Enhancing agricultural innovation
Subtitle: how to go beyond the strengthening of research systems.
Contributors: World Bank.
Series: Agriculture and rural development; Agriculture and rural development series
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780821367414; 9780821367407
Subjects: Agricultural innovations -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "Enhancing Agricultural Innovation came about as a result of an international workshop organized in June 2001 in Washington, DC by the World Bank's Agriculture and Rural Development Department. The book evaluates real-world innovation systems and assesses the usefulness of the concept in guiding investments to support knowledge-intensive, sustainable agriculture development for the Bank's client countries and their collaborators. A typology of innovation systems is developed; strategies to guide investments for strengthening innovation capacity are drawn up, and concrete interventions options are identified."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-150) and index.
Table of contents: title: Reasons for assessing the value of the innovation systems perspective; title: The innovation systems concept: a framework for analysis; title: Research methodology and case study descriptions; title: Innovation system capacity: a comparative analysis of case studies; title: Reviewing the innovation systems concept in light of the case studies; title: Toward a framework for diagnosis and intervention; title: Conclusions.