The Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy is a non-profit research organization established in March 2004 to promote research in the area of innovation policy in relation to agriculture and rural development. The founding members of CRISP have been in the forefront of research on innovation policy internationally. This coalition of science policy researchers saw a need for a more holistic approach to innovation policy and CRISP was established mainly to promote policy relevant research on rural innovation.
CRISP is currently hosting the South Asia Rural Innovation Policy Studies Hub of LINK. LINK (Learning INnovationand Knowledge) is an initiative of UNU-MERIT (www.merit.unu.edu). Its goal is to advance the understanding of innovation for a New Rural Economy in developing countries through concepts, lessons and guidelines and by facilitating discussions amongst scholars, policymakers, development investors and practitioners dealing with rural development (www.innovationstudies.org)
CRISP researchers recently participated in the following events :
1) Seminar on Trade, Technology and the Impact of Globalisation-New dimensions in Indo-Canadian relations, IIM, Bangalore (30-31 March 2007)
Dr. Rajeswari Raina presented a paper on “Rural Innovation-Lessons for the State and Industry”. Her presentation focussed on the importance of rural innovation and the major lessons on promoting rural innovation that were drawn from a number of case studies undertaken during the last 3 years. The paper argues for a concerted effort by the state and the industry to promote rural innovation and make suggestions on how better they could contribute to this task.
2) Expert Workshop on Enhancing Agricultural Innovation Systems, The World Bank, Washington, DC (22-23 March 2007)
Dr.Rasheed Sulaiman V presented two papers; based on the two case studies he did for the UNU-MERIT/World Bank study that assessed the usefulness of the innovation systems concept in guiding investments to support knowledge-intensive, sustainable agriculture development for the Bank’s client countries and their collaborators. Recently, the report of this study has been published by the World Bank (World Bank, 2007, Enhancing Agricultural Innovation: How to go beyond strengthening of research systems, The World Bank, Washington D.C). The case studies from India were on vanilla and medicinal plants. The case studies analyses the nature of innovation challenge, the patterns of interaction among the major actors and the policy and institutional environment influencing innovation in these two sectors in India and suggests potential ways forward.
3) National Consultations on Agricultural Research and Extension, National
Knowledge Commission, New Delhi (15 January, 2007)
Rajeswari Raina and Rasheed Sulaiman V participated in the consultations on the
National Knowledge Commission (NKC) on Agricultural Research and Extension on 15
January 2007 at New Delhi. Their presentations focused on the need for institutional
reforms in research and extension and how innovation systems framework can potentially
assist in this task.
4) National Symposium on Rural Credit for Inclusive Growth, College of
Agricultural Banking, Reserve Bank of India, Pune (12-13 January 2007)
Dr. Rasheed Sulaiman V presented a paper "Extension services in India: Emerging
Challenges and Ways Forward" that argued for a broader mandate for extension and
wider partnerships to achieve this. Based on a synthesis of select cases from India, the
paper illustrates how agencies dealing with credit, extension and market have partnered
to promote rural innovation and discusses its implications for extension reform.
5) SAIC-NAARM Regional Workshop on Research Extension Linkages for Effective Delivery & Agricultural Technologies, NAARM, Hyderabad(20-22 November 2006)
6) National Workshop on Indian Agriculture Crisis & Ways Forward, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi( 6 November 2006.)
7) 4th GLOBELICS International Conference, Trivandrum (4 - 7 October 2006)
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