What is an Innovation?
Innovation is the conversion of knowledge and ideas into a benefit, which may be for commercial use or for the public good;benefit may be new or improved products, processes or services.
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What is a rural innovation?
A rural innovation can be defined as the processes that take place in rural areas when knowledge, technology or information is made available and is put to use in socially progressive and economically productive ways by a group of linked actors (organizations/individuals)
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