摘要：The development of any new industry faces a number of barriers. The interest in developing a nutraceutical/functional food industry in Alberta needs to focus on a range of issues associated with the ability to develop the financing, management and knowledge base to permit the development of such an industry. Others, however, have developed new industries where none existed before, and the purpose of this case study is to a) improve understanding of the process of developing a new industry, and b) attempt to draw lessons from the experience of new industry development elsewhere. This study presents a review of literature concerning the development of new industry, and focuses on the roles best performed by public and private agencies in fostering new industries, particularly associated with the agriculture and agri-food sector. Main conclusions are that primary elements of infant industry development are · Learning-by-doing, · R&D, and · innovation and spillovers.
