Title: Missing the target : lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia

Authors: Sulaiman V., Rasheed and Hall, Andy and Vamsidhar Reddy, T.S.

Place: Maastricht

Publisher: United nations university (UNU). Maastricht economic and social research institute on innovation and technology (MERIT)

Year: 2011

Journal: UNU-MERIT working paper series

Volume: 2011-050

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Subject: Rural Innovation Systems

Keywords: agricultural innovations, development strategies, agricultural research, development policy, asia

Abstract: The Research Into Use (RIU) programme in Asia missed its target, as it failed to make explicit efforts to address policy and institutional change, despite its innovation systems rhetoric. This severely restricted its ability to achieve wide-scale social and economic impact.

URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2011/wp2011-050.pdf

Document type: E-article