Extension Practice

Topic: Innovation

published - 29 April 2019
By Gavin Beever
An Approach to Encouraging Innovation

This program is a good example of using incentives to encourage development and adoption of practice change.  The Victorian Food Innovation Network is a Victorian State Government led initiative, to encourage the development and implementation of innovation in the food sector in Victoria.  A core element of the initiative is …
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published - 22 June 2018
By Dr James Turner, Gavin Beever
Co-innovation, a Way to Accelerate the Pace of Practice Change and Innovation

Co-innovation is a systemic approach used to facilitate and accelerate the pace of practice change and innovation. It has been used to tackle the more complex challenges and opportunities that agriculture is facing.
In this approach the problem or opportunity is put at the centre of the whole process, rather than …
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published - 5 September 2016
Diffusion of Innovations Theory – Adoption and Diffusion

The Diffusion of Innovations theory was the leading theory in agricultural extension post World War II until the 1970s.  It is still used today in agricultural extension, particularly when extension is concerned with an adoption of a particular technology (i.e. technology transfer approach to extension).
Rate of adoption is a key …
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Theory

published - 28 August 2016
Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS)

The Agriculture Innovation System (AIS) is “a network of organisations, enterprises, and individuals focused on bringing new products, new processes, and new forms of organisation into economic use, together with the institutions and policies that affect their behaviour and performance,” (World Bank, 2006:16) that is, the way different agents interact, share, …
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Methods & Tools