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An Innovative Ambidexterity Typology of Filipino Agripreneurs and Its Implications for Regional Development Policies


Innovative behavior of agripreneurs can be classified as exploitative (i.e, slow and incremental), exploratory (i.e., fast and radical), or ambidextrous (i.e., in between exploitative and exploratory). This policy brief presents a typology of Filipino agripreneurs based on four dimensions of innovative ambidexterity, namely: product innovation, market competition, technology innovation, and international market development. A total of 174 Filipino agripreneurs from different administrative regions in the Philippines who were included in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Adult Population Surveys (GEM APS) from years 2013 to 2015 comprised the sample of this study. Two major clusters were initially generated, but after further sub-clustering, the following classifications of Filipino agripreneurs emerged: (1) generally exploratory; (2) purely exploitative; and (3) mixed exploitative. A closer look on the data reveals that many of the highly exploratory agripreneurs came from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and Southern Mindanao. On the other hand, most of the mixed exploitative agripreneurs were from CALABARZON, Caraga, and MIMAROPA. It is recommended that in order for Philippine agripreneurship to be the sustainable, government policies and programs must seek to develop exploratory as well as ambidextrous behavior among agripreneurs by focusing on regional factors associated with innovative behavior, such as gross regional domestic product (GRDP), population, water infrastructure, typhoon occurrence, and unemployment rate.


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