Rethinking innovation and development: Insights from the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India
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Sustaining innovation for development requires rethinking the notion of the poor as passive beneficiaries of the products of others’ innovation. Recent thinking in development studies and in the literature on innovation points to the need for the poor to be active participants in the innovation process, a view that has independently gained ground through grassroots innovation networks. This paper looks at the evolution of a commons-based agricultural innovation – the System of Rice Intensification in India, to show how a systemic approach to innovation could benefit not just the poor but all the actors in an innovation system. This, however, requires institutional changes and a reconfiguration of agricultural research that would enable knowledge flows between research and non-research actors. Building innovation capacity in the system through a learning focus on actors and their institutional innovations and relating to the poor as users in user-centric approaches are suggested as ways forward.
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