Rural Innovation Systems

The use of innovation systems in a technology development aid programme

Clark, Norman | 2013
  • Author(s): Clark, Norman
  • Publisher: CTA
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural innovations, technology transfer, project evaluation, development assistance
The RIU programme has been about how to use the notion of an Innovation System as a guiding metaphor for technology development for poor farmers. RIU has shown (a small scale initially) that given the right networks and environment, much valuable research can be put to use in the developing world.

Innovation systems, economic systems, complexity and development policy

Clark, Norman | 2010
  • Author(s): Clark, Norman
  • Publisher: NR international]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: innovations, development strategies, development models, economics
Taking Allen's attempts to build evolutionary models to aid in development policy processes as a starting point, the author shows that the innovation systems concept grounded in complex systems theory is an adequate tool in technology development and a device to ensure its long term sustainability.

Innovation systems, institutional change and the new knowledge market : implications for Third World agricultural development

Clark, Norman | 2002
  • Author(s): Clark, Norman
  • Publisher: The Open university
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural innovations, institutional infrastructure, rural development, institution building, agricultural research, africa south of sahara
This paper uses a simplified version of classical information theory to improve understanding of the dynamic potential of innovation systems in developing countries with a special focus on issues of agricultural poverty.

Putting research into use : a market failure approach

Clark, Norman and Maudlin, Ian | 2010
  • Author(s): Clark, Norman and Maudlin, Ian
  • Publisher: NR international]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: innovations, technology transfer, private sector, rural development, africa
The authors put forward a model of rural technology development in Africa that is evolutionary in focus, with a \"seeding\" approach somewhat akin to that of open systems behaviour, and complementary private sector development involving \"below the pyramid\" entrepreneurship and dynamical linkages.

Bovine vaccine development in East Africa : an innovation systems perspective

Clark, Norman and Smith, James and Hirvonen, Maija | 2005
  • Author(s): Clark, Norman and Smith, James and Hirvonen, Maija
  • Publisher: INNOGEN (ESRC centre for social and economic research on innovation in genomics)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: scientific research, vaccines, cattle, innovations, development strategies, africa south of sahara
The adoption of an innovation systems approach can add value to scientific research in both a cognitive and an applications sense.
 

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