CRISP
was part of the Central Research Team (CRT) constituted by the Research
Into Use (RIU) programme (http://www.researchintouse.com) and our
research led to development of new insights on putting new knowledge
into productive use. We explored the dimensions of rural innovation
management in this research.
The
research provided a framework to help analyse the sorts of innovation
management tasks that are becoming important. This framework
distinguishes four elements of innovation management: (i) Functions (ii)
Actions (iii) Tools and (iv) Organisational Format. This research on
the distribution of innovation management in the Asia projects suggests
that it is not technology access-related tasks alone that are important,
but the bundling of these with other activities, which include the
development of networks, advocacy for policy change, training and other
negotiated changes in practice and action. The implication for policy is
that ways of supporting this wider suite of innovation management tasks
would go a long way in helping make better use of agricultural research
in rural development.
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