Towards a Better Conceptual Framework for Innovation Processes in Agriculture and Rural Development: From Linear Models to Systemic Approaches

By K. Knickel, Gianluca Brunori, Sigrid Rand, J. Proost. 2009

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Beyond knowledge brokering: an exploratory study on innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya (2011, background): “In the context of agriculture innovation in developing countries, as in other regions, intermediaries facilitate the setting of the innovation agenda: by organising producers and the rural poor; by building coalitions of different stakeholders; by promoting platforms for information and knowledge sh”
Do decentralized innovation systems promote agricultural technology adoption? Experimental evidence from Africa (2014, background): “According to this perspective, key agricultural innovations are created by specialists (researchers), distributed by other specialists (extension workers), and adopted by producers (Leeuwis and van den Ban, 2004; Knickel et al., 2009).”
Public-private partnerships as systemic agricultural innovation policy instruments – Assessing their contribution to innovation system function dynamics (2019, background): “Such profound changes, that require more than simple technological fixes, are called system innovations, or transitions and they require the involvement of various kinds of stakeholders in processes of social change (Poppe et al., 2009; Knickel et al., 2009).”