%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2018 %T From Importing Innovations to Co-Producing Them: Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Development of Online Land Management Tools %A Alex Baumber %A Graciela Metternicht %A Peter Ampt %A Rebecca Cross %A Emily Berry %K adaptive %K co-production %K collaboration %K decision-support %K innovation %K land management %K tools %K transdisciplinary %X While traditional approaches to innovation diffusion often assume that innovations come from outside a local system, transdisciplinary co-production offers an alternative paradigm in which local stakeholders are engaged as co-producers of innovations. The use of digital online tools for agriculture, conservation, and citizen science is an area of expanding opportunities, but landholders are often dependent on tools developed outside their local communities. This article looks at the potential for transdisciplinary co-production to be used as a framework for more participatory development of digital online land management tools, with a case study from the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. This research has implications beyond rural land management to other industries and contexts where reflexive and integrative strategies are needed to overcome barriers to stakeholder participation and engagement with new technologies. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 8 %P 16-26 %8 08/2018 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1175 %N 8 %1 University of Technology Sydney Alex Baumber is a Scholarly Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has undertaken collaborative research on a range of rural sustainability issues, including revegetation, bioenergy, agroforestry, wildlife management, and carbon accounting. Research grants include projects on Landholder Collaboration (NSW Environmental Trust), Low Carbon Tourism (CRC for Low-Carbon Living 2013–2015), Optimising Revegetation Management for Regent Honeyeater Recovery (NSW Environmental Trust 2013–2016), the Central Tablelands Agroforestry Bioenergy Project (RIRDC and DAFF 2010–12), and the Barrier Ranges Sustainable Wildlife Enterprise Trial (RIRDC 2006–2009). %2 University of New South Wales Graciela Metternicht is a Professor in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She has expertise and experience in land degradation assessment and monitoring, ecosystem-based approaches to land use planning, and sustainable development. Her prior and current work includes working with UN Environment, the UNCCD, and as a reviewer of major reports of the Convention of Biological Diversity and of the State of the Environment Australia Report 2016. Metternicht has experience in leading multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral projects in environmental assessment and management, including the Collaborative Planning Support Tools for Optimising Farming Systems (funded by the Australian Research Council). %3 University of Sydney Peter Ampt is a Lecturer in Natural Resource Management and Extension at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has expertise in participatory research, which seeks to integrate production and conservation, including as a lead investigator for the project Landholder Collaboration for Landscape-scale Conservation (NSW Environmental Trust 2016–18). His roles include manager of the Future of Australia’s Threatened Ecosystems (FATE) program and steering committee member for the Communities in Landscapes (CiL) project, which aimed at improving the management of Box Gum grassy woodlands under the Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country program. Ampt’s track record includes participatory research projects such as the Central Tablelands Agroforestry Bioenergy Project (RIRDC and DAFF 2010–12) and the Barrier Ranges Sustainable Wildlife Enterprise Trial (RIRDC 2006–2009). %4 University of Sydney Rebecca Cross is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has led the development of participatory social research methodology for the Landholder Collaboration project (NSW Environmental Trust) and has worked on several projects including Communities in Landscapes (CiL) (funded by Caring for Our Country, 2010–2012) and Mining and Biodiversity Offsetting in Agricultural Landscapes in Mudgee, NSW and the Burdekin, QLD (UNSW, 2014). %# University of New South Wales Emily Berry provided support for social research and coordination of the project Landholder Collaboration for Landscape-scale Conservation (NSW Environmental Trust 2016–18). She holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Environmental Management from the University of New South Wales and has also undertaken research into landholder perceptions of land degradation in the Far West NSW, private land conservation in NSW, and cultural land management in the NSW Central Tablelands. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1175