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 …

agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …

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 developing countries, innovation is to a large extent a matter of adoption of advanced technologies but also of …

The core of this paper consists of two case studies of 'grassroots' innovation led by innovative smallholder farmers in … purposes of the study was to explore questions about the development of innovation indicators that might support policy and … management concerned with this kind of innovation. The case studies are therefore located in the context of a review of existing …

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 …

The innovation systems approach has proven useful in explaining the reasons behind varying economic performance in … developing countries. The systemic understanding of the innovation process, which pays attention to the knowledge flow among … interactive actors, serves as a useful 'focusing device' for elaborating effective policy to accelerate the innovation process and …