Enhancing agricultural innovation: how to go beyond the strengthening of research systems
Enhancing Agricultural Innovation came about as a result of an international workshop organized in June 2004 in Washington, DC by the World Bank’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department. One of the main conclusions of the 2004 workshop was that strengthened research systems will increase the availability of new knowledge and new technologies, but not necessarily the innovation capacity of the agricultural sector. An innovation system can be defined as a network of organizations, enterprises, and individuals demanding and supplying knowledge and bringing it into social and economic use. This book’s primary aim, therefore, is to focus on the largely unexplored operational aspects of the innovation systems concept and to explore its potential for agriculture. The book evaluates real-world innovation systems and assesses the usefulness of the concept in guiding investments to support knowledge-intensive, sustainable agriculture development for the Bank’s client countries and their collaborators. A typology of innovation systems is developed; strategies to guide investments for strengthening innovation capacity are drawn up; and concrete interventions options are identified. In its conclusions, the book emphasizes the importance of mechanisms for collaboration and interaction. Intermediary organizations, innovation councils, farmer organizations, and other means to strengthen collaboration are central to creating the exchange of knowledge and perspectives that will convert knowledge into valuable new social and economic products and services.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Washington, DC (SA) Wold Bank
2007
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| Subjects: | agricultural sector, agricultural development, agricultural innovation systems, family farms, productivity, case studies, |
| Online Access: | http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTARD/Resources/EnhancingAgInnovationebook.pdf |
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