DOI: 10.18167/dvn1/vmhtyl
title: Innovation lexicon

description: The DeSIRA (Development Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture) Initiative from the European Commission funds Research and Development projects seeking to bridge the gap between the research community and the formulation of policies to build resilient, sustainable and equitable agri-food systems in the Global South. These projects are accompanied by DeSIRA-LIFT (Leveraging the DeSIRA Initiative for the Transformation of Agri-Food Systems), which provides services to prove and improve their impact. In the context of the DeSIRA-LIFT initiative, we aim to mobilize text-mining methods to characterise the nature of the innovations developed by the DeSIRA projects via the documents produced at different stages of the projects. To enable characterising innovation from textual document, we built a lexicon dealing with (1) the actors involved in these processes ; (2) triggering factors and issues to be resolved ; (3) the nature of the process through which actors are engaged ; (4) its components or outputs (new technology, new process, new service, new organization, new policy etc.) ; (5) the themes or domains tackled; and (6) the innovation maturity level. Lexicon - 1st version (desira-lift-v1.ods) Three researchers on agricultural innovation (CA, AT, SM) designed, with the support of the “Keops Team”, the lexicon's overall architecture. Keywords were then identified by combining 3 types of resources : The researchers proposed keywords based on previous scientific work on agricultural innovation, Relevant keywords were then selected from the LEAP4FNSSA lexicon, dedicated to food security (https://dataverse.cirad.fr/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.18167/DVN1/D1C53L), The researchers selected additional keywords from a list of 20 keywords generated by ChatGPT for each concept. The lexicon is divided into 3 levels: vocabularies (level 1, corresponding to sheet names), concepts (level 2, corresponding to the first column of each sheet) and keywords (level 3, corresponding to the second column of each sheet), distributed as follows : The vocabulary Actors contains 3 concepts and 429 keywords The vocabulary Innovation triggers contains 5 concepts and 82 keywords The vocabulary Innovation process contains 4 concepts and 59 keywords The vocabulary Innovation products contains 9 concepts and 140 keywords The vocabulary Innovation theme or domain contains 19 concepts and 327 keywords The vocabulary Innovation phase contains 4 concepts and 24 keywords Lexicon - enhanced version (desira-lift-v2.ods) We built upon the first version of the Desira-LIFT lexicon and proposed an enhanced version. Three major changes have been made: (1) new keywords were added after a new phase of consultation with the experts, (2) we added a new column containing, when relevant, the plural form and synonyms of each keyword, and (3) two axes were renamed (Innovation theme or domain -&gt; Innovation purpose, Innovation products -&gt; Innovation outputs). The enhanced DeSIRA-LIFT lexicon is divided into 3 levels: axes (level 1, corresponding to sheet names), concepts (level 2, corresponding to the first column of each sheet) and keywords (level 3, corresponding to the second column of each sheet), distributed as follows : The axis Actors contains 2 concepts and 26 keywords The axis Innovation triggers contains 6 concepts and 94 keywords The axis Innovation process contains 4 concepts and 90 keywords The axis Innovation outputs contains 9 concepts and 160 keywords The axis Innovation purpose contains 19 concepts and 336 keywords The axis Innovation phase contains 4 concepts and 24 keywords