Innovation Challenge Funds
The RIU Innovation Challenge Funds aim to stimulate uptake of research results. Organizations in target countries submit proposals for adapting and using research results. Those that are successful set up coalitions or other partnerships with end-user groups and intermediaries such as farmer organizations, extension agents, NGO networks and policy makers. The emphasis is on action research, or learning by doing.
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“Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted by audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator’s lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.”
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