{"id":140,"date":"2021-08-31T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/talent-fundira\/?p=140"},"modified":"2025-08-07T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:51:09","slug":"some-takeaways-from-my-researchs-theoretical-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/talent-fundira\/2021\/08\/31\/some-takeaways-from-my-researchs-theoretical-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Insights From My Research’s Theoretical Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Credit: World Agroforestry <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My research employed a new methodology that bridged three research perspectives including innovations systems approach<\/a>, entrepreneurship ecosystem approach<\/a>, and market system development<\/a> perspectives. Each of these perspectives provided a powerful contribution that enabled me to synthesise key learnings and bridge them together to identify pathways for entrepreneurship scaling and a framework for scaling legume-based agribusiness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insights from the innovation literature highlighted that<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scaling legumes based entrepreneurship requires<\/span>;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Systemic lens<\/a> that looks through all the players, identifies and work with relevant players with strong business models.<\/li>
  2. Capacity development to build key entrepreneurship competencies is an enduring factor that prevents premature business failure. <\/li>
  3. Research and development are essential<\/a> for new knowledge and innovations that are essential for legumes programming, new products, and services development <\/li>
  4. Specific entrepreneurship stimulating policies like tax incentives provides scaling legitimacy and guidance of search to legume-based products <\/li>
  5. A clear market focus with strong legume products differentiation and promotion is required to stimulate sustained legumes demand <\/li>
  6. Strong financial capital and human capital are essential, which necessitates partnerships and innovation platforms. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The entrepreneurship ecosystem approach also corroborates some key aspects for successful scaling as follows; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Local resources, networks, regulation, institutions, market conditions, culture, and resources including technology shapes the context <\/a>of entrepreneurship activities.<\/li>
    2. Successful entrepreneurship is often associated with a strong, easily accessible financial capital base, and with the presence of supportive and visible investors, and their networks. <\/li>
    3. Supporting entrepreneurship should secure or de-risk or blend private capital,  or make affordable venture capital accessible to specifically verified productive entrepreneurs and stimulate product\u2019s market demand. <\/li>
    4. Agribusiness incubation and acceleration programmes are fundamental for supporting entrepeneurs, and can be a powerful force and pathway<\/a> for scaling legume-based entreprises. <\/li>
    5. Developing core competencies for entrepreneurship management is fundamental to successful scaling.<\/li>
    6. Identifying and forming patnerships<\/a> with key mentors or advisors, associations, incubators, accelerators, private capita sources, government departments and strengthening policy environment is key for providing a suppotive environment for successful scaling <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Lastly, the value chain development or market system development perspective also highlighted the following among others;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. Sustrainable legumes value chain development should provide a clear business sense,<\/a> stimulate interest, and brings positive outcomes for all market players.<\/li>
      2. Multi-stakeholder innovation platforms<\/a> are key for successful entreprenurship scaling<\/li>
      3. Legumes-based entrepreneurship can be accelerated through product upgrading<\/a> (moving into more value-added products), functional upgrading<\/a> (increases value for money through tasks upgrading) and inter-sectoral upgrading<\/a> (upgrading into new value-added supply chains). <\/li>
      4. Targeting legumes value chain development has a great potential to emancipate and economically empower women as most legumes are women\u2019s crops<\/a>. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Some Useful References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        DEVAUX, A., TORERO, M., DONOVAN, J. & HORTON, D. 2018. Agricultural innovation and inclusive value-chain development: a review. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies,<\/em> 8,<\/strong> 99-123<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        KOIRA, A. K. 2014. Koira  AK,  2014.  Agribusiness  in  sub-Saharan  Africa:  pathways  for developing  innovative  programs  for  youth  and  the  rural  poor:   https:\/\/mastercardfdn.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        HERN\u00c1NDEZ, V. & PEDERSEN, T. 2017. Global value chain configuration: A review and research agenda. BRQ Business Research Quarterly,<\/em> 20,<\/strong> 137-150<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        LUNDVALL, B.-\u00c5. 2016. National systems of innovation: towards a theory of innovation and interactive learning. The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope,<\/em> 85<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        NEDA, E. K. 2020. Grain legumes production in Ethiopia: A review of adoption, opportunities, constraints and emphases for future interventions. Turkish Journal of Agriculture-Food Science and Technology,<\/em> 8,<\/strong> 977-989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        NICOTRA, M., ROMANO, M., DEL GIUDICE, M. & SCHILLACI, C. E. 2018. The causal relation between entrepreneurial ecosystem and productive entrepreneurship: A measurement framework. The Journal of Technology Transfer,<\/em> 43,<\/strong> 640-673<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        OSORIO-CORTES, L. E. & LUNDY, M. 2018. Behaviour Change Scale-Up in Market Systems Development-A literature review <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        My research employed a new methodology that bridged three research perspectives including innovations systems approach, entrepreneurship ecosystem approach, and market system development perspectives. Each of these perspectives provided a powerful contribution that enabled me to synthesise key learnings and bridge them together to identify pathways for entrepreneurship scaling and a framework for scaling legume-based agribusiness.  … <\/p>\n

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