Se presenta un estudio de la dinámica de relacionamiento que tiene lugar en los procesos de aprendizaje en sistemas de innovación agroalimentarios regionales, y la manera en que INTA interviene en ellos. El estudio se enfoca desde la perspectiva institucional del evolucionismo, utilizando como herramienta el concepto de redes elaborado desde la sociología del conocimiento. Se pone en juego el sistema de ciencia, tecnología e innovación, en cuanto a su coordinación, conformación y a las políticas públicas que lo rigen.
En este documento se presenta un estudio de la Red de Cooperación para la Innovación y el Desarrollo del Territorio en temas forestales, en el Área de Influencia de la Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Delta del Paraná del INTA, con enfoque teórico de Análisis de Red Social. Los objetivos fueron describir la red, investigar su estructura y analizar si había sinergia entre Cooperación y Capital Social. Con una encuesta y entrevistas semi estructuradas, se dio cuenta de la existencia de redes de cooperación y de vínculos favorecedores del Capital Social.
Este libro está dirigido a todos aquellos interesados en la innovación como fenómeno sistémico. El marco teórico general es el de los siste-mas de innovación, dada su capacidad de explicación de un fenómeno complejo, su centralidad en el diseño de políticas y –como se verá a lo largo del libro– su potencial para discutir los problemas del desarrollo. Este libro no pretende ser un manual, en el sentido que se presentarán elementos centrales y constitutivos del enfoque y relaciones de causas y consecuencias.
Agriculture and food supply face a repositioning in the context of challenges associated with the Millennium Development Goals. From a development perspective it is of central importance to identify the role that the sector should perform in the fight against poverty and in a world that is increasingly urbanized.
The increasing complexity of technology development and adoption is rapidly changing the effectiveness of scientific and technological policies. Complex technologies are developed and disseminated by networks of agents. The impact of these networks depends on the assets they command, their learning routines, the socio-economic environment in which they operate and their history.
This paper analyzes how the Papa Andina Partnership Program, based at the International Potato Center, functions as an innovation broker in the Andean potato sector. As a regional initiative, Papa Andina operates as a second-level innovation broker, backstopping national partners who facilitate local innovation processes in their respective countries. Papa Andina works to strengthen local innovation capacity and to foster innovations in innovation the development of more effective ways of bringing stakeholders together to produce innovations that benefit small-scale farmers.
This synthesis report presents the outputs of the workshop organised by CTA at its headquarters in Wageningen, The Netherlands, 15-17 July 2008. The outputs are presented in two main parts, each corresponding to one of the workshop objectives, and ends with a section on the way forward as suggested by the workshop participants. It also includes a first attempt to come to a consolidated generic framework on AIS performance indicators, based on the outputs of the different working groups.
This policy brief deals with the following points: (i) Given the importance of agriculture and the rural medium for countries’ growth and development, policy makers must strengthen the institutional structure of rural extension and increase public and private investment; (ii) Abundant natural resources, knowledge, technology, and extensionists are not enough.
The question of how agricultural research can best be used for developmental purposes is a topic of some debate in developmental circles. The idea that this is simply a question of better transfer of ideas from research to farmers has been largely discredited. Agricultural innovation is a process that takes a multitude of different forms, and, within this process, agricultural research and expertise are mobilised at different points in time for different purposes. This paper uses two key analytical principles in order to find how research is actually put into use.
This paper presents an overview of current opportunities and challenges facing efforts to increase the impact of rural and agricultural extension. The starting point for this analysis is in recognition that the days when agricultural extension was synonymous with the work of public sector agencies are over.