Successful organizational learning in the management of agricultural research and innovation
Traditional innovation and extension systems seem to have become less effective, and new approaches and instruments are needed. To develop these instruments, all actors in agricultural innovation systems have to build up their innovation capabilities. The analysis of these capabilities, both in individuals and organizations, has received a great deal of attention outside agriculture. Innovation capabilities within agriculture, however, have barely been explored. Equally unexplored is the issue of how to strengthen innovation capabilities in nonprofit organizations that seek to alleviate poverty. This study contributes to these hitherto underdeveloped research areas by building a novel conceptual framework to analyze the dynamics of innovation capabilities in an organization that supports agricultural research, extension, and innovation in Mexico. Derived from a case study, the report