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From measuring impact to learning institutional lessons: (Record no. 6888)

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International Standard Book Number 970-648-104-4
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Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
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Subject category code A50
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Subject category code E10
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 338.91
Item number WAT
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hall, A.
Affiliation International conference on impacts of agricultural research and development: Why has impact assessment research not made more of a difference?
110 0# - MAIN ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Mexico DF (Mexico)
111 2# - MAIN ENTRY--MEETING NAME
Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element International Conference on Impacts of Agricultural Research and Development
Location of meeting San José (Costa Rica)
Date of meeting 4-7 Feb 2002
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title From measuring impact to learning institutional lessons:
Remainder of title an innovation systems perspective on improving the management of international agricultural research
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Mexico, DF (Mexico)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. CIMMYT :
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2003
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Extent p. 92
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Material base and configuration Printed
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Summary, etc. This paper argues that efforts to measure the impact of agricultural research have largely failed to improve developmental impacts, because commonly used assessment methods fail to provide research managers with critical institutionallessons for improving innovation. Approaches such as measuring rates of return to investment, while providing politically expedient evidence of the value of public research, offer little help in understanding the complex processes and institutional factors that gave rise to the relative success of different research initiatives. The reasons behind this problem relate to the disciplinary and conceptual conventions that underpin both impact assessment methods and agricultural research policy generally. The former is based on linear assumptions about the relationship between research inputs and economic outputs. Methodological problems aside, economic analysis of this type is ill equipped to give insights into the evolution of agricultural systems.||This paper proposes a systems model of innovation as a complementary framework to understanding agricultural innovation (technical and economic change) in its wider institutional context. In this systems conceptualization, innovation performance and impact is viewed as resulting from the existence and ability of coalitions, or systems of public and private research and non-research institutions, to interact, create, transfer, and apply economically useful knowledge. In these systems, innovations are derived from evolutionary combinations of technical and institutional change. Case studies from India and Africa are used to demonstrate how this conceptualization of the innovation process could be used to evaluate research and technology programs and inform planning and research management.||The paper concludes by recognizing that international and national research efforts have some way to go before better integration with a wider set of innovation system actors can be achieved. However, there is increasing evidence that developmental impacts from investments in agricultural science could be improved if policy was informed by the institutional lessons provided by an innovations systems perspective. Adopting the evolutionary institutional learning processes that innovation systems thinking identifies as critically important could be part of a complementary assessment approach to improve planning and research management practices. This would assist policy to address the efficiency of the research process rather than, as at present, only measuring its outputs.
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Language note English
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Affiliation 0310|AGRIS 0301|AL-Economics Program|R01PROCE
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Collection CIMMYT Publications Collection
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Agricultural development
Miscellaneous information AGROVOC
Source of heading or term
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650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Agricultural policies
650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Agricultural situation
650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Public sector
650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Research methods
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Uncontrolled term CIMMYT
650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Agricultural research
Miscellaneous information AGROVOC
Source of heading or term
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700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 960
Personal name Watson, D.J.
Miscellaneous information Research & Partnership Program
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Relator term ed.
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Koha item type Conference proceedings
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02/10/2015   338.91 WAT 2C632147 1 02/10/2015 Conference proceedings Not Lost     CIMMYT Publications Collection   CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library 02/10/2015

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