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The innovation platform (IP) approach has gained
popularity as a promising way to stimulate meaning-
ful changes in agricultural systems.
In the innovation literature, intermediaries are
portrayed as neutral agents. How their experience
and intrinsic capacity interplay with the innovation
processes and contribute to specific innovation
functions was not studied specifically.
• baCkgRound
The broader contribution of this study is to provide
empirical evidences on how intermediaries in inno-
vation communities contribute to the innovation
functions in the context Sub-Saharan agricultural
and climate change.
• objeCtives
Research focused on three diversified case studies
from Jirapa, Lawra and Nandom districts, in the
Upper West Region of Ghana.
Empirical data were collected from field interviews
and observations to investigate the dynamics that
take place in the practice of the platform approach.
• Methodology
The profile of the intermediaries affects the activi-
ties that they promote.
The more the intermediaries are engaged in a wide
network, the more diversified are the activities,
contributing to many innovation functions.
The combination of divers functions offer more
rooms for sustainable transformation.
• ConClusions
Contribution of science-policy platforms to innovation functions:
An analysis of three case-studies from Ghana Edmond Totin1, Carla Roncoli2, Pierre Sibiry Traoré1
1International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)2Emory University, USA
Corresponding author email: [email protected]
- At Jirapa, the platform intermediary is extension
officer; at Lawra, the traditional authorities and
at Nandom, an NGO. The choice of intermedia-
ries is shaped by the broader historical, political
and the institutional contexts in each district.
- At Jirapa, the focus is on the knowledge develop-
ment & diffusion function;
- Lawra platform goes beyond primary function
of knowledge development & diffusion,
intermediaries developed activities that also
contribute the legitimation function.
- At Nandom, intermediaries propose a wide range
of activities that contribute to Knowledge
development & diffusion; Entrepreneurship and
Market identification and formation functions.
• Results