3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
1. Develop a shared vision. The stakeholders’ vision should be designed for the locality
and region, with a long-term profitability and sustainability focus. Lay out and
communicate the project’s purpose, objectives, scope and scale.
2. Develop a feasibility plan. To involve and engage key stakeholders, highlight the
range of opportunities, benefits, and outputs of this alternative approach.
3. Set up a collaborative innovation network (COIN). An Internet networking platform is
key for bringing together the diversity of actors to interact, enabling them to participate,
ask questions, and access shared and distributed information.
4. Ensure initial investment. Financial resources are essential for scaling up new
initiatives, which can take the form of financing, investment, grants, and guarantees.
This requires administrative and political support from local, national and regional
entities.
5. Harmonize and clarify standards. Some existing standards may impede or prohibit
circular economy opportunities, such as employing certain waste streams for a variety
of uses.
In gaining domestic market experience and accruing performance gains from learning curves
throughout the renewable energy supply chain and value net, Luxembourg opens up additional
business opportunities to export this model to other regions. The global market for wind and
solar power systems is vast, enabling early movers to gain a competitive edge. In the case of
Luxembourg, the combination of large industrial players, a strong financial sector, and a
growing ICT sector affords the business community the wherewithal to create a comprehensive
package of Knowledge-as-a-Service combined with financing, expertise and products.
Perhaps one of the most desirous qualities of this Knowledge-as-a-Service transition “package”
is its numerous future proofing dimensions, some already noted. The transition to a smart
agricultural economy strengthens the resilience and anti-fragile attributes of the nation’s
energy system against disruptions, whether due to nature, technical failure, human error, or
terrorist attacks.
With all of these compelling reasons for pursuing a farm-based solar and wind “cash crop”
energy system, just how large is the actual potential in Luxembourg? Several Luxembourg
energy assessments have been performed in recent years. Energy production on agricultural
lands presents an important value added dynamic to a hard-pressed farm community.
Importing foreign energy and power resources could, perhaps, offer short-term, lower cost
services, but accrue no long-term benefits to the farming community. The decision to employ
solar and wind generating energy technologies on agricultural lands is, to some extent, a public
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