social inclusion. Innovation systems thinking, particularly in renewable natural resource, agriculture and rural development …, informs that the dominant paradigm of impact assessment should be complemented by social innovation assessment, providing … learning and innovations. Based on case studies of a series of projects implemented in India and Nepal under DFID's 11-year …

been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …

knowledge re-use, adaptation and embedment in many emerging and developing countries involving efforts at local innovation, is … in many ways similar to, and reminiscent of the development of the many innovation policy tools in European countries and … regions. The first policy challenge, we refer to as "recherche sans frontières"; the second one as "innovation for local …

technological innovation among firms in clean and green energy technologies. …

In this paper we offer a discussion of eco-innovation and methods for measuring it. Eco-innovation is a new concept of … sector. We argue that eco-innovation research and data collection should not be limited to such environmentally motivated … should be broadened to include innovation in or oriented towards resource use, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas reduction …

, UK, December 2007. Its focus is the challenge of strengthening agricultural innovation systems. The paper prefaces this … discussion by reflecting on an apparent paradox. While agricultural innovation has never been better studied and understood, many … of our ideas about innovation have failed to fundamentally change the institutional and policy setting of public and …