Why Research Partnerships Really Matter: Innovation Theory, Institutional Arrangements and Implications for Developing New Technology for the Poor

Sun, 08/31/2008 - 12:52 — Cristina Sette

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Authors:

Andrew Hall; Geoffrey Bockett; Sarah Taylor; M. V. K . Sivamohan; Normal Clark

Source:

World Development, Volume 29, Issue 5, Number 5, p.783-797 (2001)

URL:

files/private/Articles/Hall_Research_Partnership_matter.pdf

Keywords:

agriculture; development; ILAC Newsletter; India; Innovation; partnership; partnerships; policy

Abstract:

This paper explores the conceptual basis for existing and emergent institutional patterns in the context of partnership approaches to technology development. Drawing examples from recent studies of private enterprise activity in India smallholder horticultural, it suggests that agricultural innovation as a process involves a wider range of organizational types than the conventional policy focus on public sector research organizations would tend to suggest. It uses the concept of a ''national innovation systems'' to argue that a partnership approach is adopted as a core methodology for engaging science and technology development with the livelihood demands of the poor

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