Using an innovation systems approach to achieve remarkable change

We know that the people, animals and crops we often study are part of a system, and that affecting one part of the system inherently changes something somewhere else.

So we need to have a systems approach to our change interventions.

Yet we often approach our work in a segmented and disjointed approach by disconnecting the Research and Development from the Extension.

Worse still, we fail to connect with other key players in the system including end users, advisers, consultants, suppliers, producers, processors, transporters and consumers.

Whether you work in health promotion, natural resource management, agricultural production, or any project that aims to change people's behaviour -- you are bound to find this new approach to change worthwhile.

Join leading innovation specialist, Dr Laurens Klerkx, all the way from Wageningen University in The Netherlands.

In this one-hour session we discuss:
- reasons for considering an innovation systems approach
- role of facilitators/ brokers in this
- some of the remarkable outcomes from using a systems approach and lessons learnt so far.