Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?
Klerkx, Laurens, Hall, Andy and Leeuwis, Cees (2009). Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?. UNU-MERIT.
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Sub-type Working paper Author Klerkx, Laurens
Hall, Andy
Leeuwis, CeesTitle Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer? Publication Date 2009 Place of Publication Maastricht Publisher UNU-MERIT Pages 47 Abstract This paper examines the role of innovation brokers in stimulating innovation system interaction and innovation capacity building, and illustrates this by taking the case of Dutch agriculture as an example. Subsequently, it reflects upon the potential role of innovation brokers in developing countries’ agriculture. It concludes that innovation brokerage roles are likely to become relevant in emerging economies and that public or donor investment in innovation brokerage may be needed to overcome inherent tensions regarding the neutrality and funding of such players in the innovation system. The Dutch experience suggests that innovation brokers need to be contextually embedded, and are unlikely to become effective through a centrally-imposed design. Hence, we conclude that stimulating their emergence requires a policy that supports institutional learning and experimentation. In the evaluation of such experiments, it is important to note that innovation brokers tend to play intangible roles that are not easily captured through conventional indicators. Journal Codes: N54, 013, 031, Q13, Q16, Q18 UNU Topics of Focus Agriculture Keyword Agriculture
Developing countries
The Netherlands
Innovation broker
Neutrality
Institutional learning
Context-specific
Innovation systems
Capacity strengthening
Agricultural extensionCopyright Holder UNU-MERIT Copyright Year 2009 Copyright type Creative commons ISSN 18719872 -
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