With the scientific team finalizing the ”Typology of innovation support services” AgriSpin is one step closer to recommending policies for Innovation Support Services.

On the basis of the typologies presented in this latest report by the scientific team, the AgriSpin project will be able to better characterize the existing types of Innovation Support Services (ISS).

The Typology

The scientific team has identified seven types of activities and four types of service providers.

The seven types of ISS activities are: Knowledge and technology transfer, advisory consultancy and backstopping, marketing and demand articulation, networking facilitation and brokerage, capacity building, access to resources and institutional support for niche innovation and scaling mechanisms stimulation.

The four types of service providers are: Private actor, public actor, farmer-based organization and third party (NGO).

Using this typology as a starting point, the AgriSpin project will be able to identify (1) the services provided to support innovation processes and (2) the combination of services and the coordination mechanisms to provide the services.

The Basis of Policy Recommendations

When revisiting the AgriSpin innovation cases, the typology of ISS set forth in the report will make it easier to answer questions such as: Which services were required? Which services are more useful? Which services are innovative? Who could be the provider? How to provide the service? What are the roles of the ISS?

The answers to these questions will in return create a basis for policy recommendations.

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Check out the “Please peruse the typology report to study the framework for the analysis of the innovation cases.”.

Read the “Synthesis report on selected and documented innovation cases for Cross Visits“.

The methodological guide which systematically guided the case identification and documentation process was based on a conceptual framework.

Peruse the conceptual framework and the methodological guide of the AgriSpin project.