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Promoting Local Innovation : Enhancing IK Dynamics and Links with Scientific Knowledge

Local innovation refers to the dynamics of IK - the knowledge that grows within a social group, incorporating learning from own experience over generations but also knowledge gained from other sources and fully internalized within local ways of thi...

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Main Author: World Bank
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
AGRICULTURE
ANIMALS
CAPACITY BUILDING
COLLABORATION
DIGITAL DIVIDE
EDUCATORS
EXPERIMENTS
EXTENSION
FARMERS
FARMING
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
INNOVATION
INNOVATIONS
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
LEARNING
LIVELIHOODS
MARKETING
MEDIA
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
NATURAL RESOURCES
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
NGOS
PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
PASTORALISTS
PRODUCE
RADIO
RAINFED FARMING
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
SCIENTISTS
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/5548423/promoting-local-innovation-enhancing-ik-dynamics-links-scientific-knowledge
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10761
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Summary:Local innovation refers to the dynamics of IK - the knowledge that grows within a social group, incorporating learning from own experience over generations but also knowledge gained from other sources and fully internalized within local ways of thinking and doing. Local innovation is the process through which individuals or groups discover or develop new and better ways of managing resources - building on and expanding the boundaries of their IK.

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