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Effects of multi-stakeholder platforms on multi-stakeholder innovation networks: implications for research for development interventions targeting innovations at scale

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Title Effects of multi-stakeholder platforms on multi-stakeholder innovation networks: implications for research for development interventions targeting innovations at scale
 
Creator Sartas, Murat
Schut, Marc
Hermans, F.
Asten, Piet J.A. van
Leeuwis, Cees
 
Subject multi-stakeholder
innovation
nutritional status
 
Description Open Access Journal
Multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) have been playing an increasing role in interventions aiming to generate and scale innovations in agricultural systems. However, the contribution of MSPs in achieving innovations and scaling has been varied, and many factors have been reported to be important for their performance. This paper aims to provide evidence on the contribution of MSPs to innovation and scaling by focusing on three developing country cases in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda. Through social network analysis and logistic models, the paper studies the changes in the characteristics of multi-stakeholder innovation networks targeted by MSPs and identifies factors that play significant roles in triggering these changes. The results demonstrate that MSPs do not necessarily expand and decentralize innovation networks but can lead to contraction and centralization in the initial years of implementation. They show that some of the intended next users of interventions with MSPs–local-level actors–left the innovation networks, whereas the lead organization controlling resource allocation in the MSPs substantially increased its centrality. They also indicate that not all the factors of change in innovation networks are country specific. Initial conditions of innovation networks and funding provided by the MSPs are common factors explaining changes in innovation networks across countries and across different network functions. The study argues that investigating multi-stakeholder innovation network characteristics targeted by the MSP using a network approach in early implementation can contribute to better performance in generating and scaling innovations, and that funding can be an effective implementation tool in developing country contexts.
 
Date 2018-06-05
2018-07-16T13:24:51Z
2018-07-16T13:24:51Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Sartas, M., Schut, M., Hermans, F., van Asten, P. & Leeuwis, C. (2018). Effects of multi-stakeholder platforms on multi-stakeholder innovation networks: implications for research for development interventions targeting innovations at scale. PloS one, 13(6), 1-20
1932-6203
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/96160
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197993
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
SOCIAL SCIENCE & AGRIBUSINESS
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1-20
application/pdf
 
Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
 
Source PLOS ONE