Entrepreneurship as driver of a ‘self-organizing system of innovation’: the case of NERICA in Benin

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AuteurDALOHOUN, DANIEL NOUGBEGNON
Date d'ajout2026-06-02T16:06:57Z
Date de disponibilite2026-06-02T16:06:57Z
Date de publication2009
ResumeUnderstanding how an innovation system emerges and develops is critical to its promotion and to ensuring successful innovation processes. Unfortunately, research on innovation system approaches has neglected the interplay between innovation and entrepreneurship and overlooked focus on how innovation systems occur. Based on a unique framework integrating the innovation systems concept and entrepreneurship theory, this study uncovers a process of innovation system formation: a ‘self-organizing system of innovation’ based on a promising technology: the New Rice for Africa (NERICA). This finding highlights the pre-eminent role of entrepreneurship in innovation processes, thereby posing new challenges for development actors and opening up a new avenue for research into innovations.
Autre identifiantBECDB-6581
URIhttps://dspace.uac.bj/handle/123456789/5985
Languefr
Fait partie deInternational Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development
Sujetinnovation
Sujetinnovation system
Sujetself-organizing system
Sujetagriculture
SujetNERICA
TitreEntrepreneurship as driver of a ‘self-organizing system of innovation’: the case of NERICA in Benin
TypeArticle

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