Clark, William C. | 2007
- Author(s): Clark, William C.
- Publisher: Harvard university
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural innovations, research and development, research centres, institutional infrastructure
In his presentation William C. Clarke talks about the barriers to innovation: mutual incomprehension; fragmented knowledge systems; and static, inflexible processes confronted by dynamic problems.
Classen, L. | 2005
- Author(s): Classen, L.
- Publisher:
- Pages: 357--370
- Keywords: agricultural research, popular participation, innovations, evaluation research, central america, honduras
A discussion of the implications of the highly diverse livelihood contexts of asset-poor farmers in the development of reliable impact assessment frameworks to measure innovation sustainability, using a case from north-central Honduras.
Cooke, Phil and Memedovic, Olga | 2006
- Author(s): Cooke, Phil and Memedovic, Olga
- Publisher: United nations industrial development organization (UNIDO)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: institutional infrastructure, innovations, regional development, information management, financial institutions
Examines the role of support institutions in knowledge production and innovation, focusing on a regional level. These institutions could help meet knowledge, skills, and financial needs markets fail to provide.
Coulon, Fabrice | 2005
- Author(s): Coulon, Fabrice
- Publisher: Lund university
- Pages: --
- Keywords: development research, innovations, sociology, information networks
A combination of case study and social network analysis could help place equal emphasis on change in the relationships between interacting units, and change within units.
Crane, Todd A. | 2013
- Author(s): Crane, Todd A.
- Publisher: Oxfam America
- Pages: --
- Keywords: climatic change, self-help, agricultural innovations, africa
Rather than focusing exclusively on the development and dissemination of technical adaptation practices, development efforts should also emphasize the development of rural peoples’ adaptive capacities, their abilities to undertake effective innovations in the absence of external intervention.