Scale dynamics of grassroots innovations through parallel pathways of transformative change

Hermans, Frans; Roep, D.; Klerkx, Laurens

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.07.011

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“…This implies that while the platform can create enabling conditions which have the potential to influence change elsewhere (Kilelu et al, 2013), platform impacts cannot be directly extrapolated to another locality such as another district. This points to the importance to think more strategically about which scales in agricultural systems and value chains need to be engaged with by innovation platform, and hence which types of members need to be recruited (Hermans et al, 2016).…”

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Innovation platforms and institutional change: the case of small-scale palm oil processing in Ghana

Adjei-Nsiah

Klerkx

2016

Cah. Agric.

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-Oil palm is an important industrial, livelihood and food crop in Ghana. Smallholders produce the bulk of the palm fruits and small-scale processors, mainly women, produce most of the crude palm oil. Poor practices lead to a high proportion of free fatty acids in the crude palm oil and the processors thus cannot access remunerative national and international markets. Exploratory and diagnostic studies identified the absence of rules and regulations governing processing as a major factor. An innovation platform was convened and facilitated to remove the identified institutional constraints. Based on event tracing, this paper reports a study of the effects of the innovation platform's interventions and how these were achieved. Institutional entrepreneurs are shown to play important roles: they mobilised resources such as expertise, knowledge, access to information and high-level political power to influence small-scale processors to adopt alternative practices. The institutional changes observed are shown to arise in cooperation between traditional authorities (chiefs), the district legislature and authorities at the national level, who together institutionalised the experimental actions and processes taken in the study area. The institutional elements they most affected were: rules and regulations, the legitimacy of new practices and organisational arrangements, co-generation of knowledge, material resources, and the strategic and communication skills of key actors.

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Innovation platforms and institutional change: the case of small-scale palm oil processing in Ghana

Adjei-Nsiah

Klerkx

2016

Cah. Agric.

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“…This article explores the involvement of, and interactions between stakeholders across different levels in agricultural innovation processes as earlier described by Coenen et al (2012) and Hermans et al (2016). The focus will be the administrative scale at which these stakeholders are active, which can be broken down into decisionmaking units ranging from the farm level to supranational level (Cash et al 2006;Schut et al 2014).…”

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“…Acknowledging the challenges of impact at scale and multilevel dynamics in innovation processes (Hansen and Coenen 2015;Hermans et al 2016;Makkonen and Inkinen 2014;€ Osterblom et al 2015;Westley et al 2014;Wigboldus et al 2016), AIS scholars argue for more explicitly addressing innovation as a process occurring across levels where different stakeholders can enact or resist to change (Cullen et al 2014;Foran et al 2014;Rodenburg et al 2015;Schut et al 2015a;Van Paassen et al 2014). One suggested approach is the creation of interlinked IPs; that is, community-level IPs to address local issues and (sub)national-level IPs to address (Schut et al 2016a …”

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Compositional dynamics of multilevel innovation platforms in agricultural research for development

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Schut²,

Klerkx

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Science and Public Policy

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Innovation platforms (IPs) form a popular vehicle in agricultural research for development (AR4D) to facilitate stakeholder interaction, agenda setting, and collective action toward sustainable agricultural development. In this article, we analyze multilevel stakeholder engagement in fulfilling seven key innovation system functions. Data are gathered from experiences with interlinked community and (sub)national IPs established under a global AR4D program aimed at stimulating sustainable agricultural development in Central Africa. Our findings show that all innovation systems functions required multilevel action, but that fulfillment of specific functions demands for strategic involvement of specific stakeholders at specific levels. We observed that a research-and dissemination-oriented sequence in the functions was prioritized in AR4D IPs and argue that such a sequence may be different in other types of (business) IPs. Our findings provide an incentive to think function oriented about compositional dynamics (stakeholder groups * levels) in innovation processes, rather than striving for equal stakeholder participation.

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“…The study of bioclusters, especially those bioclusters with a strong base in agriculture or forestry, provides an opportunity to study how the various effects of a cluster play out on these different scales and levels during the transition process. In this regard, the literature of socio‐ecological transformations can provide inspiration for some of the relevant ecological and environmental scales in a more scale‐sensitive approach of transition theory …”

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The potential contribution of transition theory to the analysis of bioclusters and their role in the transition to a bioeconomy

Hermans

2018

Biofuels Bioprod Bioref

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Biocluster initiatives have become an important tool for governments to establish, promote, and strengthen economic collaboration, learning, innovation, and employment within particular regions. However, in addition to issues like competitiveness and employment, bioclusters operate with the additional goal of fostering the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy. The profound changes that are required for a successful shift from a fossil-based economy to a bioeconomy are called transitions and the relatively new scientifi c fi eld of transition theory has emerged to study them. The aim of this paper is to show the contribution that transition theory can make to the study of bioclusters. In this paper I will review frameworks from the study of sustainability transitions (multi-level perspective and technical innovation systems) and frameworks from theories of evolutionary economic geography and cluster studies (regional and sectoral innovation systems). The review shows how the choice of a particular framework will shape the analysis of the biocluster through the particular focus and delineation associated with each framework. The review shows the advantages and disadvantages these frameworks have for incorporating the various issues related to the shift towards a bioeconomy that are currently neglected in the literature on bioclusters.

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Scale dynamics of grassroots innovations through parallel pathways of transformative change

Cited by 116 publications

References 55 publications

Innovation platforms and institutional change: the case of small-scale palm oil processing in Ghana

Innovation platforms and institutional change: the case of small-scale palm oil processing in Ghana

Compositional dynamics of multilevel innovation platforms in agricultural research for development

The potential contribution of transition theory to the analysis of bioclusters and their role in the transition to a bioeconomy

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