Constraints to the Adoption of Agricultural Innovations

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Sumberg
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Design Specification ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Adoption Of Innovations ◽  
Fundamental Step ◽  
Exogenous Factors ◽  
Agricultural Innovations

This paper argues that much of the discussion about constraints to the adoption of agricultural innovations is muddled because the distinction between variables that are endogenous to the fit between an innovation and a specified group of potential users, and those that are exogenous (that is, prerequisite conditions), is seldom made explicit during the innovation-development process. This distinction, which can emerge through a design-specification exercise, locates a much greater degree of responsibility for the eventual adoption outcome – whether positive or negative – within the innovation-development process itself. To continue to cite exogenous factors such as inappropriate land-tenure arrangements or lack of output markets as constraints to the adoption of innovations is to miss a fundamental step within the innovation-development process.

scholarly journals Improving communication and increasing adoption of innovations in the beef industry

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. A01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley Moreland ◽  
Paul Hyland
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
End Users ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Beef Industry ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Simple Diffusion ◽  
Adoption Of Innovations ◽  
Development Organizations

Agriculture has adopted many scientific innovations that have improved productivity. The majority of innovations in agriculture have been communicated to end users through a simple diffusion and dissemination model. However, as the science underpinning the innovations becomes more complex, research and development organizations need to look at better ways to communicate their innovation to end users. This paper examines innovations in the beef industry in Australia and investigates how complex innovations are being communicated and identifies the nature and level of communication with end users and the role of intermediaries. The findings support the need for greater involvement of end users in the innovation development process and a more vibrant two-way communication process between scientists, intermediaries and end users. The results also suggest that the traditional diffusion processes are insufficient to ensure high levels of awareness and adoption.

Innovation Management in the Tourism Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-184
Author(s):  
Emine Kale
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Dynamic Variable ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Innovation Characteristics ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Successful Innovation ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter examines innovation and innovation management in the tourism industry. To this end, the chapter first defines innovation for businesses in the tourism industry and investigates the importance of innovation, characteristics of innovation in tourism businesses, and types of innovation. In addition, the stages of the innovation development process for successful innovation management in tourism businesses, the factors that prevent the development of innovation, and the success factors for the development of innovation are discussed. This chapter will contribute to the development of an insight into the importance of innovation in the tourism industry, which is highly dynamic, variable, and risky, and reveal the factors necessary for the creation and implementation of successful innovation programs.

Formal Requirements and Design Specifications: The Clepsydra Methodology

1997 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Ciaccia ◽  
P. Ciancarini ◽  
W. Penzo
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Requirements Specification ◽  
Design Specification ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Design Specifications ◽  
Requirements Document ◽  
Formal Requirements ◽  
Formal Design ◽  
Is Design

The use of formal methods early in the development process has been advocated as a way of improving the quality of software products and their production process. Here we study the influence of a formal requirements document on the next phase in the software process, that is design. We suggest that formal design should coherently follow from formal requirements. We show that two different formal notations can be effectively used, one for writing requirements specification and one for design specification. We also consider how a design specification can be formally checked with respect to requirements specification. The notations we choose are well known: the Z notation for requirements and the Larch two-tiered language for design. We show how a number of tools based on these notations can be used to improve the quality of the documents produced during the development process.

scholarly journals The Role of Participation in the Responsible Innovation Framework for Biofuels Projects: Can It Be Assessed?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreia Marques Postal ◽  
Gabriela Benatti ◽  
Mar Palmeros Parada ◽  
Lotte Asveld ◽  
Patrícia Osseweijer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Responsible Research ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

The growth in biofuels’ investment brings with it concerns about the social and environmental impacts of the sector. Several tools and frameworks have been used to address these concerns, including the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) framework. This paper analyzes whether this framework can be applied in contexts where local culture and values shape differently the freedom of speech and engagement, such as in developing countries in which biofuel innovation projects are often implemented. A literature review focused on eight case studies of other authors was used to explore the role of “participation” as a structural element of the RRI framework and the impact of its absence where effective participation in the innovation development process is not possible. In conclusion, we highlight how this inspirational normative framework, designed to influence innovation, is misused to judge its impacts. More than that, the conclusions of such misused applications reflect more the difficulties involved in applying guidelines than the responsible character of the innovation, whose impacts are usually defined upfront materially and measurably.

