Co-innovation is a process in which researchers work together with stakeholders to realise innovations of different kinds, such as combined technological and institutional innovation (Bossink, 2002; Dogliotti et al., 2014; Klerkx et al., 2017). Co-innovation goes beyond participatory and transdisciplinary research in the form of doing joint experiments, given that it is aimed at supporting broader changes in farming systems, sectors, territories and value chains.
Co-innovation is about collaboration, knowledge exchange, capacity development, convergence
and co-creation of ideas (Lee et al., 2012). The co-innovation approach involves iterative testing with the end users of the innovation, in which capacity development of all the involved actors is a key success factor of the process.