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Author-Name: Hall, Andy
Author-Email: hall@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social
	 Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology
Author-Name: Dijkman, Jeroen
Author-Email: j.dijkman@cgiar.org
Author-Workplace-Name: CGIAR
Title: Capacity development for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries:
	 Concepts, contexts, case studies and operational challenges of a systems perspective.
Abstract: There are divergent views on what capacity development might mean in
	 relation to agricultural biotechnology. The core of this debate is
	 whether this should involve the development of human capital and
	 research infrastructure, or whether it should encompass a wider range of
	 activities which also include developing the capacity to use knowledge
	 productively. This paper uses the innovation systems concept to shed
	 light on this discussion, arguing that it is innovation capacity rather
	 than science and technology capacity that has to be developed. The
	 context of deploying biotechnology in developing countries is
	 illustrated with an over view of Uganda and Ethiopia. The then presents
	 6 examples of different capacity development approaches. It concludes by
	 suggesting that policy needs to take a multidimensional approach to
	 capacity development in line with an innovation systems perspective. But
	 it also argues that policy needs to recognise the need to develop the
	 capacity of diversity of innovation systems and that a key part of the
	 capacity development task is to bring about the integration of these
	 different systems at strategic points in time. The paper concludes with
	 a tentative typology of the main types of agricultural innovation
	 systems that are likely to be important in developing countries.
Classification-JEL: O13, O2, O31, O38
Keywords: agriculture, Ethiopia, Uganda, innovation systems, biotechnology,
	 capacity building, innovation policy. 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2006
Number: 2006-003
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2006/wp2006-003.pdf
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