Rural Innovation Systems

Research into use : investigating the relationship between agricultural research and innovation

Hall, Andy and Dijkman, Jeroen and Sulaiman V., Rasheed | 2010
  • Author(s): Hall, Andy and Dijkman, Jeroen and Sulaiman V., Rasheed
  • Publisher: United nations university (UNU). Maastricht economic and social research and training centre on innovation and technology (MERIT)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural research, agricultural innovations, development strategies
This paper sets out an analytical framework for doing research on the question of how to use agricultural research for innovation and impact. Its focus is the Research Into Use programme sponsored by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).

Concepts and guidelines for diagnostic assessments of agricultural innovation capacity

Hall, Andy and Mytelka, Lynn and Oyeyinka, Banji | 2006
  • Author(s): Hall, Andy and Mytelka, Lynn and Oyeyinka, Banji
  • Publisher: United nations university (UNU). Maastricht economic and social research and training centre on innovation and technology (MERIT)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural innovations, public sector, private sector, capacity building, institution building, social institutions, developed countries
The innovation systems concept is used to lay out a conceptual framework for diagnostic assessments of agricultural innovation capacity. Typological tools for the qualitative exploration of innovation capacity are included.

Innovation systems : implications for agricultural policy and practice

Hall, Andy and Mytelka, Lynn and Oyeyinka, Banji | 2005
  • Author(s): Hall, Andy and Mytelka, Lynn and Oyeyinka, Banji
  • Publisher: Institutional learning and change (ILAC)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural policy, agricultural research, development strategies, innovations, co-operation between organizations, capacity building
New development policies and practices must be partnership-based and learning-oriented. Research organizations need to expand their role to one of broker, bridge and catalyst within the wider innovation system.

New methods and old institutions : the 'systems context' of farmer participatory research in national agricultural research systems : the case of Uganda

Hall, Andrew and Nahdy, Silim | 1999
  • Author(s): Hall, Andrew and Nahdy, Silim
  • Publisher: ODI
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural research, on-farm research, uganda
So far, advocacy of participation in Ugandan agricultural research is too coercive. The problems are systemic and only structural change within agricultural research would enable more client-focused activities.

Reframing technical change : livestock fodder scarcity revisited as innovation capacity scarcity

Hall, Andy and Sulaiman, Rasheed and Bezkorowajnyj, Peter | 2008
  • Author(s): Hall, Andy and Sulaiman, Rasheed and Bezkorowajnyj, Peter
  • Publisher: United nations university (UNU). Maastricht economic and social research and training centre on innovation and technology (MERIT)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: animal feed, agricultural innovations, institution building, development strategies, popular participation, agricultural research, south asia, india
A framework for exploring fodder innovation capacity was developed to take into consideration the patterns of interaction needed for innovation and the policy and institutional settings needed to enable these processes.
 

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