Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group (KTI)
We study processes of socio-technical innovation and transformation. We focus on communicative and socio-political dynamics involved in the production, exchange, integration and use of scientific and other knowledge. We specialize in interdisciplinary research and design.
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Highlights
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Award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences for Phil Macnaghten (KTI)
On 15 October 2020, Phil Macnaghten, together with 72 other social scientist, has been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social... -
COVID-19, seed security and social differentiation: when it rains, it pours
Food security and seed security are closely linked, especially for poor smallholders in developing countries. The impacts of COVID-19 highlight the... -
Citizens collecting mosquitoes may be key in the fight against malaria
A year-long collection of mosquitoes with self-made traps and over a hundred volunteers in rural Rwanda reporting levels of mosquito nuisance revealed... -
African Philosophy wins Excellent Education Award 2020!
We are very happy and proud to let you know that the newly developed course African Philosophy CPT 58306, taught by Birgit Boogaard, has won our... -
New book by Phil Macnaghten: The Making of Responsible Innovation
Phil Macnaghten has published a new and concise book The Making of Responsible Innovation, published by Cambridge University Press, as part of Frank...
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Recent Publications
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Leveraging Digital Tools and Crowdsourcing Approaches to Generate High-Frequency Data for Diet Quality Monitoring at Population Scale in Rwanda
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5 (2022). - ISSN 2571-581X -
How responsive is Nigeria’s cassava seed system to farmers’ demand? Exploring supply and demand interactions in three farming communities
Journal of Crop Improvement (2022). - ISSN 1542-7528 - p. 1 - 26. -
The adoption problem is a matter of fit : tracing the travel of pruning practices from research to farm in Ghana’s cocoa sector
Agriculture and Human Values (2022). - ISSN 0889-048X -
Beyond the divide between indigenous and academic knowledge : Causal and mechanistic explanations in a Brazilian fishing community
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 91 (2022). - ISSN 0039-3681 - p. 296 - 306. -
Roadmap to develop a stress test for forest ecosystem services supply
One Earth 5 (2022)1. - ISSN 2590-3330 - p. 25 - 34. -
Spring phenology in subtropical trees : Developing process-based models on an experimental basis
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 314 (2022). - ISSN 0168-1923 -
Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation
Nature Ecology & Evolution 6 (2022)1. - ISSN 2397-334X - p. 36 - 50. -
Anticipating gender impacts in scaling innovations for agriculture : Insights from the literature
World Development Perspectives 25 (2022). - ISSN 2452-2929 -
Connecting science, policy, and practice in agri-food system transformation : The role of boundary infrastructures in the evolution of Brazilian pig production
Journal of Rural Studies 89 (2022). - ISSN 0743-0167 - p. 171 - 185. -
How have smallholder farmers used digital extension tools? Developer and user voices from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia
Global Food Security 32 (2022). - ISSN 2211-9124