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Rural Innovation Systems

Challenges & innovations : e-newsletter / International center for tropical agriculture (CIAT)

| 2008- .
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: CIAT
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural research, research centres, serial publications, internet, latin america, colombia
This new quarterly e-newsletter \"Challenges & Innovations\" is intended to become CIAT's main communication channel for sharing news on the impact of research and related activities around the world.

RIU : an innovation system story : Research into use blog

| 2008-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Research into use (RIU)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural innovations, development strategies, agricultural research, technology transfer, information exchange
The Research into Use blog aims to share the experiences of the DFID funded RIU programme and create a space for discussing an innovation systems approach to up-scaling of agricultural technologies.

Outsourcing agricultural advisory services : [dossier]

| 2008-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Royal tropical institute (KIT)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural extension, private sector, public sector, credit, institution building, capacity building, africa south of sahara
\\qjThis dossier presents lessons learned on outsourcing agricultural advisory services to provide guidelines and direction for all kinds of organizations involved in demand-driven service provision to African smallholders.

Rural innovation systems : [dossier]

| 2008-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Royal tropical institute (KIT)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural innovations, agricultural development, rural development
This dossier provides: (1) an overview of current insights, practice, and policy on rural innovation systems (RIS); (2) the evolution of the RIS concept; and (3) an outline of KIT's RIS programme.

Impactscan : innovation policy impact assessment at regional level

| 2008-
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  • Publisher: Impactscan
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: innovations, private enterprises, development policy, project evaluation, europe
The project provides a method for evaluating the impact of regional innovation policies on regional innovation intermediaries and on enterprise innovation performance. It has been tested in 7 European regions.
 

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This information portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on Rural Innovation Systems (RIS).