Other priorities include the links between health, food and the natural environment; improving the evidence base for public policy; and strengthening the capacity of research leaders in Africa and Asia.
This is made possible as a result of the capacity of research collaboration to bring the productive spheres of research and innovation into an interactive mode thereby ensuring that tacit knowledge is harnessed for growth and development purposes.
Thus, the nature of tacit knowledge and the importance of the knowledge to innovation make collaboration indispensable to the capacity of research and innovation to effectively and efficiently function as drivers of economic growth and development.
Monitoring indicators of key drivers over time, as well as their impacts, can build the capacity of research and development organisations to respond effectively in a rapidly changing context.
We propose a theory-based, qualitative approach to strengthen the capacity of research organizations to reflect upon the process of agricultural innovation and to manage programs so as to obtain greater development impact.
Efforts to enhance the capacity of research users to acquire, assess, adapt, and apply research were rarely undertaken by KTPs.
The process of developing a communications strategy can be a useful opportunity for developing the communications capacity of research partners.
The UK Department for International Development DFIDdefinesnes organizational capacity as "the capacity of research departments in universities, think tanks and so on to fund, manage and maintain themselves" [ 20].
These last include the capacity of research institutions, the momentum of research programs, funding opportunities and the influence of stakeholder priorities and public opinion.
Nonetheless, methodologies for assessing the KT capacity of research organizations are still in their infancy and until the execution of this study the authors had not come across a tool that could evaluate the capacities of research organizations (university, faculty, public and private research centres and groups), nor the obstacles faced in knowledge translation.
