Transdisciplinary Innovation Research in Uzbekistan – one year of ‘Following The Innovation’

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina; Ul Hassan, Mehmood; Mollinga, Peter

Abstract

In 2008, a German-funded interdisciplinary research project in Khorezm province, Uzbekistan, initiated a participatory approach to innovation development and diffusion with local stakeholders. Selected agricultural innovations, developed by the project and identified as ‘plausible promises’, have since then been tested and modified accordingly by teams of researchers, local farmers and water users. This paper discusses the challenges faced in this process of joint experimentation and learning between researchers and local stakeholders whose behaviours, attitudes and actions are heavily shaped by the local context, academic discipline and hierarchical culture of knowledge governance.

Citation

Hornidge, A.-K., Ul Hassan, M., & Mollinga, P. (2011). Transdisciplinary Innovation Research in Uzbekistan – one year of ‘Following The Innovation’. Development in Practice, 21(6), 834-847. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2011.582085

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2011
• Deposit Date: Sep 19, 2013
• Journal: Development in Practice
• Print ISSN: 0961-4524
• Electronic ISSN: 1364-9213
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 834-847
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2011.582085