Measuring agricultural innovation system properties and performance: Illustrations from Ethiopia and Vietnam

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dc.creatorSpielman, David J.
dc.creatorMekonnen, Dawit Kelemework
dc.date2009
dc.date2024-11-21T09:59:33Z
dc.date2024-11-21T09:59:33Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:36:30Z
dc.descriptionThe rapidly changing nature of the global food and agriculture system suggests the need to rethink how innovation can contribute to developing-country agriculture. While scientific and technological changes in agriculture can help foster productivity growth and poverty reduction, their contributions are incomplete without commensurate changes in the wider system of which they are a part. A more systems-oriented understanding of how innovation occurs in a society and economy is critical to promoting dynamism, responsiveness, and competitiveness in developing-country agriculture and, ultimately, to enhancing productivity and reducing poverty. However, without adequate measures of the properties and performance of an agricultural innovation system, it is difficult for policymakers, investors, donors, and practitioners to promote policies and investments that foster greater innovativeness in agriculture. This suggests the need for a measure of agricultural innovativeness that preferably extends beyond the “black box” approach of measuring only inputs and outputs, focusing on the underlying processes that contribute to building the capabilities needed to create an innovative agricultural sector. To this end, this paper attempts to provide a “proof of concept” that innovativeness in developing-country agriculture can be measured. It first identifies a set of indicators from secondary data sources that measure the key elements of an agricultural innovation system. Several hundred indicators are reviewed, validated, and aggregated into a unique Agriculture, Development, and Innovation Index (ADII). The paper then provides a toolkit for collecting and analyzing “systems-oriented” indicators that add more process-related nuances to the ADII with both attributional and relational data. This is illustrated with data collected in Ethiopia and Vietnam in 2007–08.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/161928
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/109281
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceSpielman, David J.; Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework. 2009. Measuring agricultural innovation system properties and performance: Illustrations from Ethiopia and Vietnam. IFPRI Discussion Paper 851. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161928
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectdeveloping countries
dc.subjectinnovation
dc.subjectscience
dc.subjecttechnology
dc.titleMeasuring agricultural innovation system properties and performance: Illustrations from Ethiopia and Vietnam
dc.typeWorking Paper

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