a) It relies primarily on textual communication in different languages, though, to some extent, face to face interactions do take place in the experimenters' club/workshops. Similarly, there are other diffusion strategies involving organization of stalls in cultural and agricultural fairs; biodiversity competitions among school children, college students and departmental officials; participation in a few exhibitions; on-farm research, etc. These are, by their nature, extremely time- and resource-intensive, and thus limited in their reach.

b) The network, created at the Honey Bee central node and its regional language centers, receives queries from the farmers regarding some problems that they are facing, or comments on the solutions published in the newsletter. However, due to quarterly periodicity of the newsletter, the turnaround time of information and knowledge on different problems is very long.

c) The incentives for sharing information, in anticipation of a quick response and feedback, are few because of point b) above. Similarly, the pressure on scientists to respond to farmers' queries is also low. One consequence of communication lags in the Honey Bee Network is that the competitive ability of non-chemical technologies, over the chemical and environmentally-unfriendly technologies, goes down. Unless the response time is quick and the quality of response is rich, the ability of green innovations to compete and survive in the marketplace is much reduced.

d) In the absence of an electronic database which has the possibility of establishing contact between innovators, investors, and entrepreneurs (the golden triangle for rewarding creativity), the market potential of a large number of innovations is not fully realized. While the Web site does exist, the limited spread of the Internet in developing countries, and the even more limited knowledge networks in local languages, the triangle of creativity is not being formed.

e) In the absence of any registration system which provides incentives to grassroots innovators for disclosing their innovations, the intellectual property rights get exhausted, to some extent due to publication of the innovation. The textual registration system may not be conducive to the existing electronic systems at WIPO, or other patent offices which may agree to register various innovations.