What do you think?
11 October 2010

Research Into Use would welcome comments on the four new discussion papers posted to the website this week.

The papers cover diverse areas of the RIU portfolio. Amongst them are the first two papers written by RIU research fellows:

		Gender and agricultural innovation: revisiting the debate through an innovations systems perspective RIU discussion paper 06 Author: Ann Kingiri October 2010 (PDF 350KB)
		It may take a little while...:Insights on agricultural research for innovation and development in Nigeria. RIU discussion paper 05 Author: Utiang P Ugbe October 2010 (PDF 300KB)
		Putting Research into Use: A Market Failure Approach RIU discussion paper 04 Author: Norman Clark and Ian Maudlin September 2010 (PDF 100KB)
		Innovation Systems, Economic Systems, Complexity and Development Policy RIU discussion paper 03 Author: Norman Clark September 2010 (PDF 150KB)

Duncan Sones, from the RIU communication team, said:

"We are really pleased at the way that the RIU discussion papers and updates are starting to attract comments. The website is becoming the place where discussions happen. In traditional organisation these conversation happen around the water cooler, coffee machine or over lunch. This discourse and discussion is essential for a project like RIU with projects and staff scattered in over 12 countries and with very diverse extended partnerships. It helps use to know what we know and validate what we think."