Research for development (R4D) projects increasingly engage in multi-stakeholder innovation platforms (IPs) as an innovation methodology, but there is limited knowledge of how the IP methodology spreads from one context to another. That is, how experimentation with an IP approach in one context leads to it being succesfully replicated in other contexts. To inspire development actors to consider the fit of an innovation methodology for a context, following work on anchoring for scaling, we developed a framework for networking-, methodological, and institutional anchoring and applied it to a R4D IP in order to test the value of such an anchoring approach for understanding the scaling of innovation methodologies such as IP. We selected a R4D project with a Farmer Research Group-Innovation Platform in Ethiopia, whose technical output and methodological approach were greatly appreciated by the actors involved. Using the anchoring framework, the executed or non-executed tasks were identified. Besides, the embedding of the methodological experiment the potential up-scaling and out-scaling were systematically analyzed. The analysis yielded the strengths and weaknesses of the anchoring work done so far to scale the innovation methodology used, and provided concrete suggestions of how to proceed if an innovation project considers ‘going to scale’. We recommend R4D projects to valorize their work and pay more explicit attention to anchoring. With a flexible, multi-pronged anchoring approach and continuous scanning of the progress made in context, more R4D projects and their associated innovation methodologies can ‘go to scale’.

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将创新方法锚定到“规模化”；指导农业研究促进发展的框架

研究促进发展 (R4D) 项目越来越多地将多利益相关方创新平台 (IP) 作为一种创新方法，但对 IP 方法如何从一个环境传播到另一个环境的知识有限。也就是说，在一种情况下对 IP 方法的实验如何导致它在其他情况下成功复制。为了激励发展参与者考虑创新方法论是否适合特定环境，在锚定扩展工作之后，我们开发了一个用于网络、方法论和制度锚定的框架，并将其应用于 R4D IP 以测试这种用于理解知识产权等创新方法的扩展的锚定方法。我们选择了埃塞俄比亚农民研究小组创新平台的 R4D 项目，其技术成果和方法论受到所涉行为者的高度赞赏。使用锚定框架，已执行或未执行的任务被识别。此外，系统地分析了方法学实验的潜在放大和放大的嵌入。分析得出了迄今为止为扩展所使用的创新方法所做的锚定工作的优缺点，并提供了如果创新项目考虑“扩展”时如何进行的具体建议。我们推荐 R4D 项目来评估他们的工作并更加明确地关注锚定。通过灵活、多管齐下的锚定方法和对上下文中取得的进展的持续扫描，更多的 R4D 项目及其相关的创新方法可以“扩大规模”。