scholarly journals Understanding and managing bacterial wilt and late blight of potato in Ethiopia : Combining an innovation systems approach and a collective action perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiferaw Tafesse Gobena
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Late Blight ◽  
Bacterial Wilt ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Late Blight Of Potato

An innovation systems approach to institutional change: Smallholder development in West Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 74-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Hounkonnou ◽  
Dansou Kossou ◽  
Thomas W. Kuyper ◽  
Cees Leeuwis ◽  
E. Suzanne Nederlof ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Innovation Systems

Mapping Innovation Diplomacy in Denmark and Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Didzis Kļaviņš
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Technological Forecasting ◽  
Innovation Diplomacy ◽  
Innovation Approach ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Summary The aim of this article is to identify and map innovation diplomacy actions in Denmark and Sweden using the ‘functions of innovation systems’ approach. Based on Hekkert et al.’s seven key system functions (Marko P. Hekkert, Roald A. A. Suurs, Simona O. Negro, Stefan Kuhlmann and Ruud E. H. M. Smits, ‘Functions of Innovation Systems: A New Approach for Analysing Technological Change’, Technological Forecasting & Social Change 74 (4) (2007), 413-432), the article assess the role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in meeting governments’ innovation targets. The empirical analysis, including twelve semi-structured interviews with seventeen career diplomats, reveals the key initiatives that countries are taking in furthering their homeland’s innovation aims or ambitions. The study also asks whether the ‘diplomacy for innovation’ approach of both Scandinavian MFAs are consistent with the ‘whole-of-government’ and ‘whole-of-society’ approaches.

Regional Innovation Systems: Finland’s Experience

2012 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
V. Pchelintsev
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Regional Innovation Systems ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Innovation Policies

The paper examines governmental strategies, main actors and instruments of innovation policies shaping innovation-driven economy in Finland, with particular attention to the regional scale. The analysis focuses on how the regional innovation systems approach became a framework for the design of innovation policies. An innovation system involves cooperation between firms and knowledge creating and diffusing organizations, – such as universities, colleges, training organizations, R&D-institutes, technology transfer agencies. Innovations are considered as interactive learning process. Cooperation and interaction between regional/local and national/international actors is necessary to combine both local and non-local knowledge, skills and competences. The key elements of the policy environment, as well as implementation of the main regional innovation policy instruments – the Centers of Expertise Programme and Regional Centre Programme – are described.

scholarly journals Analysis of a Monitoring System for Bacterial Wilt Management by Seed Potato Cooperatives in Ethiopia: Challenges and Future Directions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3580
Author(s):  
Shiferaw Tafesse ◽  
Rico Lie ◽  
Barbara van Mierlo ◽  
Paul C. Struik ◽  
Berga Lemaga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Seed Potato ◽  
Bacterial Wilt ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Complex Disease ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Plant Diseases ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Monitoring Systems

Collective action is required to deal with various complex agricultural problems such as invasive weeds and plant diseases that pose a collective risk to farmers. Monitoring systems could help to stimulate collective action and avoid free-riding. The paper develops a novel framework consisting of essential elements of a monitoring system for managing a complex disease like bacterial wilt in potato crops. The framework is used to explore how seed potato cooperatives in Ethiopia operationalised the essential elements of a monitoring system and identifies which challenges remain to be overcome. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, reflective workshops, participant observation, and document analysis. We found that the cooperatives had organised a self-monitoring system to monitor disease occurrence and the disease management practices of their members. Monitoring committees were in charge of the data collection and enforcement of sanctions on farmers who did not adhere to the cooperatives’ bylaws. The main challenges included the dependency on visual observation, which does not disclose latent infections, limited financial incentives for the monitoring committee members, lack of trust, weak peer monitoring, and the social and ecological interdependency between producers of ware and seed potatoes. Suggestions are provided to strengthen the monitoring systems of farmers’ seed potato cooperatives in Ethiopia. In addition, we discuss the broader value of our novel framework for describing and analysing monitoring systems for future research and intervention.

scholarly journals A technological innovation systems approach to analyse the roles of intermediaries in eco-innovation

2019 ◽  
Vol 227 ◽  
pp. 1136-1148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wisdom Kanda ◽  
Pablo del Río ◽  
Olof Hjelm ◽  
Dzamila Bienkowska
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Innovation Systems

scholarly journals Enhancing adoption of climate services through an innovation systems approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e00445
Author(s):  
Mary Mwangi ◽  
Evans Kituyi ◽  
Gilbert Ouma
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Climate Services

An analysis of remote electric mini-grids in Laos using the Technological Innovation Systems approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 218-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola U. Blum ◽  
Catharina R. Bening ◽  
Tobias S. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Innovation Systems

Effects of the aerial environment on late blight of potato foliage?a review

1992 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. HARRISON
Keyword(s):  
Late Blight ◽  
Potato Foliage ◽  
Late Blight Of Potato
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