The participatory process gave farmers the tools they needed to make informed decisions through critical thinking and analysis and improved their confidence in explaining the function of innovations to others.
From a micro perspective, the functions of innovation systems knowledge and innovation generation, diffusion, and use need to be analyzed by considering individual actors as research objects.
The paper provides a link between two major streams of the literature: the functions of innovation systems and the literature on renewable electricity support schemes.
An understanding of how innovation based competition works is required, which means understanding the functions of innovation systems, the strategic fields of science, technology and innovation, how they are produced (key-actors) and how their markets develop.
Following a few authors [7, 37] who have tried to overcome this problem, it is here proposed to use the "functions of innovation systems" approach [38] for a future-oriented analysis of innovation diplomacy.
According to our best knowledge, we are the first to use system dynamics to (qualitatively) analyze and visualize dynamics between the diverse functions of innovation systems with the aim of enabling a better understanding of complex and iterative system processes.
Table 1 and the given examples of issues for potential diplomacy actions show that this analytical perspective with its detailing of the functions of innovation systems helps to develop a more systematic approach to the identification and mapping of innovation diplomacy actions.
Further, this paper offers an overview of the functions of innovation system approach, which provided the theoretical framework for examining the mAb innovation system, and analyses the innovation system of mAbs and the function fulfilment.
The other functions of innovation systems and also the different organisational levels present within organisations, such as strategic and operational levels [ 5], fell outside of the scope of this study.
