Introduction
The University of Rwanda (UR) in partnership with the African Center for Technology Studies (ACTS) held a one day applied workshop at University of Rwanda on the 25th of July, 2018 to mark the inception of the Knowledge Systems Innovation (KSI) project. KSI is a project funded by the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) through the East Africa Research hub with lead partners from the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), at the University of Greenwich, the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, the African Center for Technology Studies, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).