Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Hall, Andy
Author-Email: andy.hall@innovationstudies.org
Author-Workplace-Name: LINK, and The Open University
Title: Putting agricultural research into use: Lessons from contested visions of 
	 innovation
Abstract: This paper is a synthesis of research undertaken as part of the Research 
	 Into Use programme (RIU) to explore the question of how agricultural 
	 research can be used more effectively to improve agricultural production 
	 and farmers' livelihoods in developing countries. Many of the challenges 
	 the programme encountered were a result of contested visions of the way 
	 agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests 
	 a number of novel entry points for projects promoting research into use. 
	 However, it also argues that the effectiveness of RIU was undermined by 
	 its failure to productively manage contested visions of research and 
	 innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors 
	 and other international champions of the dominant view on agricultural 
	 research and development.
Classification-JEL: L26, L31, L33, N55, N57, O13, O19, O21, O22, O32, O33, O53,
	 O55, Q13, Q16
Keywords: Research Into Use, Innovation, Innovation Systems, Innovation Management,
	 Institutional Change, Agricultural Research, Development Policy,
	 South Asia, Africa
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2011
Number: 2011-076
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2011/wp2011-076.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2011076