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Item Diagnosing the scope for innovation: Linking smallholder practices and institutional context: Introduction to the special issue(NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 2012-12) Röling, N.; Hounkonnou, D.; Kossou, D.; Kuyper, T.W.; Nederlof, S.; Sakyi-Dawson, O.; Traoré, M.; Van Huis, A.The article introduces the diagnostic studies reported in this special issue and prepares the reader for understanding their full portent, not only as stand-alone articles but also as an expression of a research programme with a common purpose and scientific objective. As such, the article introduces the focus of the CoS-SIS programme on the nexus between farmer practices and institutional context, and primes the reader on the special challenges posed by diagnosis of this nexus. The diagnostic studies scoped the landscape and the regime but mainly as these might impact the niche. What is reported is 'the view from the niche'. The article explains the structure of the research programme and the role of the PhD researchers in it. It further describes a number of methodological issues common to all. © 2012 Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences.Item Looking at agricultural innovation platforms through an innovation champion lens: An analysis of three cases in West Africa(Outlook on Agriculture, 2013-09) Klerkx, L.; Adjei-Nsiah, S.; Adu-Acheampong, R.; Saïdou, A.; Zannou, E.; Soumano, L.; Sakyi-Dawson, O.; van Paassen, A.; Nederlof, S.The concept of an innovation platform is increasingly used in interventions inspired by agricultural innovation systems thinking, as a way of bringing stakeholders from a sector together to enable transformative change. An essential role on such innovation platforms is thought to be that of the 'innovation champion', but this role has so far not been unravelled. In this paper, by applying insights from management science to analyse three innovation platforms in West Africa from the Convergence of Sciences - Strengthening Innovation Systems programme (CoS-SIS), different types of innovation champions are mapped. The authors conclude that making a distinction among different types of innovation champions can be useful in identifying members for innovation platforms, but that the specifics of agricultural innovation appear not to be adequately captured by roles attributed to existing categories of innovation champions. Further research is needed to ascertain whether other categories exist, and how different innovation champions interact over time on agricultural innovation platforms.