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 …

two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population …