Enabling innovation : a practical guide to understanding and fostering technological change

Foreword - Professor Niels Roling, Wageningen Agricultural University 1: Introduction: Why innovation approaches matter 2: The Palaeontology of Innovation: Lessons on Success and Failure from the paddy fields of Asia The flash dryer in the Philippines The flatbed dryer in Vietnam What happens when a technology is first adopted Conclusions 3: Seeing Inside the Black Box: Modelling early adoption (with Darwin's help) Searching for a good mental map Learning selection - analogue to natural selection Opening up the black box Conclusions 4: Blowing in the Wind: How 'bottom-up' beat 'top-down' for the billion dollar wind turbine industry Early history The Danish experience The American experience Conclusions 5: Open and Closed: Linux versus Windows Linux: Open source innovation Windows NT: Closed source innovation Conclusion 6: Uncreative Accounting: Local Exchange Trading Systems A brief history of money Alternative currencies Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) Conclusions 7: Food for Thought: Aftermath of the Green Revolution The Green Revolution: Buying time Biotechnology: Big Science's technical fix? Participatory Plant Breeding: a sustainable solution? Conclusions 8: How to Catalyse Innovation: A practical guide to learning selection The learning selection approach to understanding and catalysing technological change Advantages of the learning selection approach Where does the learning selection approach work? The scope of learning selection How to launch a learning selection innovation process Intellectual property rights and learning selection References Index