Variety presentation 2012: in search of innovations

What is innovation? Van Dale’s Dutch Dictionary is brief. Innovation is simply a synonym to introducing a novelty. The usual run of things for the Dutch potato breeders, you would say. Certainly, if you consider the full trays of new varieties and numbers that were being admired at the variety presentations in Emmeloord at the beginning of November. But does it stop there? How about breeding techniques, innovations in the market? Views and experiences where innovations are concerned sometimes differ a lot, as became clear during our search for novelties with the companies participating in the show.