The influence of exogenous elements on technological innovation system development: the case of rainwater harvesting for irrigation in Kenya

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cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Nairobien
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network NEWAVEen
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.creator.identifierThai Minh: 0000-0002-8345-6825
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH052670
cg.identifier.urlhttps://issr-journals.org/xplore/ijias/0040/002/IJIAS-23-188-18.pdfen
cg.issn2028-9324en
cg.journalInternational Journal of Innovation and Applied Studiesen
dc.contributor.authorSingh, R.en
dc.contributor.authorMinh, Thai Thien
dc.contributor.authorOguge, N.en
dc.contributor.authorOdote, C.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-15T10:05:24Zen
dc.date.available2024-02-15T10:05:24Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/139420
dc.titleThe influence of exogenous elements on technological innovation system development: the case of rainwater harvesting for irrigation in Kenyaen
dcterms.abstractRainwater harvesting for irrigation can increase sustainable access to irrigation and improve farmer resilience to climate change, particularly in semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa. However, attempts to increase adoption of rainwater harvesting for irrigation in Kenya have rarely been successful, despite decades of efforts by governments, NGOs, and development practitioners. Most scholars investigating reasons for these low levels of adoption tend to focus on hydrogeological, techno-managerial, or socio-economic factors, and leave out explanations grounded in the analysis of macro-level cultural, political, economic, and environmental dynamics within a specific context. To fill this gap, this article analyzes historical processes of two sites to identify how these dynamics contributed to an enabling environment for rainwater harvesting for irrigation in Kenya. The concept of technological innovation systems, which describes processes central to the emergence, growth, and diffusion of technological innovations, was used as a lens to examine long-term rainwater harvesting for irrigation adoption dynamics in the two sites. The identification of elements «exogenous» to the innovation system demonstrated that ecological, demographic, macroeconomic, political, cultural, and socio-economic elements exerted a major influence on the development of an enabling environment for rainwater harvesting for irrigation. Exogenous elements influenced levels of adoption by shaping the capacity and quality of elements within rainwater harvesting innovation systems, giving rise to systemic problems or opportunities, and influencing the speed of system development.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2023-08-01
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSingh, R.; Minh, Thai Thi; Oguge, N.; Odote, C. 2023. The influence of exogenous elements on technological innovation system development: the case of rainwater harvesting for irrigation in Kenya. International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, 40(2):397-411.en
dcterms.extent40(2):397-411.en
dcterms.issued2023-08-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY
dcterms.publisherInnovative Space of Scientific Research Journalsen
dcterms.subjectrainwater harvestingen
dcterms.subjectirrigation technologyen
dcterms.subjectinnovation adoptionen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectfarmersen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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