Lean Startup Method Hampers Breakthrough Innovations and Company's Innovativeness

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 1850012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zornitsa B. Yordanova
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Radical Innovations ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Management Of Innovation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Breakthrough Innovation ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Lean Startup

The Lean Startup Method (LSM) provides a systematic management of innovation processes within startups and even within well-established companies. Despite its wide use by a lot of innovative companies, this study claims that using the LSM compromises the development of breakthrough and radical innovations and also companies' innovativeness is hindered given that companies usually follow the method and its principles blindly, without fully understanding its advantages and disadvantages. The aim of this study is to make a critical analysis of the LSM with focus on the above two statements and to test the critical findings from the analysis with the help of innovation experts. The methods employed in the study are mainly statistical ones like Pearson correlation, linear regression and statistical mean. The results show that innovation experts generally do agree with the formulated critical points (CPs) in the research but still use the method because they had not been aware of these disadvantages before entering the research as respondents. Another finding is the negative correlation between commercializing breakthrough innovations and using customers in the innovation development process. The contribution of the paper for the readers is mainly related to the impact of customer utilization within the breakthrough innovation development process and how using the LSM might compromise companies' innovativeness in general.

scholarly journals Motivation to Innovate as a Key Factor in Innovation Development Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Anna Svirina ◽  
Ekaterina Polosukhina
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
New Product Development Process

AbstractResearch purpose. The purpose of this study is to analyse the influence of industrial enterprises’ employees’ motivation to innovate on the results of innovation process and the quality of innovative products market performance. The need for such an assessment was inspired by the lack of understanding the role of motivation to innovate in the quality and success of innovation development process.Design/Methodology/Approach. To achieve this goal, the authors conducted a survey distributed to the industrial enterprise employees. The study was based on the paper-and-pencil survey that was distributed to 250 people involved in innovation development process at Russian industrial enterprises; 150 questionnaires were received back and considered valid for the study. The results were evaluated by means of statistical analysis performed by means of SPSS Statistics software.Findings. The results support the intuitive proposition that motivation to innovate influences the quality of new product development process: idea generation, market study, product development, pre-commercial financial analysis and commercialisation quality are influenced by motivation to innovate – which is in line with the literature (Cooper, 2013). At the same time, probability on new product development in the company, the quality of initial screening, preliminary technical analysis, preliminary production analysis and in-house product testing do not correlate with employee motivation to innovate. Same is true for the new product performance: we observed no correlation between the motivation to innovate and the market success, whereas correlation was revealed between the innovative motivation and the level of market competition for the new product; however, the graphical analysis allowed to estimate that in case employees with high motivation to innovate are absent in the company, it is very unlikely that the new product would be successful.Originality/Value/Practical implications. The study was based on a questionnaire that was used for relevant purposes in different countries in order to make cross-country comparison on the innovation development process and the role of motivation to innovate. It allowed to indicate the specific features of organisational culture that are outlined in the Russian management literature: in majority of cases, bottom-level innovative initiatives were not supported by the management (Prigozhin, 2007), and hence, motivation to innovate cannot be revealed by employees at every stage of the new product development process. Another reason for somewhat controversial findings of this study was the difference between organisational cultures of the analysed manufacturing enterprises, which was not evaluated in this article.

Interactive constraint-aided conceptual design

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARRY O'SULLIVAN
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Interactive Design ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Design Specification ◽  
General Technique ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Design Support Tool ◽  
Computational Reasoning

Engineering conceptual design can be defined as that phase of the product development process during which the designer takes a specification for a product to be designed and generates many broad solutions to it. This paper presents a constraint-based approach to supporting interactive conceptual design. The approach is based on an expressive and general technique for modeling: the design knowledge that a designer can exploit during a design project; the life-cycle environment that the final product faces; the design specification that defines the set of requirements the product must satisfy; and the structure of the various schemes that are developed by the designer. A computational reasoning environment based on constraint filtering is proposed as the basis of an interactive design support tool. Using such a tool, human designers can be assisted in interactively developing and evaluating a set of schemes that satisfy the various constraints imposed on the design.

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