initiatives; the kitchen incubator CPH Food Space, a public-private funded project. The research takes a starting point in the literature of business incubators in order to clarify whether a business incubator aimed at the food sector, also named a kitchen incubator, can contribute positive to the opportunities of the future food entrepreneurs of Copenhagen. Further field research was the method found suited for studying the case while observation of the establishment of CPH Food Space and field interviews gave an insight knowledge not gain otherwise. A stakeholder analysis, of the most important stakeholder appearing in the establishing phase, was conducted as well as a mapping of the scape of food and innovation of Denmark. The analysis and the mapping provided a picture of the complexity of public-private initiative and the mapping clarified the scape of the thesis. CPH Food Space was found to be an initiative to have a positive impact on the opportunities of future food entrepreneurs of Copenhagen and creating public-private food innovation initiatives could contribute the increase of innovative food environments.

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