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Reflexive monitoring in agricultural innovation processes

Reflexive monitoring in agricultural innovation processes Barbara van Mierlo Communication and Innovation Studies Wageningen University. Reflexive monitoring in agricultural innovation processes. Views on innovation Monitoring in system innovation Comparison with ‘classical’ monitoring

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Reflexive monitoring in agricultural innovation processes

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  1. Reflexive monitoring in agricultural innovation processesBarbara van Mierlo Communication and Innovation StudiesWageningen University

  2. Reflexive monitoring in agricultural innovation processes • Views on innovation • Monitoring in system innovation • Comparison with ‘classical’ monitoring • Suggestions for monitoring in extension reform

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  5. “Old” view: Developed at special research institutes Technology Individual adoption “New” view: Emerging anywhere A process of developing hard-, soft- and orgware Complementary action Changing views on innovation(summary presentation Leeuwis 2007)

  6. Institutional bottlenecks land reform • Sectoral policy (e.g. slow release of funds) • Knowledge infrastructure • Physical infrastructure • Cultural meanings of land • Network failures • Market structure

  7. Land reform and reconceptualising extension mean system innovation • Co-evolutionary process of product and process innovations • Changes in routines, values and thinking of a diversity of interdependent actors • Institutionalised conditions are part of innovation processes

  8. Innovation activities and system innovation System innovation Results Activities aimed at innovation

  9. Role of reflexive monitoring Contributing to: system innovation Monitoring Results • Second order learning • Institutional change Activities aimed at innovation Process conditions • Heterogeneous network formation • Ambition

  10. Growing crops with future

  11. Contributingto: system innovation Monitoring Results Activities aimed at innovation Process conditions Growing crops with future

  12. Reflexive monitoring cycle Adaption of activities Reflection Observation • As much as possible: • Integrated • Collective • Embedded Analysis/ reporting

  13. Goal oriented monitoring and evaluation • Predefined results top-down • Linear relation between activities and results assumed • Quantitative, ‘objective’ indicators • For accountability

  14. Reflexive monitoring • Learning effects among the participants, but also unintended effects, ‘failures’, uncertainty, relevant developments in the context • Multi-causality and ambiguity • Flexible, dynamic process indicators given meaning by all stakeholders • For learning and system innovation

  15. Suggestions for monitoring the transformation of extension services, education and policy • Develop logframes with stakeholders, including new farmers • Build in moments of collective (and individual) reflection • Develop tools for taking perspective and monitoring ‘external’ developments

  16. Suggestions for monitoring the transformation of extension practices, education and policy • Take care of process conditions: • Heterogeneity • Ambition • Room to experiment • Track the quality of effects critically: • Second order learning • Institutional change • Competence development

  17. Thank you for your attention!

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