Innovation Management: A New Framework for Enabling Agricultural Innovation

By : V. Rasheed Sulaiman , Andy Hall , T.S. Vamsidhar Reddy

Page No: 140-148

Abstract
This paper provides a framework to help analyze the sorts of innovation management tasks that are becoming important. This framework distinguishes three elements of innovation management: (i) Functions (ii) Actions (iii) and Tools. The paper’s analysis of the innovation management in the Research Into Use (RIU) projects in South Asia suggests that it is not technology accessrelated tasks alone that are important, but the bundling of these with other activities, which include the development of networks, advocacy for policy change, training and other negotiated changes in practice and action. The implication for policy is that putting new knowledge into use requires projects, organizations and/ or initiatives whose chief characteristic is not primarily as a conduit to technology but rather is one of being able to undertake a much wider range of innovation management tasks.

Authors :
V. Rasheed Sulaiman, Andy Hall and T.S. Vamsidhar Reddy were part of the Central Research Team constituted by the Research Into Use (RIU) programme as Head of Asia Research, Head of the CRT and Research Fellow respectively.