High-value export-oriented agriculture is today considered as a means of integrating smallholders into the world … innovation plays a key role throughout the period, commercial and logistical innovation are of increasing strategic importance …

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … intermediates and innovation performance, which indicates that technology-gap is an important mediator of learning within value …