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)
TWO NEW DISCUSSION PAPERS FROM CRISP
CRISP is pleased to announce the publication of two new discussion papers, available for download. Click here to download.
The first, titled “Organised Retailing of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables : Is it helping producers”, authored by Rasheed Sulaiman V, N. J Kalaivani and Jatin Handoo, explores the procurement operations of organized corporate retailers in one of the major vegetable growing clusters in Andhra Pradesh, India and its impact on producers.
The second, titled “Tacit Knowledge and Innovation Capacity: Evidence from the Indian Livestock Sector”, authored by Rasheed Sulaiman V., Laxmi Thummuru, Andy Hall and Jeroen Dijkman. This paper explores the role of tacit knowledge in livestock sector innovation capacity though the case of Visakha Dairy, a producer-owned milk marketing company in India that used tacit knowledge to innovate around challenges.
CRISP researchers recently participated in the following events :
REACHING RURAL WOMEN- CD Launch, 14 October, 2009, New Delhi:
This launch meeting was jointly organized by CRISP, Cirrus Management Services Pvt Limited and the Glasgow Caledonian University to promote the new approach to designing programmes for rural women. The resource CD contains the details of a new consultative process for designing demand-led programmes for rural women. For copies of the CD, kindly contact crispindia@gmail.com or the contents of this CD could also be accessesed at www.reachingruralwomen.org.
South Asia Rural Innovation Capacity Benchmarking Workshop, 19-20 August, 2009, New Delhi
This workshop was organized jointly by the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, CRISP and LINK (Learning, INnnovation, Knowledge). The workshop was designed as a policy dialogue on implications for capacity benchmarking if South Asian countries wanted to move from science and technology policy to innovation policy with the specific goals of rural development. The workshop brought together senior officials within S&T organisations engaged in science, technology and innovation planning, and academics/ researchers/ practitioners involved in rural innovation in South Asian countries. For proceedings of this workshop click here.
First meeting of the Fodder Innovation Policy Working Group (FIPWG), 24 February 2009, NDDB, Anand
CRISP in collaboration with the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) organised the first meeting of the FIPWG of the Fodder Innovation Project (www.fodderinnovation.org) at Anand. This meeting was hosted by the NDDB. This meeting was chaired by Dr. Amrita Patel, Chairman, NDDB. The purpose of the meeting was to share the findings and insights emerging from the project thus far and obtain comments on the relevance and effectiveness of its approach. The project also sought contributions to the type of questions this research asks and assistance in promoting its findings. A select group of 30 participants representing a diverse mix of organisations ranging from the central Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry department, NDDB, the Planning Commission, National Seeds Corporation, ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research), the cooperative milk unions and various NGOs attended this meeting.
FAO-Government of India National Medium Term Priority Framework Meeting, 8-12 December 2008, New Delhi.
Dr. Rasheed Sulaiman V developed the sector paper on “Knowledge Generation and Management” for the FAO-Government of India workshop for preparing the National Medium Term Priority Framework held at New Delhi. This paper identifies opportunities for meaningful intervention by international developmental agencies based on identification of weaknesses, gaps and hurdles faced by the sector. The paper argues that this sector is affected by two major weaknesses. Firstly, those related to institutional issues or its ways of working and secondly, those related to lack of expertise, manpower and finances. The paper identifies capacity development for knowledge generation and management as the most appropriate role international development agencies could play in the Indian context. These include: enhancing capacity to deal with new science and technologies, promoting new ways of working and supporting institutional and policy changes.
IFPRI Conference on advancing agriculture in developing countries through knowledge and Innovation, 7-9 April 2008, Addis Ababa
In one of the session on Knowledge, Innovation, Agricultural Extension and Education, Dr. Rasheed Sulaiman V, presented a paper on Extension from an Innovation Systems Perspective.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SAIC-NAARM Regional Workshop on Research Extension Linkages for Effective Delivery & Agricultural Technologies, NAARM, Hyderabad(20-22 November 2006)
National Workshop on Indian Agriculture Crisis & Ways Forward, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi( 6 November 2006.)
4th GLOBELICS International Conference, Trivandrum (4 - 7 October 2006)
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