Rural Innovation Systems

Learning to make change : developing innovation competence for recreating the African university of the 21st century

Kibwika, Paul | 2006
  • Author(s): Kibwika, Paul
  • Publisher: Author
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: universities and colleges, curriculum development, advisory services, sustainable development, educational reform, agricultural research, agricultural innovations, africa south of sahara, uganda
This thesis describes an experiment in transforming learning, research and consultancy at Makerere University to make it more innovative, and more able to influence wider processes of change in society.

Innovation systems and development : the journey of a beleaguered Nile perch fishery in Uganda

Kiggundu, Rose Nantongo | 2006
  • Author(s): Kiggundu, Rose Nantongo
  • Publisher: Maastricht economic and social research and training centre on innovation and technology (UNU-MERIT)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: fisheries, innovations, exports, market access, food hygiene, laws and regulations, uganda, eu
Four innovation sub-systems affected the innovation activities of Uganda's fish processing and exporting firms in response to the imposition of sanitary standards and their enforcement by the EU.

Beyond knowledge brokerage : an exploratory study of innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya

Kilelu, Catherine | 2011
  • Author(s): Kilelu, Catherine
  • Publisher: Wageningen university
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural innovations, institution building, development strategies
Several organisations with an intermediary role in Kenya's agriculture fulfill functions beyond distribution of knowledge and putting it into use, e.g. fostering integration and interaction among actors in innovation networks and working on technological, organisational and institutional innovation.

Beyond knowledge brokerage : an exploratory study of innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya

Kilelu, Catherine W. | 2011
  • Author(s): Kilelu, Catherine W.
  • Publisher: Research into results]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: innovations, development strategies, institution building, africa
Several organisations with an intermediary role in Kenya's agriculture fulfill functions beyond distribution of knowledge and putting it into use, e.g. fostering integration and interaction among actors in innovation networks and working on technological, organisational and institutional innovation.

Gender and agricultural innovation : revisiting the debate through an innovation system perspective

Kingiri, Ann | 2010
  • Author(s): Kingiri, Ann
  • Publisher: NR international]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: gender, agricultural policy, rural development, innovations, development planning, women
This paper is an attempt to bring together two major streams of debate and policy analysis: gender issues and how they relate to achieving both equity and efficiency goals; and, innovation in agriculture and the way planning and policy is starting to view this as a multidimensional process.
 

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