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Contribution of science policy platforms to innovation functions

  1. The innovation platform (IP) approach has gained popularity as a promising way to stimulate meaning- ful changes in agricultural systems. In the innovation literature, intermediaries are portrayed as neutral agents. How their experience and intrinsic capacity interplay with the innovation processes and contribute to specific innovation functions was not studied specifically. • baCkgRound The broader contribution of this study is to provide empirical evidences on how intermediaries in inno- vation communities contribute to the innovation functions in the context Sub-Saharan agricultural and climate change. • objeCtives Research focused on three diversified case studies from Jirapa, Lawra and Nandom districts, in the Upper West Region of Ghana. Empirical data were collected from field interviews and observations to investigate the dynamics that take place in the practice of the platform approach. • Methodology The profile of the intermediaries affects the activi- ties that they promote. The more the intermediaries are engaged in a wide network, the more diversified are the activities, contributing to many innovation functions. The combination of divers functions offer more rooms for sustainable transformation. • ConClusions Contribution of science-policy platforms to innovation functions: An analysis of three case-studies from Ghana Edmond Totin1 , Carla Roncoli2 , Pierre Sibiry Traoré1 1 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) 2 Emory University, USA Corresponding author email: e.totin@cigar.org - At Jirapa, the platform intermediary is extension officer; at Lawra, the traditional authorities and at Nandom, an NGO. The choice of intermedia- ries is shaped by the broader historical, political and the institutional contexts in each district. - At Jirapa, the focus is on the knowledge develop- ment & diffusion function; - Lawra platform goes beyond primary function of knowledge development & diffusion, intermediaries developed activities that also contribute the legitimation function. - At Nandom, intermediaries propose a wide range of activities that contribute to Knowledge development & diffusion; Entrepreneurship and Market identification and formation functions. • Results
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