Guidelines+on+journal+article

Topic

 * 04 Impact of innovation platforms

Key messages
Decide what key messages you want to convey. Base the draft around these messages.

Possible structure
Length and structure depend on the journal targeted. Please check the journal’s guidelines for authors. Consider the following suggestions:

Abstract

 * A short summary of the whole paper.
 * What are innovation platforms? What are they used for? How, where and for what topics? Alternatives to innovation platforms for reaching same goal?
 * What are the problems in measuring the impact of innovation platforms? How to go about measuring the impact?
 * What did the MilkIT project do? How did the innovation platforms work? How did you go about measuring impact? What impacts could you demonstrate? Were the innovation platforms effective in MilkIT?
 * What can we learn from the MilkIT experience that might be useful for other projects using innovation platforms? What worked, and what did not? What approaches could they use in implementing innovation platforms? What should they avoid? Under what circumstances might innovation platforms be useful?
 * How can other projects measure the impact of their innovation platforms? Is it possible to use a standard way of measuring impact?

Another possible structure
This is a more traditional journal article structure.

Introduction

 * Background, purpose, review of the literature
 * Presentation of the findings, data, tables, graphs

Illustrations
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Photos
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Authors
Names and contact information (organization, email address) of the authors or others who can provide more information.