Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?

By L. Klerkx, A. Hall, C. Leeuwis. 2009

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In the case of a drive for a male-die-side ejector slidably disposed in a slide of a mechanical metal-forming press having an angle lever which is pivotably disposed at the slide, one leg of the lever acting upon the end of the ejector facing way from the male die and the other leg thereof being acted upon by a control cam which is driven in a timed manner and being held in contact with this control cam, a free adjustability of the moving characteristics of the ejector is achieved in that the control cam is provided at a control carriage which is slidable in a guide fixed at the frame in parallel to the moving direction of the slide, and at which a control connecting rod is applied in a bearing, this control connecting rod, at one end, being disposed eccentrically on a shaft serving also as the drive of the slide.

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Agricultural innovation and inclusive value-chain development: a review (2018, background): “For this reason, interventions to promote innovation often involve what may be called “innovation brokering” or “facilitation,” which focuses on enabling other actors to engage in critical reflection, experimentation, and joint learning (Klerkx et al., 2009, p. 413).”
Functions and limitations of farmer cooperatives as innovation intermediaries: Findings from China (2014, background): “This balancing of accountabilities is not easy, and innovation intermediaries may face legitimacy tensions as they generally confront diverging and conflicting interests and face accountability conflicts due to multiple demands directed towards them (Klerkx et al., 2009; Klerkx and Leeuwis, 2009b).”
Agricultural Extension, Collective Action and Innovation Systems: Lessons on Network Brokering from Peru and Mexico (2012, background): “…stories in terms of the role of facilitators or network brokers in fostering collective action and innovation systems, Klerkx and Leeuwis (2009) and Klerkx et al. (2009) highlight challenges, not least: maintaining a neutral position (e.g., ensuring that they are genuinely seen as facilitators and…”
Adaptive management in agricultural innovation systems: The interactions between innovation networks and their environment (2010, methodology): “Such innovation brokers assist in vision formulation and reformulation, continuous network formation and adaptation, and facilitation of multi-stakeholder interaction by means of network coordination and mediation (Klerkx and Leeuwis, 2009; Klerkx et al., 2009; Kristjanson et al., 2009), by applying”
Beyond knowledge brokering: an exploratory study on innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya (2011, background): “It is this dearth of empirical analysis that led us to the research questions – What does the innovation intermediary landscape in the evolving Kenyan agricultural innovation system look like? How and why do the intermediaries contribute to innovation support, beyond knowledge brokering? Furthermore”
Taking Complexity in Food Systems Seriously: An Interdisciplinary Analysis (2014, background): “Marschke and Berkes (2006) conducted a resilience-based analysis of livelihood strategies of Cambodian households in two fishing villages.”
An innovation systems approach to institutional change: Smallholder development in West Africa (2012, background): “Innovation brokers (Klerkx et al., 2009; Klerkx et al., 2010) can help mediate such interaction.”
Review of agricultural extension in India: Are farmers' information needs being met? (2010, background): “This evolving idea of innovation systems in agriculture moves beyond the traditional role played by agricultural extension and into a system in which the innovation intermediary could be, but does not necessarily have to be, an extension agency (Klerkx, Hall, and Leeuwis 2009).”
Improving market access and agricultural productivity growth in Africa: what role for producer organizations and collective action institutions? (2011, background): “In the agricultural sector, innovation is a central strategy to achieve economic, social and environmental goals (Klerkx et al. 2009).”
Information networks that generate economic value: a study on clusters of adopters of new or improved technologies and practices among oil palm growers in Mexico. (2015, background): “Also, it appears that while the AIM provides complimentary services, it could more actively overcome homophily and act as a central catalyst of multi-actor networks, in line with work that underscores the need to foster such heterogeneous networks in innovation systems (Compagnone and Hellec, 2015; ”
Operationalizing inclusive innovation: lessons from innovation platforms in livestock value chains in India and Mozambique (2014, background): “…importance of intermediaries to link producers to the platform (e.g. through CAHWs), it also showed the importance of innovation brokers to establish relations with other VC actors (con ﬁ rming ﬁ ndings by Klerkx, Hall, and Leeuwis 2009; Szogs, Cummings, and Chaminade 2011; Foster and Heeks 2013a).”
Stakeholder mapping for the governance of biosecurity: a literature review (2015, background): “Considerable attention has been given to the role that ‘knowledge brokers’ or ‘intermediaries’ and ‘boundary organisations’ play in the diffusion of information and knowledge through these networks (Hargadon 2002; Howells 2006; Klerkx and Leeuwis 2008; Klerkx et al. 2009).”