IIFG overview WP2

WP2: Country reviews : 

WP2: Country reviews Purpose: Country reviews with examples to illustrate country innovation strategies Background for in depth reviews (WP 3-5): articulation of core themes, approaches and factors of failures and successes

WP2: activities : 

WP2: activities Each team delivered a paper with a critical overview of actual innovation practices, including: Description of national agriculture Non-agricultural economic activities Trajectory of AKIS, governance system Actors and networks involved in innovation Innovation processes and approaches Support measures to innovation SWOT analysis 5 critical comparative issues

WP2: activities cont. : 

WP2: activities cont. Peer reviews on national papers Meetings with national focus groups Exchange in project team Identification of commonalities and differences in the critical comparative issues

Synopsis of critical comparative issues : 

Synopsis of critical comparative issues Diversity: In models for agricultural development and for rural development, Including regional differences Diversity in resource endowment How to articulate needs, identify innovation potentials and design adequate, specific support measures?

critical comparative issues cont. : 

critical comparative issues cont. Institutions: Flexibility in institutions needed to recognise and deal with innovations Administrators don’t understand (concepts for) projects Inertia vs adaptability How to make institutions innovate,and support innovations more (pro)actively? How to scale up successful approaches?

critical comparative issues cont. : 

critical comparative issues cont. Social dimension: Human, social and educational components are essential to innovations; not only technological focus Innovations should also respond to social demands Risk of burn out, lack of time with drivers of innovation Social organisation for innovation How to keep the energy, commitment in initiatives? What are appropriate stimuli? How can concepts from social networking and social learning help in this respect?

critical comparative issues cont. : 

critical comparative issues cont. Management of innovation processes Conflicting and negotiation phases are essential for innovation processes, for people to find consensus Local, participative, bottom-up approaches are key to successful innovation, preferably project based How to compare approaches? How efficient is the project based approach, what are alternatives?

critical comparative issues cont. : 

critical comparative issues cont. Drivers for innovation: Demand driven vs supply driven Public-private partnerships Cross-sectoral platforms Social movements How to best deal with interpretation of social demand? How to embody all these aspects in drivers for change?

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