Overview: This course is designed for development actors in leadership positions who keenly wish to identify research gaps in global development challenges.

Description: Comprehensive Success Factors Analysis, or CSFA, is a powerful tool employed by the LASER consortium in the process of identifying critical research gaps underlying complex development challenges.

The main objective of this course is to guide leaders engaged in development through a systematic process to identify research gaps that if addressed could inform development efforts for a specific challenge in a specific context.

Authored by Joseph V. Sinfield, Romika R. Kotian, Akash M. Patil Purdue University, Innovation and Leadership Studies Program © 2020